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Businessman Saho Jobe Incarcerated and Later Released from Mile Two Prison

A Magistrate Court in Banjul has on 8th day of March 2024 ordered the release of the Chief Businessman Saho Jobe, who was sent to...

Man Fined For Defrauding Land Buyer

By Louise Jobe  One Sutay Bah, a resident of Kunkujang Keitaya in the West Coast Region of the Gambia, was sentenced to pay a fine...

JAC CEO Accepts Local Councils Are Corrupt

By Makutu Manneh Mr Samba M.K Leigh, Chief Executive Officer of Janjanbureh Area Council (JAC), has told the Local Government Commission of Inquiry that Local...

VP Jallow Says Unpaid COVID-19 Fund of over D1 Million Referred...

By: Kebba AF Touray The Gambia’s Vice President, Muhammed BS Jallow, has told Lawmakers that unpaid Covid-19 funds meant for students amounting to a million,...

Justice Jaiteh Admits Some Cautionary and Voluntary Statements of Defendant Ousainou...

By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) Justice Ebrima Jaiteh in his ruling in the voir-dire trial involving Ousainou Bojang and the State, admitted some statements made by...

Justice Minister proffers amendment in criminal offences bill to replace cited...

By Momodou Jarju The Gambia’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Hon. Dawda A Jallow, has proposed the amendment of Clause 11 sub-section (3) of...

Alleged Murderer of Fatoumata Kargbo Appears at High Court

By Mariama MarongHaruna Tine, the alleged murderer of Fatou Kagbo has appeared before Justice Ebrima Jaiteh of the Banjul High Court yesterday Monday, 11th...

Lawyer Lamin J. Darboe & Kexx Sanneh File Case at Supreme...

By Yankuba Jallow Senior Lawyer Lamin J. Darboe, the Coalition of Progressive Gambians and Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx Sanneh) have instituted a case at the Supreme...

Teacher Admits Raping His Student

By Louise Jobe  Alasana Bah, a 42-year-old koranic teacher, has pleaded guilty to the charge of raping a 13-year-old. He appeared before magistrate Fatou Darboe...

Arona Tine’s Murder Trial Postponed

By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) The trial of Arona Tine, who is charged with the killing of one Fatoumata Kagbo, a staff of HM Bureau Exchange...

Stakeholders fill national assembly as Foni Kansala lawmaker presents pro-FGM bill 

By Momodou Jarju The Gambia’s National Assembly was filled to the brim on Monday as the member for Foni Kansala Hon. Almameh Gibba presented a bill seeking...

Police say illegally smuggled guns enter the country through the ports

By Amadou Manjang Cementing on the rise of gun crimes in the Gambia, the Public Relation Officer of Gambia Police Force, Binta Njie said the...

Gambia Investigating “Kush”

By Yankuba Jallow & Amadou Manjang The Gambia has collected and sent samples from people who used “Kush” drug to laboratories outside the country Dr Momodou...

NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT TO COMPENSATE VICTIM OF RIGHTS VIOLATION

The ECOWAS Court of Justice in its judgment delivered on 28 February 2024, held the Nigerian government liable for the violation of the rights...

Counsels to debate on voir dire in police shooting trial

Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) The prosecutor and defence counsels will at the next proceeding of the police shooting trial make submissions as to whether statements were...

Justice Jaiteh Compels Witness in Aisha Fatty’s Case to Answer Crucial...

By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) Justice Jaiteh ruled in favour of the defence counsel, ordering the witness to answer a question posed by Counsel L.S. Camara...

Key witness to testify in Abdoulaye Thiam vs Aisha Fatty’s case

By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) Justice Ebrima Jaiteh ruled in favour of the Applicant seeking to summon Mrs Aji Fama Taal-Gaye as a witness in the...

How A Court Bailiff Arrests 2 Found with “Kush” Drug

By Kemeseng Sanneh (Kexx) Kebba Ousainou Sowe, a court bailiff at the Kanifing Magistrate’s Court, apprehended two nationals of Sierra Leon allegedly in possession of...

Police Arraign Man in Court for Allegedly Killing British Lady

By Louise Jobe  Augustine Bangura, a national of Sierra Leone was on Monday, 26 February arraigned before Principal Magistrate A. Mendy of the Brikama Magistrate’s...

Government’s Domestic Debt Rises to D41.3 Billion, Says Governor Saidy

By: Kebba AF Touray The Governor of the Central Bank of the Gambia (CBG), Buah Saidy has said that government’s domestic debt rose to D41.3...