By Abdoulie John All eyes are set on The Gambia’s Attorney General and Justice Minister whose office is expected to issue a legal advice to President Adama Barrow over the ‘poisonous’ fertilizer reportedly sold to Senegalese businessmen by officials of the Ministry of Agriculture. This is undoubtedly a litmus test […]
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Azerbaijani University Honors Prof. Kah
By Alhassan Darboe, GunjurNewsonline Professor Muhammadou M.O. Kah, formerly of The University of The Gambia and now Vice President of Academic Affairs at American University of Nigeria has been honored by ADA University in Azerbaijan. Professor Kah bagged a prestigious job as Founding Dean and Vice Rector for Technology and […]
Division Bedevils Serrekunda Market
By Abdoulie John Traders and street vendors at Serekunda market are not warming for better relations, with each group continuing to stand firm on its ground. Both sides claim their members move is ‘legally justified.’ The spiraling bad blood comes in the wake of crisis at one of The Gambia’s […]
The Constitutional Review Commission Is Unlawfully Constituted
It is the inexorable law of nature that every creature will succumb. Stated differently, human life is transient. In a limited sense, and in our geographic circumstances, what permanence there is belongs to the physical entity called Gambia and its betterment must therefore constitute our collective preoccupation. It is incontestable […]
London Letter With Dida Halake: Open Letter to Lawyer Mandela Darboe
Dear Lawyer Mandela Darboe, I use your earned honorific title “Lawyer Mandela Darboe” most respectfully – and I believe I was the first to use it on Kairo News and JollofNews when Bandit Yahya Jammeh murdered Solo and arrested you and your colleagues. I write this first letter to you […]
President Barrow Endorses Term Limits
By Abdoulie John Gambian President has endorsed the restoration of presidential term limits in his country’s constitution. “I hold the view that a two-term limit for head of state should be entrenched in the new constitution,” President Adama Barrow said on Monday as he presided over the swearing in ceremony of […]
UKJA Debunks Malicious Media Attack
The United Kingdom Jarra Association (UKJA) has debunked “malicious” online newspaper article that aims to discredit the association. In his response to an opinion piece on Freedom Newspaper, UKJA Chairperson Lamin Manjang, in the strongest possible terms, condemns the “article as malicious, baseless and pack of lies by a seemingly […]
We Aren’t Building 3rd State-Party
I must hasten to say that I utterly disagree with some of Mr. Burama FL Jammeh’s comments, analysis and above all, the comparison he had made on today’s political land scape in The Gambia to that of Sir Dawda Jawara’s PPP and Yahya Jammeh’s AFPRC/APRC eras. The fact that the […]
CANADA AND AFRICANS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
By Sainey Faye QUESTION : Did you know that Africans played a tremendous role in the creation, of what is today known as Canada.Few people know the role Africans played in building the country of Canada, in North America.The history of Canada is very much similar to that of the […]
Legal Action Filed Against Gambian Ex-Dictator
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Survivors of Bogus HIV and AIDS “Cure” Seek Compensation, Recognition of Human Rights Abuses in Gambian Courts May 31, 2018 – Three survivors of Yahya Jammeh’s fraudulent and destructive HIV and AIDS “treatment programme” have today filed a legal action in the High Court of The Gambia. Fatou Jatta, […]
Bensouda Gives Pragmatic Response To Presidential Ambition!
To quickly put an end to what has been seen as a calculated ploy by UDP [United Democratic Party] enemies to create a rift within the party, Mr. Talib Ahmed Bensouda, the Mayor-elect of Kanifing Municipal Council, has debunked some wild speculations. Some so-called diasporans were quick to suggest Mr. […]
Bad Blood Grips Immigration Dept.
Kindly allow me space in your newspaper to share these burning issues at the Gambia Immigration Department with your esteemed readers. The Gambia immigration Department has, of late, turned into Work Place “Molten Magma.” It is like a war zone where suspicion, sectionalism and factionalism thrive. It is a place […]