President Adama Barrow has eulogized Alhajie Momodou Njie better known as Biri Biri at a National Tribute to the greatest Gambian football legend. Find below the President’s eulogy delivered at the Arch 22 in Banjul on Wednesday. Fellow Gambians, Family and Friends, It is with deep regret and a great […]
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Decency and Ethics in Politics and Public Life
In the wake of the Lamin Bojang saga it is necessary that Gambians pay attention to fundamental issues if we are going to create a society in which we create an accountable political leadership, a clean public service and generate trust and seriousness into politics. The narrative in the Gambia […]
Gambia’s Deep Rooted Political Problems
The Gambia Democratic Governance? Political problems of Gambia are numerous and many are deep rooted. These problems ranged from who we are as a people to the creation of modern nation states from colonialism to present individual (and/or collective) endeavors to improve livelihoods, and as well many in-between factors. Undoubtedly, […]
Tribute to My Educator/Mentor Shaikh Ahmad Alhagi Banding Drammeh
By: Professor Alhagi Manta Drammeh (PGCerTHE, FHA,FRSA, UK) I pay tribute to my teacher, Father, brother, uncle, and mentor Shaikh Ahmad Drammeh commonly known Alhagi Banding Drammeh. I have been learning from him for nearly half a century when he took me from my father Shaikh Muhammad Lamin Drammeh of […]
President Barrow Enthusiastic, Committed to the Armed Forces’ – CDS
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Major General Yakuba A. Drammeh has said that the Commander-in-Chief, President Adama Barrow is very much passionate and committed to the cause of The Gambia Armed Forces. CDS Drammeh was at the State House this morning to brief the President on the outcome of […]
Ba Marie Tambadou Resigned As AG & Minister of Justice
The Gambia Ba Marie Tambadou Resigned as AG & Minister of Justice Mr. Abubacar Marie Tambadou oversaw as follows: Mr. Tambadou served Barrow administration for over 3 years that not only maintained every law in the books that Yahya used to abuse Gambians with the exception of few but also […]
Welcoming the New Minister of Justice Dawda Jallow
I recall the days when Dawda Jallow was the head of programs at the NCCE where he had traversed the length and breadth of the country educating citizens about their civic rights and duties. Dawda was a constant face and voice on the airwaves on television and radio. I used […]
Language Enhances the Dynamic Spirit of Society
By Ebrima Kamara In these times of transition, no stone should be left unturned if beneath it could lie the key to our salvation. Language as an analytical perspective heightens the dynamic spirit of society while the notions of tribe and ethnicity reinforce division and construes society as static/primitive. Therefore, the […]
Departure of Gambia Attorney General
Statement by Reed Brody of Human Rights Watch on the resignation of Gambia Minister of Justice Abubacarr Tambadou to become Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals: Abubacarr Tambadou was the right man at the right time for Gambia’s democratic transition. Tambadou was the architect of Gambia’s far-reaching transitional […]
Covid 19: ‘a challenging period but Gambia united against it’ – Barrow tells Commonwealth
President Adama Barrow has told a virtual meeting of Commonwealth leaders on Covid 19 that the pandemic presented a challenging period for the country but the population is united against it. The Gambian president further informed the meeting that the country has registered over forty confirmed COVID-19 cases so far […]
No Black Man Is Immune From Police Brutality – Pasamba Jow
By Abdoulie John Barely three weeks after George Floyd drew his last breath under the knee of former Minneapolis law enforcement officer Derek Chauvin, the Vice-President of the US-based Democratic Union of Gambian Activists (DUGA), Pasamba Jow, has exposed the shocking reality Blacks are permanently confronted with in the United […]
Nullifying a Constitutional provision: why the Court of Appeal is wrong in Kharafi
If it can dance, M. A. Kharafi & Sons Limited (the Applicant) may be raucously performing the Rumba at the shockingly erroneous ruling of the Gambia Court of Appeal (GCA) in its case against the Attorney General, the formal custodian of cases against the State. In M. A. Kharafi & […]