(JollofNews) – Is there a greater crime than to threaten the life of a citizen to the point that such a citizen has no choice but to run away from his or her home? Have you ever considered how painful it is to be unable to return to your home[Read More…]
Opinion
Gambia: APRC Crimes: Terrorism Through Bad Laws And Abuse Of Office
(JollofNews) – It was William Shakespeare who said centuries ago that the evil that men (and women) do lives after them, but I would add that in fact the evil lives with them as well. Hence the evil done by Yaya Jammeh and his APRC National Assembly Members (NAMs) and[Read More…]
Gambia: Rapid Response To Madi Jobarteh
(JollofNews) – I disagree with Madi Jobarteh that someone or some system is trying to ‘disrespect’ Justice Minister Baa Abubacarr Tambedou by usurping his main and chief function. The executive is organic and no one ministry can or should act independent of the other. Roles and functions have meeting points-[Read More…]
Gambia’s Justice Minister Must Consider Resignation, If…!
(JollofNews) – First, President Adama Barrow took amendments to the parliament for changes to the electoral laws and on the age of the vice president and judges. A week later, the Minister of Justice Aboubacarr Tambadou, embarrassingly said he was not aware that there was a constitutional amendment being proposed[Read More…]
London Letter With Dida Halake: Ba Tambedou v Mai Fatty: Will The NIA 9 Be Freed Soon?
(JollofNews) -For those unaware this is what happened on 23 March 2017. First, Justice Minister and Attorney General, Ba Tambedou, called a press conference and criticised the haste with which the police investigated, arrested and charged the NIA 9 in the case of Solo Sandeng’s murder. The police are as[Read More…]
Gambia: The Traditional Role Of Women In Society
(JollofNews)- At home they are to do all sorts of household chores like cooking, washing, cleaning, harvesting etc. Role of women in society has been greatly overseen in the last few decades but now are coming to a more perspective to people. In the early days women were seen[Read More…]
Gambia: Government Need Clear Strategic Goals
(JollofNews)- Michael Porter; a Harvard professor and one of the preeminent strategic thinkers of this century; argued in his renowned work on the competitiveness of nations that; governments don’t create wealth but their proper role is to provide an enabling environment for businesses to flourish. “National prosperity is created, not[Read More…]
Gambia: Don’t Let Fake News Fake You Out!
(JollofNews) – Fake news is so real and so pervasive that already rings disturbingly familiar. It’s the production and dissemination of false information meant to influence the direction of our Gambian life by deluding anyone unsuspecting enough to swallow it. To our thinking, it’s a matter of championing a healthy[Read More…]
Gambia: Monitoring President Adama Barrow’s Country Tour
(JollofNews) – It has been announced that our Chief Servant Adama Barrow is going on a countrywide tour from March 23. The government press release said the purpose of the tour is to thank Gambian people for voting for him and to campaign for the Coalition candidates in the April[Read More…]
Gambia: The Untold Story Of Illegal Migration
(JollofNews) – Backway can be defined as the migration of people across international borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country. Africa has never seen such a flood of young men heading for Europe. The number of migrants crossing by sea to Italy, a top[Read More…]
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