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Nomination Begin With APRC Candidates As Electoral Commissioner Challenges Candidates

By MUHAMMED S. BAH Nomination has started at the IEC Office in Banjul with 7 APRC candidates going through the process with a clean bill...

Assan Martin Unveils Candidacy

By: Kebba AF Touray The candidature of one of the aspiring Independent contestants for the Kanifing Municipal Council Mayoral seat Assan Martin, was on Saturday...

P D O I S Public Notice Primary in Kanifing Municipality

The Central Committee of the People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) pursues the policy of mandating its ward and regional Committees to select...

Pa Sallah Jeng Withdraws From Banjul Mayoral Race and speaks out

The former Mayor of Banjul who stood and won on an independent ticket, has declared his withdrawal from the race for the Banjul Mayoral...

GPDP Holds Press Conference

By: Kebba Mamburay Gambia Party for Democracy and Progress, on Friday 2nd March 2018, held a press conference at their main political Bureau in Church-hills,...

APRC announces candidates for council elections

By: Kebba AF Touray 1 March 2018 - The Alliance for Patriotic Re-orientation and Construction (APRC), has issued a press release authenticating the nomination of...

Cabinet prefers both elections on the same date

The Cabinet has expressed its preference for both elections for mayors/chairpersons to be held on the same day rather than holding them on different...

Talib Bensouda Wins UDP Mayoral Primaries

By Yankuba Jallow Talib Ahmed Bensouda, was on Saturday 17th February 2018, voted in as the Mayoral candidate for the United Democratic Party (UDP), after leading...

Bye Malleh Wadda Steps Out of the Race for Banjul Mayorship

Mr Bye Malleh Wadda who had declared his interest to contest the mayor ship for Banjul has announced his withdrawal from the race, blaming...

Was The IEC Consulted Before Chairpersonship Election Was Re-Introduced?

Three months before the holding of local government elections, the councils are dissolved and management committees appointed to run them. This law is definitely...

What Is Holding The Registration Of New Political Parties?

QUESTION OF THE DAY: One would have expected that new parties will be making their existence known by now. The information gathered is that the...

UDP Holds Rally In Brikama

By: Kebba AF Touray The United Democratic Party yesterday, held a mass political rally at Brikama. The rally was attended by the party leader Ousainou Darboe,...

UDP Postpones Primary Election For Mayoral Aspirants

By Yankuba Jallow The United Democratic Party (UDP) has postponed the proposed primary elections to be conducted by the party for aspiring Mayoral candidates that...

‘Women Reduced To Mere Spectators For Past Two Decades’ – M...

By Kebba AF Touray The Speaker of the National Assembly Mariam Jack Denton, has said that over the past two decades, women have been reduced...

‘Voter Participation Pivotal In Conduct of Election’- IEC Chairman

By: Kebba AF Touray The Chairman of the IEC, Mr. Alieu Momarr Njie, said voter participation is pivotal in the conduct of free, fair and...

IEC Trains Security Officers On Forthcoming Local Govt. Election

By: Kebba AF Touray As part of their stakeholder training on the electoral process, the country’s electoral body, IEC, yesterday trained the members of the...

IEC, Stakeholders’ Training Begins

By: Kebba AF Touray The Independent Electoral Commission, yesterday 6th February 2018, started the training of key actors in the political limelight of the country, at...

GDC Unveils Mayoral Candidates

By Yankuba Jallow Gambia Democratic Congress yesterday unveiled their mayoral candidates for the forthcoming 2018 mayoral election for Banjul and Kanifing Municipality. Pa Njie Girigara was...

APRC Deputy Urges President To Be ‘Independent’

By: Kebba Mamburay Momodou Alieu Bah, a former Interior Minister and retired General of the Gambia Armed Forces, has been appointed deputy party leader of...

‘NIA’ Postpones Re-questioning Seedy Njie Today

By Kebba Jeffang The spokesperson of the opposition Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) party Seedy Njie, said his Monday scheduled interrogation by the...