(JollofNews) – Gambia’s new speaker of the National Assembly has vowed during her first media interview to remain impartial in her duties. Mariam Denton, who was elected to the top post on Tuesday, said she will use her position to ensure that bills sent to the National Assembly are properly[Read More…]
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Gambia: President Barrow Amend The Constitution On Age Limit
(JollofNews) – There are people who may live longer and be able to live at 80 or 85 and they are still not senile. Therefore, I would rather recommend an immediate constitutional amendment that will lower the limit of qualifications for judges, vice-president and president, leave the upper limit open[Read More…]
Gambia: The Roles And Scope Of Government
(JollofNews) – The civic debate on the roles and scope of ‘the government of a functioning independent democratic Republic of the Gambia’ in the 21st Century are no longer inescapable. 1) That at the dawn of independent nationhood we were more concern with sovereignty than roles/scope of government 2) That concept[Read More…]