Friday, October 17, 2025

Legal Affairs

Court Sentences Man to death for Killing Wife’s Alleged Boyfriend

By Lamin Fatty The Basse High Court has convicted and sentenced one Wurry Jallow to death on Wednesday 30th March 2022, for allegedly killing his...

Court Frees Marie Mboob

In Alleged Human Trafficking Case By Mariama Marong Justice Ademola Bakre of the High Court Annex in Banjul, on Tuesday April 22nd 2022, acquitted and discharged...

Nawec’s Fuel Theft Case Continues

By Louise Jobe The NAWEC fuel theft case continues at the Brikama Magistrate Court, presided over by Magistrate A. Mendy on Wednesday 06th May 2022....

Plaintiff’s Lawyer Tenders Ten More Documents in Court

By Nelson Manneh Lawyer B. Badjie, the Counsel for Momodou Lamin Jarju alias 'Rongo', on Wednesday 6th April 2022 tendered ten more documents before Justice Sainabou Wadda-Cisse of...

Two In Custody For Alleged Possession Of Suspected, Prohibited Drugs

By Nelson Manneh  The Spokesperson of the Drug Law Enforcement Agency-Gambia Ousman Saidybah informed Foroyaa on Monday 4th April 2022 that one Senegalese national and...

High Court Dismisses Momodou Sabally’s Claim for Nomination

Says it is without merit By Yankuba Jallow Justice Francis Achibonga of the Banjul High Court on Friday dismissed the application brought by Momodou Sabally. Sabally, an...

Lawyers for IEC, Attorney General Oppose Momodou Sabally’s Application Seeking Confirmation...

By Yankuba Jallow/Mariama Marong Lawyer Kebba Sanyang for the Independent Electoral Commission and Muhammed B. Sowe for the Attorney General have opposed Momodou Sabally's case...

Supreme Court Gives Reasons for Striking Out UDP Election Petition

By Yankuba Jallow Justices of the Supreme Court of The Gambia have given reasons for striking out the UDP election petition case. The court held...

Will The IEC Consider Section 96 Of The Constitution And Set...

QUESTION OF THE DAY The legal counsel of the IEC should give proper interpretation to section 96 of the Constitution and advise the IEC accordingly....

TRRC Holds Jammeh’s HIV/AIDS Treatment Programme Responsible

For Deaths of 41 Patients By Mustapha Jallow In their recently submitted report to the President Adama Barrow, the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) held...

Man Convicted of Theft at Airport Bank Branch

By Mariama Marong Magistrate Isatou Dabo of the Brikama Magistrate Court on Friday, 14 January, 2022, found 25-year-old Wagan Senghore  guilty on two Counts of...

Gen. Saul Badjie, Others to Appear In Court Today

By Makutu Manneh General Saul Badjie and co., are to appear in court today Monday January 17th 2022, according to cause list of the high...

TRRC Recommends Prosecution of Former President Jammeh, Dr Tamsir Mbowe

For the Deaths of HIV/AIDS Patients By Mustapha Jallow Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) in its report earlier submitted to President Adama Barrow, have...

DLEA-G Say It Registered Eighteen Drug Cases In One Week

By Nelson Manneh The Drug Law Enforcement Agency- the Gambia, (DLEA-G), has indicated in their weekly report that from the 8th to 14th of January...

Supreme Court Affirms their Decision on UDP’s Election Petition Case

By Yankuba Jallow The Supreme Court of the Gambia on Monday, 17 January affirmed their decision in striking out the UDP election petition case delivered...

Lawyer for General Saul Badjie Challenges Legality of his Detention

By Yankuba Jallow Lawyer Sheriff Kumba Jobe for Lieutenant General Saul Badjie and two others on Monday, 17 January challenged the legality of the detention...

Lawyers for UDP Fault Supreme Court for Striking Out their Election...

By Yankuba Jallow The Petitioners' (UDP) motion was dated the 10th January 2022 seeking a review of the Supreme Court decision against them. The apex...

TRRC Recommends for Ex-Prison DG, 5 others to Face Trial for...

By Mustapha Jallow Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) has recommended former Prison’s Director General, David Colley, Operations Commander  of Prisons, Ebrima Jammeh (‘chief...

Eyewitness Discloses Arrest of General Saul Badjie, Others

By Makutu Manneh An eyewitness at the Friendship Hotel disclosed to Foroyaa that on Monday, 10 January, 2022 around 13.00 hrs., armed military police officers...

DLEAG Nets Suspected Drug Peddlers in Diverse Locations

By Nelson Manneh The Drug Law Enforcement Agency-Gambia (DLEA-G)’s Serrekunda Field Office said they have arrested one Lamin Camara, a Gambian national and resident of...