Thursday, March 27, 2025

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Gov’t Intends to Offer Loans to Students to Pay for Studies 

By Kebba AF Touray The Minister for Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology, Prof. Pierre Gomez, has told members of a joint committee of the...

FPAC Tasks OVP to Ensure GBoS Provides Payment Vouchers of D450,890

By Kebba AF Touray The Finance and Public Accounts Committee (FPAC), has tasked the Office of the Vice President (OVP) to ensure the implementation of...

NAO Says Last Soil Fertility Mapping Was Done in 1990

By Kebba AF Touray An audit report on the provision of farm inputs by the Government revealed that the last soil fertility mapping for the...

FPAC Says State House Rehabilitation Fee Resolved

By Kebba AF Touray The Finance and Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly (FPAC) has reported that the issue surrounding the State House rehabilitation...

NAMs promise to summon justice minister over unpaid funds allocated to...

By Mustapha Jallow  The members of the National Assembly Select Committee on Human Rights and Constitutional Matters on Saturday promised to summon the Minister of...

FPAC Reports on Alleged Fraudulent Activities of over D7 Million 

By Kebba AF Touray The Finance and Public Accounts Committee (FPAC) of the National Assembly has reported the alleged fraudulent activities worth over seven million,...

NAO Challenges Health Ministry to Ensure Full Utilization of Mental Health...

By Kebba AF Touray The National Audit Office (NAO) has challenged the Ministry of Health (MOH) to ensure the full utilization of the mental health...

National Assembly to Commence Committee Sessions

By Kebba AF Touray The Gambia National Assembly is gearing up for the committee meetings and sessions in the 2025 Legislative Year, which will commence...

Legislators Call on Government to Support Farmers to Overcome Poor Harvest 

By Kebba AF Touray During their closing debate on Monday, 23 December 2024, members of the National Assembly took turns to lament the poor groundnut...

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...

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...

National Assembly Endorses Appointments of Victims Reparation Commission

By Kebba AF Touray The National Assembly on Thursday, 19 December 2024, approved appointments to the Victims Reparation Commission. The August body made the approval following...

Parliament to Engage Environment Minister on Investigation into Kiang Kaiaf Mahogany...

By Kebba AF Touray The Environment Minister, Rohey John Manjang, is scheduled to appear before the parliament, today Wednesday 18th December 2024, to provide answers...

 Government to Establish Social Protection Secretariat with D200 Million

By Kebba AF Touray The Minister of Finance, Seedy Keita, said the government plans to establish the Social Protection Secretariat starting with a capital of...

Parliament Approves D37.8 Billion Appropriation Bill

By Kebba AF Touray Members of the Gambian parliament have approved a total appropriation bill of thirty-seven billion, eight hundred and forty-eight million, seven hundred...

Gov’t Proposes Threshold for Nonpayment of Income Tax of D3000 Monthly

By Kebba AF Touray The Gambia’s Finance Minister, Seedy Keita, has proposed in his budget speech that all employees who receive a monthly pay not...

Minister Says Case of Alleged Missing Funds at GPA Referred to...

By Kebba AF Touray The Minister of Interior, Mr. Abdoulie Sanyang, has disclosed before Deputies the case file of the alleged missing funds of D300...

Water Resources Ministry to Commission 55 Boreholes in February

By Kebba AF Touray The Water Resource Minister, Musa Drammeh, has told the Assembly that work is expected to be completed for the commissioning of...

Report on Appointment into Victim’s Reparation Commission Laid before Parliament

By Kebba AF Touray Justice Minister Dawda A. Jallow has laid a report on the appointment of members to the Victim’s Reparation Commission on Saturday,...

Agric. Minister Says Government in Process of Acquiring 180 Tractors

By Kebba AF Touray The Gambia’s Agriculture Minister, Dr. Demba Sabally, has told lawmakers that the government of the Gambia is in the process of...