By: Dr Alhagi Manta Drammeh (PGCerTHE, FHEA, FRSA, UK) Professor, Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education, UK I started writing this piece on Monday as I reflected on my country from the outside. I was distracted and could not complete it. I am compelled to compete it to see the sad […]
Search Results for "a"
The Gambia at a Crossroads
By: Professor Alhagi Manta Drammeh (PGCerTHE, Fellow Higher Education Academy, (FHEA), and Royal society of Arts (FRSA) UK Indeed, the December 2021 election in the Gambia will be both memorable and defining not only in our political consciousness and reality, but will also have far-reaching implications socially, economically, and morally […]
My Election Message to Gambians
Fellow Gambians, As our nation gears towards the December 2021 presidential elections, I wish to remind all Gambians, especially our voters about the importance of this election. Democratic elections provide civil opportunities for a people to collectively decide on the leadership of their affairs. In this case it is our […]
You Are Gambia’s Problem Not President Barrow
By Sulayman Jeng Hold your horses until you finished reading the article before marketing your emptiness. A Ugandan challenged as thus, “The biggest problem of” Gambians “is this illusionary belief that they could change” the Gambia “by voting a different person into power. It is this belief that all problems […]
The Gambia From Mob Justice to Criminal Justice System
By: Dr Alhagi Manta Drammeh (Fellow Higher Education Academy (FHE) and Fellow Royal society of Arts (FRSA) UK) I am no lawyer, but I think the recent incidents of banditry, criminality and the perceptions ordinary people may have about our criminal justice system warrant one to reflect profoundly on what […]
GPU Damns Assault of Journalist
The Gambia Press Union (GPU) condemns in the strongest terms the physical assault on a reporter for the online platform, Kerr Fatou, by President Adama Barrow’s photographer. Modou E. Njie of the Office of the President physically assaulted Buba Gagigo of Kerr Fatou who was covering President Barrow’s registration for […]
Putting Education at The Heart Of The AU-EU Partnership For A Better Futur
The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded the learning crisis in Africa by severely limiting access education. By early April 2020, the crisis had left more than 20 million pre-primary, 160 million primary, 56 million secondary, and 8 million tertiary level learners out of school with no access to continued learning and […]
Police Launch All-out War On Criminals
The rise in crime rate in the country has forced the Gambia police to intensify their strategy to wage an all-out war on criminals. The police effort to bring back normalcy amids heightened fears has started paying off as evidenced in the arrest and detention of gang suspects in Manjai […]
Dissecting Ideology And Political Allegiance
By Suntou Touray, in Political Sabbatical The assumption that people are involved in politics mainly because of advancing a singular ambition for an individual to be Head of State, and the total and complete worldview of everyone to be a follower who doesn’t have the ability to think and decide […]
UDP Leader Touts IGP’s Professionalism
The leader of the United Democratic Party Lawyer Ousainou Darboe has commended the former Inspector General of Police Mamour Jobe for rendering “great service to the Gambia Police Force, he served for many years as the head of the Police Training School and during the difficult days of the dictatorship […]
Thione Seck Recalled As “A Legend”
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Thione Ballago Seck, born in a family of praise or “griot” singers and one of Senegal’s beloved music stars over the last four decades, has died at the age of 66 in Dakar on March 14. Tributes poured in after […]
Barrow Mourns IGP’s Untimely Death
President Barrow mourns the untimely death of IGP Mamour Jobe His Excellency President Adama Barrow was this evening shockingly informed of the untimely death of the Inspector General of Police Mamour Jobe. Sixty-One year old Jobe passed away at the Medicare Clinic after battling a short illness. Upon hearing […]