“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds” –Albert Einstein. (JollofNews) – As our traditional adage goes “ning-boroo mang meh, koomah-tuulal bukah-long” meaning if the race is not stretched, we have no way of knowing the real seeds from the chaff. It is exactly the case here. Oh[Read More…]
Opinion
The Falls And Fault Lines Of Michael Scales
(JollofNews) – Michael Scales has been writing several and varying seemingly interestingly though confusing signalled messages of late his bit on the Gambia’s yellow Versus Green” in which he compared the forthcoming elections “to the British Spring when all the yellow daffodils bloom and the trees hang out to their[Read More…]
A Citizen’s Query: Is NRMG Finish?
(JollofNews) – On April 26th 2015, the National Resistance Movement Group (NRMG) issued a press release. In the release as published on Freedom Newspaper, NRMG stationed itself as the main Diaspora civil society association, thus, “As a civil society organization, the National Resistance Movement of the Gambia (NRMG) strongly believes[Read More…]
What Pata Thinks: Why President Jammeh Watches Gambians Die At Sea
(JollofNews) – Every day, scores of lives perish in the deserts and the Mediterranean Sea. Hardly does a day go by that you do not read about Gambians dying trying to make it to Europe through the ‘Back Way’. It is devastating.
Go—Fund The Diaspora Or NOT?
(JollofNews) – I respectfully submit some quarters of our people, particularly in the diaspora, are using this “contribution phenomenon” to milk as much as possible from unsuspecting people to benefit themselves, while marginally they will not account for such contributions, nor would they entirely make such contributions available to the[Read More…]
What Pata Thinks: United Democratic Party Has Enough Of Jammeh’s Thuggery!
(JollofNews) – There will always come a time when an oppressed people will be obliged to push back against their oppressors, when they continued to be denied the ventilation they needed.
Your ABC And 123 Of Gambian Political Economy Part 3
Stakeholder Interests, Power, and Decision Making(JollofNews) – Properly functioning dispensation of public affairs takes into account and provides for all stakeholder shared interests. That is done with great fairness in order to ensure optimal satisfaction.
The Eumeu Sene Saga—Another Humiliation For Gambians
(JollofNews) – Once again, Gambians have been subjected to yet another humiliating embarrassment by no less a person than our own head of state.
Where Accountability To The Gambian People Stops And Begins?
(JollofNews) – As we all are aware, Jammeh’s rule is an event receding into the past, into Gambian history, and we all know there is NO statute of limitation on murders in any civilized society, since the existence of mankind.
What Pata Thinks: Indemnity? How About Your Conscience?
(JollofNews)- On 15th December 2012, former Bad Boy Rapper G-Dep walked into a Harlem Precinct, turned himself in after confessing to a cold case murder. G-Dep owned up to killing a young man on a botched robbery on 19th October 1993.