Daily Observer Possibly Traded Illegally Since It Was Taken From Baba Jobe! When I briefly took over as MD of the Daily Observer between November 2007 and June 2008, there was a fight between Amadou Samba and myself from day one about the financial situation at the Observer Company. The […]
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Mr. President Dump Bureaucrats!
By Lang Barrow Mr. President please give priority to the most pressing needs of the Gambian people and the economy. Your success depends on forgetting about the long awaited so-called blue print from your think tank you have been talking about. They are too bureaucratic to produce any thing different […]
Barrow Assures Justice Security for All
President Adama Barrow today met with members of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. The Group operates as part of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. Chairperson and Rapporteur Houria Es-Slami said that the Group’s primary task was to assist families in […]
2 Gambians Succumb to London Fire
A Gambian mother and her daughter were among the 17 people who succumbed to for that engulfed west London block of flats. Mary Mendy (54) and Khadija Saye (24) were last heard from shortly after the fire broke out. The duo lived on the 20th floor of Grenfell Tower flat. Khadija’s friend […]
Daily Observer Closed Down
By Lamin Cham The Daily Observer, the legendary name in Gambian newspaper industry, which began publication in May 1992, has been shut down on the orders of the Gambia Revenue Authority, GRA, reliable sources told The Standard yesterday. According to our sources, the GRA officials moved in to lock up […]
Cabinet Identifies Priority Sectors
President Adama Barrow last night presided over the third Cabinet meeting at Fajara. Unlike the previous government, the current administration has been keeping the public abreast with what has been discussed and agreed. In the last meeting, ministers, among others, laid emphasis on the need to effectively communicate with people […]
Lawyer Badjie Bailed, Redeployed
By Abdoulie John The Legal Adviser of the Gambia’s spy agency was on Monday evening granted bail after he had been detained for 72 hours at Kairaba Police Station. The arrest and subsequent detention of Bubacarr A.M.O Badjie sparked public uproar, with activists calling for his immediate and unconditional release. […]
Falana Tells Gambia To Comply With ECOWAS Judgments
Solicitors of the Accra-based Media Foundation for West Africa have written to the Gambia government urging them to comply with the judgments of the ECOWAS Community Court. In a letter signed by Lawyer Femi Falana, the solicitors want their two clients – journalists Musa Saidykhan and Chief Ebrima Manneh – […]
What Motivates Kanilai Protest
Details continue to emerge on the whys and wherefores of the violent protest at Kanilai, the birthplace of ousted Gambian President Yahya Jammeh. On December 1st last year Gambian voters voted out their country’s longtime dictator and replaced him with President Adama Barrow. But Yahya Jammeh’s supporters have since demonstrated […]
My Take On Halifa’s Kanilai Position
The disenchanted Hon. Halifa Sallah has now become a populist and a puppet politician who is hell bent on soliciting for the allegiance of the Jola people, APRC supporters, and sympathizers following the recent unfortunate event that took place in Kanilai. As a mind reader, Halifa is praying for more incidents […]
Is Kanilai Not Part Of Gambia?
Where are the Members of our National Assembly??… Dear Mr Editor, Please allow me space in your newspaper once again to express my humble opinion and add my voice to the lots of voices of patriotic Gambians on issues surrounding Foni and its people, especially Kanilai. Perhaps, it is worth […]
Re: Some Facts About Lawyer Badjie
I think that calling Mr. Badgie’s character into question, primarily as retribution for his revelations, lacks political maturity. Who financed his studies, how he got into the agency, what he did prior to his appointment as the agency’s lawyer etc is not relevant. Relevant is what he wrote in his […]