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Gambia Registers 3 New COVID-19 Cases

By Nelson Manneh The Gambia has registered three new cases of the coronavirus during the weekend, taking the total number of COVID-19 cases ever confirmed...

Gambia Receives 50 Tractors as Support to underprivileged Farmers

By Makutu Manneh The Gambia has received fifty tractors, one hundred and thirteen farming tools and spare parts, as support to underprivileged farmers of the...

5-year-old Male Child Needs Help For Overseas Treatment

Nyima Sillah, mother of five-year-old male child, is looking for assistance to continue the treatment of her son diagnosed with tetralogy of fallot. She said...

EU Disburses D4 Billion to Support Government’s Covid-19 Response Plan

By Ndey Sowe H.E. Corrado Pampaloni, the European Union (EU) Ambassador to The Gambia, has disclosed that they have disbursed around four billion dalasi (34...

IEC Registers 191, 509 Voters Yet

The Independent electoral Commission (IEC) has indicated in a press release that closed to 200 hundred thousand voters have been registered so far. Below is...

EU Provides D85 Million Grant to Three NGOs in Gambia

By Ndey Sowe The European Union (EU) has funded around eighty-five million dalasi (D85, 000, 000.00) grant to three non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the Gambia,...

Council of African Descendants Push for Automatic Citizenship Bill

By Yankuba Jallow Members of the Council of African Descendants (COAD) have enjoined Lawmakers to come up with an Automatic Citizenship Bill to enable them...

36-Year-Old Teacher Seeks Support for Overseas Treatment

Dodou Badjie, a native of Banyaka village and teacher by profession, seeks support to undergo overseas treatment. According to Mr. Badjie, he was diagnosed...

Ugandan Police Summon Daily Monitor Employees in Libel, False News Investigation

Tabu Butagira, employee of the Nation Media Group-Uganda (Photo Courtesy from Media Focus Africa) Nairobi, June 4th 2021:- Ugandan police should immediately drop their criminal...

National Assembly Specialist Tasks Government to Examine Root Causes Of Poverty

By: Kebba AF Touray Sheikh Omar Dibba, Subject Matter Specialist for the National Assembly Health Committee, has tasked the Gambia Government to examine the root...

Are The Mayoress And The IEC Listening To Wise Counsel On...

QUESTION OF THE DAY All Gambians are now aware that one of the following documents is required before one could be registered as a voter. 1)      valid...

IEC CAN LEAVE A LEGACY

Guard Your Independence But Be Tolerant Of Political Party Scrutiny Those who delivered the 2016 results which led to the change of government through the ballot...

Banjul Mayoress Says IEC Gave Her Responsibility To Issue Attestations

By Nelson Manneh  The Mayoress of Banjul City Council Rohey Malick Lowe has said that the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) gave her the responsibility to...

Organization Urges Gov’t To Act Against Price Hike On Essential Commodities,...

By Nelson Manneh The Organization for Peace and Humanitarian Assistance (OPHA) has on Friday 4th June 2021 called on the Gambia Government to take steps towards...

PAG Points Out Some Hitches At Voter Registration Centers

By Nelson Manneh Peace Ambassadors-The Gambia (PAG) has on Saturday 5th June 2021, pointed out to the press some hitches their observers reported to have...

“There Is Nothing Of Greater Importance To Human Beings Than Knowing...

By Nelson Manneh Adelaide Sosseh, the vice chair of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) has recently remarked that there is nothing of greater importance to human beings than...

“Public Utilities Should Be Equally Available To Gambians” Says PURA Director...

By: Kebba AF Touray Mr. Yusupha M Jobe, the Director General of Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA), has said that the public utilities ought to...

NAWEC MD Says 685 Communities Will Access Electricity in 36 Months

By Yankuba Jallow Nani Juwara, the managing director of the National Water and Electricity Company (NAWEC) on Saturday, 6th June said they are targeting over six...

Youths in Banjul Call for IEC Revocation of Mayor’s Attestation Mandate

Youths in Banjul have called for the IEC to revoke its decision to authorise the Mayoress of Banjul to the citizenship of Banjulians. On...

Gambians Say Covid-19 Restrictions have impacted on their Right to Movement

By: Kebba AF Touray Scores of Gambians, especially women vendors, within the Greater Banjul Area, have decried that the Covid-19 restrictions impacting negatively on their...