One in every 10 Gambian adults is overweight or obese, with a higher prevalence in women, a new study published in the British Medical Journal Open has revealed. It said awareness-creation, discouraging harmful beliefs on weight, and promoting healthy diets and physical activity is needed to significantly reduce the high[Read More…]
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Alagi Yorro Jallow: July 22nd: The Enigmatic Yahya Jammeh Legacy (Part II)
A hundred years from now, people are still going to be talking about President Yahya Jammeh. He recognized that, as a poster child, he had become a symbol in which larger social, economic, and political forces were condensed. As a person, Yahya Jammeh lived in a way to anticipate creating[Read More…]
President Barrow Pays Tribute To Biri Biri
It is with deep regret and a great sense of loss that I deliver this tribute in honour of a Gambian legend, patriot, philanthropist and a football icon, Alhaji Momodou Njie, better known as Biri Biri outside The Gambia, who departed this worldly life last Sunday, 19th July 2020. We[Read More…]
Alagie Saidy-Barrow: July 22nd And The Beginning Of Evil
When they came, they said they were soldiers with a difference. They said they were going to get things right and head back to the barracks. That was the first lie. Yaya JAMMEH said politics is dirty. He became a politician. Then slowly he began betraying every member of his[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Mixed Reasons To Celebrate And Remember July 22 (Part 1)
There are reasons to celebrate the “July 22 Revolution” and simply remember President Yahya Jammeh. This may be with national prayers in Churches and Mosques to heal and reconcile a divided and polarized nation, to move on from the whole aspect of nation-building, or to give it a more positive[Read More…]
Demba Ali Jawo: Disharmony In Governance: Barrow Vs The National Assembly
The sore relationship that now exists between the Executive and the National Assembly does not seem to auger well for development in this country, and it is definitely not in anyone’s interest. It is only when all the three arms of government; the Executive, Legislature and the Judiciary work in[Read More…]
Madi Jobarteh: What The IGP Must Know! Lessons From Kaddy Jarju
It has been reported by FatuNetwork that TAF company has donated 100 rain boots to the Gambia Police Force as well as a big fat ram to Sgt. Kaddy Jarju today. Commendations to TAF for such leadership! By now what the IGP and the entire police community must realise is[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: The Merciless Death Of Moral Values That Promoted Yahya Jammeh’s 22-Year Rule
They say that it takes a village to raise a child. However, to raise a dictator and groom him for more than two decades in national leadership? That takes a whole nation. It takes a whole nation to remember, but also a whole nation to forget. The struggle over memory[Read More…]
Dedicated Gambian Traffic Officer Commended
A female Gambian traffic officer who was pictured directing traffic during a heavy downpour of rain was today promoted to the rank of Sergeant by the country’s Inspector General of Police. Corporal Kaddy Jarju who is described as a dedicated officer, was directing heavy traffic when the heavens opened. Instead[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: “Black Is Beauty “
Sene-Gambia needs to withdraw from every obligation in Africa and focus on a single and exclusive priority: declare a state of emergency on the issue of female skin bleaching. The Gambia and Senegal gave us Africa’s most famous celebration of the African female form and color in Senghor’s poem, “Black[Read More…]
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