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Youth Parliament Tasks Government, Legislature to Revive Draft Constitution

By: Kebba AF Touray The National Youth Parliament (NYP) has tasked the Gambia Government and the National Assembly to take steps and explore genuine efforts...

Interior Minister Says Gambia Remains Hostile Ground for Drug Trafficking

By: Kebba AF Touray Yankuba J.N. Sonko, the Minister of Interior on Friday 25th June 2021, disclosed that the Gambia will remain a hostile ground...

Retired GRA Staff Awarded Certificates in Honour of Their Services

By Mustapha Jallow The Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) on Tuesday awarded four of its retired staff with certificates, cash and gifts, in honor of their...

World Food Program Hands Over Four Automated Weather Stations to Government

By: Kebba AF Touray The United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) with funding from the European Union, on Wednesday 30th June 2021, handed over four...

UTG Management Responds To Staff Association Admidst Strike Action

When the UTG Staff Association threatened to go on strike on Thursday, management issued a statement published below but this did not deter the...

NALA Executive Secretary Responds To Allegations By Legal Staff

By Kebba Secka Ahmed Kemo Ceesay, Executive Secretary of National Agency for Legal Aid in a telephone conversation on Thursday July 1st refuted some of...

7 Arrested Manduar Youth Released

By Mustapha Jallow Seven (7) youth of Manduar were finally released on bail from the Brikama Police station on 30th June and 1st July 2021,...

IEC Finally Allows Voters’ Registration In Manduar-Touba

By Mustapha Jallow Officials of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) accompanied by Police commissioners on Thursday allowed attestation for voters’ registration to take-place in Manduar-Touba...

Gambia University Staff Continue Sit-Down Strike

By Yankuba Jallow Staff working at the University of the Gambia (UTG) have started a sit-down strike on Thursday in demand of welfare and related...

NEVER AGAIN: The Manifesto of an Unlikely Candidate (Part Three)

By Baba Galleh Jallow Fellow Gambians, It is high time that together we all loudly say enough is enough and Never Again to the chronically poor...

Can A Court Inquire Into IEC’S Decision To Authorise The Mayoress...

QUESTION OF THE DAY According to section 127 of the Elections Act, “(1) Where and issue arises relating to electoral matters which is not addressed by...

UTG Management’s Response Staff Association

The hue and cry over the advertisement regarding the position of UTG Vice Chancellor has reached its crescendo. It is quite baffling that a...

Gambian Refugees in Senegal Ask Government to Respect Their Rights

By Yankuba Jallow Residents of Kerr Mot Hali, who are currently in exile, have renewed their call to the Gambia Government to respect their rights...

Calm Restored in Manduar

By Abdoulie Fatty The situation at Manduar village in West Coast Region has calmed now as mediation efforts by government and IEC officials and villagers...

Villagers of Busura Win Case against Alkalo of Talokoto

By Louise Jobe / Yankuba Jallow On 1st June 2021, the West Coast Regional Group Tribunal presided over by three Chiefs, decided in favour of...

EU, ECOWAS Donate Life Saving Health Equipment to Health Ministry

By Nelson Manneh The European Union together with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), on Tuesday 29th June 2021 donated life-saving equipment to the...

NCCE Engages Stakeholders on Peace, Security Challenges Relating to Elections

By Makutu Manneh/Mustapha Jallow The Nation Council for Civic Education (NCCE) has organized a national dialogue among security forces, youth, media and other stakeholders, to...

Lawmakers Consider Persons with Disability Bill 2021

By: Kebba AF Touray Members of the National Assembly on Tuesday 29th June 2021, considered the persons with disability bill 2021. The bill inter alia seeks...

Four Retired GRA Staff Awarded Certificates in Honour of Their Services

By Mustapha Jallow The Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) on Tuesday awarded four of its retired staff with certificates, cash and gifts, in honor of their...

IEC Edges Million Voters Target

The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) is getting closer to attaining its target of registering one million voters in the ongoing general registration exercise. A dispatch...