Nomination for Kanifing Municipality mayoral race ended Tuesday with various candidates including two of the front runners, United Democratic Party (UDP) flagbearer Talib Ahmed Bensouda and Independent candidate Bakary Badjie pulling a mammoth crowd at the offices of the country’s Electoral Commission on Kairaba Avenue. Speaking to reporters shortly after submitting[Read More…]
Year: 2018
Gambia: Re-Immigration Department Seaports Scandal
(JollofNews) – Apparently, journalists are supposed to exercise due diligence before publishing a story. You need to verify, vet and double check before doing a publication. Unlike PaNderry Mbai, these are not his best practices as a journalist. He doesn’t mind to distort, misrepresent or change your facts to lies[Read More…]
Building The New Gambia With Madi Jobarteh: February 18 Is NOT Gambia’s Independence Day
In December 2009 Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara published his autobiography ‘Kairaba’. In Chapter 21 – ‘Forging ahead to greater things,’ Sir Dawda hinted that indeed the Gambia was not independent on 18 February 1965, rather, as he acknowledges, “while we had a democratically elected parliament and government since independence (1965),[Read More…]