Gambian President Adama on Wednesday announced naming of a new cabinet. The announcement comes after a cabinet reshuffle which sees the replacement of Vice President Dr. Isatou Touray and six other ministers. Read below the new cabinet line up announced by the government Spokesman Ebrima Sankareh: 1- VICE PRESIDENT IS […]
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Don’t Mix Apples And Oranges
Barrow Hasn’t Threatened Anyone Those reacting negatively to President Adama Barrow’s Monday speech are nothing but paranoid attention-seeking fear mongerers. The content of President Barrow’s address to Banjul Muslim elders was being ‘tongue twisted.’ Mr. Barrow spoke against those bent on hiding behind activism to create an avenue for civil […]
Halifa – An Iconic Pillar In Our Politics
Hon Halifa Sallah – Thank you “…true knowledge is fundamentally non-political and that conversely, political knowledge is not true knowledge.” It is widely believed that politics is a terrain that divides and polarises in many instances. I was among the toughest critics of Hon Halifa Sallah for many years. We […]
Revisiting the Legacy of Malcolm X
It has been 57 years since Malcolm X who later became Malick El-Shabbaz was assassinated. On February 21 1965, Malcolm was shot dead in the United States. He was a man who stood for the liberation of the Negro until his last breath. It is in this regard that we […]
Epitaph Ambassador Dawda Fadera
By Alagi Yorro Jallow Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un Immortals never die. As Tagore wrote, “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” Ambassador Dawda Fadera’s work shines on. I extend my profound condolences to the bereaved family, his […]
Old Man Musing
In loving memory of Dawda Fadera, Gambia’s Ambassador to the United States of America, former Secretary General at the Office of the President !!!!!! It was with much grief that we learned about the sudden and untimely passing of H. E. Dawda Fadera, former Secretary General at the President’s Office […]
Gambians Mourn Ambassador Fadera
Gambians home and abroad are mourning the sudden death of their country’s Ambassador to the United States of America. Ambassador Dawda Fadera died in the Gambia today after a brief illness. He was reported to have undergone surgery at Afrimed before being transferred to the Francis Small Teaching Hospital in […]
Police Findings On “Central Bank Scandal”
Investigation into a “case of alleged D155 Million Mutilated Bank Notes and D11.1 Million Bribe Scandal” On Thursday 17th February, 2022, the Police Force through its Fraud Investigation Unit opened a swift probe into alleged D155 million mutilated Banki notes cash deposited at the Central Bank with further allegation of […]
Tell Them It All Began In Africa
By Aniekpeno Ekong Tell them it all began in Egypt (advanced civilization, science, math, philosophy, religion, architecture). Tell them the first Egyptians were black, nothing to do with Hollywood movies. Tell them Christopher Columbus did not discover the Americas, that Mansa Musa, the Malian, was the richest man in the […]
I Stand With Gambian Teachers
Life Of A Gambian Teacher By Mmajink I woke up early, boiled water to take a bath and got dressed. I have neither electricity nor running water in my home because I do not matter as much as the ministers and the powerful. I rummaged through my bag to see […]
Colleagues Mourn Faal, Ndow
STATEMENT ON THE DEMISE OF COLLEAGUES The Association of Public and Environmental Health Officers of The Gambia (APEHOG) mourn the death of a veteran Public Health officer Mr. Kawsu Bayo and journalist Pa Modou Faal and Musa Ndow. The three persons died in a car crash along the Trans-Gambia highway […]
GPU Shocked and Saddened By Death of Faal and Ndow
GPU Shocked and Saddened By Death of Pa Modou Faal and Musa Ndow The Gambia Press Union (GPU) mourns the sudden death of journalists Pa Modou Faal and Musa Ndow. The journalists were among three persons who died in a car crash along the TransGambia highway in Soma, Lower River […]