President Adama Barrow, received Reporters Without Borders (RSF) delegation, on Monday, November 28th, at his residence in Mankamangkunda, URR. The delegation, led by renowned Gambian journalist Mr Pap Saine, the Dean of RSF in the sub-region, had an hour-long meeting with the President to discuss issues and challenges of Journalism.[Read More…]
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President Barrow Exonerates Basse Area Council
President Adama Barrow has laid to rest rumours Basse Area Council transformed the Samba Jouma Bridge to a toll bridge, imposing exorbitant charges on vehicle owners. Two weeks ago, the Chairman of Basse Area Council Foday Danjo released an audio in which he rubbished a report by a France-based Gambian[Read More…]
President Barrow Backs Women’s Entrepreneurship
President Adama Barrow’s nationwide tour came close to its climax on Saturday as the Gambian leader reiterated his support for women’s entrepreneurship. In Upper River Region (URR), he announced that up to 50 women will receive Women Enterprise Fund totaling D4 million. While acknowledging the role of women’s groups in[Read More…]
Barrow, NAMs Poised To Deal Gambia Last Blow – Madi Ceesay
NAM for Serekunda West has likened the Gambia’s economy to a bedridden patient, adding President Adama Barrow and his backers in the legislature are determined to deal it the last blow. According to Hon. Madi Ceesay, despite the country convulsing from economic decay, Mr. Barrow and his supporters in the[Read More…]
Barrow Accused Of Using Assembly As Weapon Of Destruction
Legislator Sulayman Saho has said President Adama Barrow is bent on weaponizing the National Assembly against the Gambian people in a bid to destroy them. The NPP-dominated legislature came in for sweltering criticisms after it augmented last week the salaries of MPs and the House Speaker. Despite his admission that[Read More…]
GPDP Goes To Congress As NPP Yet To Find Date
The GPDP of Henry Gomez will convene its biennial party congress early next month, JollofNews was reliably informed. According to sources, party delegates from across the country will on December 3rd converge at the Friendship Hostel in Bakau to knock heads together on issues, regarding the party’s present and future.[Read More…]
Mechanization Is The Way Forward – President Barrow
Gambia’s Adama Barrow has vowed to make the mechanization of the agricultural sector a reality as he received the prototype of a groundnut separating machine donated to him by a philanthropist. “This is part of mechanisation. Agricultural mechanisation will increase exponentially work-speed. The harder part of the labour can now[Read More…]
Barrow Promises Peanut Farmers Of Enhanced Financial Health In Few Days
Groundnut farmers can now look forward to the enhancement of their ailing economic health in little more than a week from today as President Barrow announced 1 December 2021, as date when they’ll begin to receive cash for their peanuts. Though the announcement was unilateral and unofficially made at events[Read More…]
EU Rep. Joins Gambians In Fretting About Crashed Draft Constitution
Gambians and their partners in development are still fretting about the jettisoning of the D116m draft constitution with the EU ambassador being the latest to describe the development as a reversal in the country’s yearning for sound democratic health. The man representing the member countries of the European Union in[Read More…]
Barrow Promises Affordable Fertilizer Next Season
After propping up the fertilizer price beyond the purchasing power of many farmers in the outgoing farming season, the Gambian leader is now going round the country, telling farmers they needn’t worry about the cost of fertilizer next rains. Despite the many hues and cries from the farming community, the[Read More…]
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