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UTG Longest Serving Cleaner Opens Up on Career Hurdles As Documentary...

Haddy Jatta, 68, has been a cleaner at the University of The Gambia (UTG), since its inception in 1999. Jatta has worked under different university...

HOW IS THE CRISIS IN UTG BEING HANDLED?

An orderly society requires courts, alternative dispute resolution, bar association and unions aimed at promoting rights and justice as the situation demands. Grievances at...

MAMUDFANA CPMS HANGING ON THE BALANCE OF TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY

The National Food Security Processing and Marketing Corporation (NFSPMC) (commonly called GGC) claims that D40 million dalasi could not be recovered from many seccos...

FACTSHEET: How Did Food Prices in Gambia Soar from 2020-2024?

By Nelson Manneh Year-on-year food prices in The Gambia continue to increase, they hardly drop or stagnant for at least a year – as observed...

Food prices in The Gambia: Ousmaila Joof’s official inflation rates and...

By Nelson Manneh The Gambia Trade Minister, Baboucarr Ousmaila Joof, has stirred controversy by claiming that the prices of essential commodities in the country have been stable for...

FALSE! FGM Has Profound Health Implications For Women, Girls

By Nelson Manneh Claim: A religious leader in The Gambia, Imam Abdoulie Fatty, asserted that female genital mutilation (FGM) has no health implications. Verdict: This claim...

Inside Gambia’s Transitional Justice Project 

By Yankuba Jallow The Gambia in 2017 embarked on an ambitious project to investigate past human rights violations committed during the 22-year repressive regime of...

Justice Minister to Introduce the Constitution (Promulgation) Bill 2024

By Kebba AF Touray The Minister of Justice, Dawda Jallow, is scheduled to introduce the 2024 promulgation bill during the Fourth Ordinary Session of the...

Public Institutions Reminded to Submit Financial Statements by March

By Kebba AF Touray The Office of the Auditor General (AG) has reminded public institutions to submit their financial statements by 31st March 2025. The reminder...

MRCG Assures Continuity of ‘Essential Services’ Amid Recent Industrial Action

Following a recent sit-down strike by the Workers Union of the Medical Research Council Unit of The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene...

Gambia, Senegal Renew Bilateral Ties

By Makutu Manneh  Upon receiving Ousmane Sonko, the Prime Minister of Senegal at State House on Friday 20th December 2024, President Adama Barrow said Gambia...

Leadership Dispute Undermines Purchase of Nuts at Mamud Fanna ‘Secco’

By Assan Bah  A leadership crisis has emerged at the Mamud Fanna Secco in CRR South, with two individuals, Alagie Samba Mbye and Sarra Nyass,...

THE FIRST READING OF THE CONSTITUTION (PROMULGATION) BILL

At last, the National Assembly is to have a second chance in exercising oversight on a matter that is the lifeblood of a republic....

IS THERE ANY INTERFERENCE IN ISSUING OF SECCO LICENCES BY THE...

Foroyaa is investigating the unique case where a certificate was issued by the Department of Cooperative Development only for the certificate to be withdrawn....

“KMC Could Have Saved D32.2 Million from “Mbalit” Trucks”

By Makutu Manneh Fatoumata Saho-Cham, a former Procurement Manager has testified before the Local Government Commission of Inquiry that the Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC) could...

THE GROUNDNUT TRADE NEEDS SUPERVISION 

This paper is receiving information on the groundnut trade that is unsatisfactory and difficult to comprehend. Farmers are already complaining of the failure of...

National Assembly Pays Tribute to Outgoing Clerk 

By Kebba AF Touray The National Assembly on Thursday, 19 December 2024 paid tribute to the Outgoing Clerk, Hon. Momodou A Sise, as he retires...

TANGO Holds Conference for CSOs to Reflect on 2024 Activities

By Amadou Manjang The Association of Non- Non-Governmental Organisations (TANGO) yesterday, 19 December 2024, organised a day-long engagement conference for Civil Society Organizations across the...

MoHERST Intends to Establish Annex of University of Education in Jarra Soma

By Amadou Manjang The Minister of Higher Education Research Science and Technology, (MOHERST), Prof. Pierre Gomez, recently stated that it is part of his Ministry’s...

MRCG Clinical Service Departmnet Resume Operation

By Assan Bah The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia (MRCG) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, on Thursday December 19, 2024...