The signature song of the UDP Alee Fon N Saa Jee has started reverberating across the Kanifing Municipality as Gambia’s biggest opposition party’s leader prepares to leave the coast for the hinterland later today. The rallying song is alongside other delightful mixed-cultural tunes blaring across the region as mass mobilization[Read More…]
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WB Okays Extra $20M Grant To Plug Gambia’s Unforseen Financing Gap
A Supplemental Financing for the Gambia’s Second Fiscal Management, Energy and Telecom Reform Development Policy Financing (DPF) at the tune of $20m was on Wednesday approved by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors, this medium has gathered. The idea is to support government’s interventions to enhance debt and public[Read More…]
Gambia Endorses AU Convention On Cybersecurity, Data Protection
The Gambia has signed on Friday the African Union (AU) Convention on Cybersecurity and Data Protection during a ceremony held at the continental body headquarter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The government’s move comes barely two weeks after the central bank was targeted by hackers in an unprecedented cyber attack. “It[Read More…]
Gambia: Barrow Unveils Pharaonic Project In Faraba Banta
The Gambian leader wrapped up Wednesday the first phase of the 2022 ‘Meet The People Tour’ with a stop at Faraba Banta Campus, University of The Gambia (UTG) in West Coast Region (WCR). The on-site visit was used by President Barrow to interact with engineers working on the mammoth undertaking[Read More…]
Gambia: Barrow To Travel To Nigeria Saturday
President Adama Barrow will travel to Nigeria on Saturday to attend the 62nd ECOWAS Ordinary Session of Heads of State and Government on Sunday, announced the Presidency today. According to No. 1 Marina Parade, the President and delegation will depart the Banjul International Airport on Saturday at midday.
Can Balla Really Wrestle Rohey Down In Banjul Lambaji?
Son of one of the Gambia’s pre and post-independence politicians is preparing the ground for an onslaught on the Banjul City Council (BCC). Son of prominent politician Ibrahim Garba Jahumpa, Balla Garba Jahumpa is now marshalling every tool in his took box and all arms and ammunition in his arsenal[Read More…]
So, This ID Card Fraud Claim Is Not ‘Preposterous Or Fatally False’?
More than 24 hours after a Senegalese MP made a stunning revelation that Gambian ID cards were free for all in some Senegalese border communities during election seasons, government of The Gambia has yet to come up with any fitting counter-narrative. So, we assume this claim by MP Oumar Ceesay[Read More…]
Gov’t To Sink Over 20 Boreholes In URR – Minister
As water poverty deepens in the Upper River Region of The Gambia, the country’s minister of water resources has made an undertaking for the sinking of more than 20 boreholes in the region. Several communities in the upper reaches of The Gambia are grappling with water stress but Hon. Musa[Read More…]
Madi Ceesay To Lead Front Against Abuse Of Legislature
Opposition MP Madi Ceesay is now battle ready to lead a front against the use of the Gambia’s legislature to sporadically increase salaries of the executive and senior cadre of the civil service. The Serekunda West NAM told Coffee Time With Peter Gomez this morning that plundering of public coffers[Read More…]
Speaker Deserves Fitting House – NPP’s Mbowe
NPP’s Alhagie Mbowe has apparently found no issue with the Gambia’s National Assembly giving the House Speaker an attractive salary and allowance package, telling Coffee Time that the Speaker deserves to live as a man of his station. He added that legislators also deserve robbing allowance to enable them keep[Read More…]
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