What is the purpose of education? To make good individuals or produce citizens? Has our schooling system, from independence to date, given us the education we need? Has it made us good individuals or prepared us as useful citizens? A good individual may not necessarily be regarded as a useful[Read More…]
Year: 2017
Gambia Sticks Two Fingers At Donald Trump
The Gambia, one of the smallest country in mainly Africa, Thursday bravely voted in favour of a United Nation’s General Assembly resolution effectively calling on the US to withdraw its recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The Gambia is among 127 countries that decisively said yes to the[Read More…]
US Slaps Sanctions On Ex-President Yahya Jammeh
(JollofNews) – The US on Thursday announced it has sanctioned former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh under a 2016 human rights law. A press release from the Treasury Department notes the Trump administration has used the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act that former President Obama signed in 2016 to freeze[Read More…]