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Barrow’s special delegate to attend Kofi Annan’s funeral
President Adama Barrow sends a special delegation to Accra, Ghana, to attend the funeral of H.E. Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary General, who died on the 18th of August, 2018, in Switzerland.
Led by Ebrima Sillah, Minister of…
GFF blames racketeers for Saturday stadium congestion
The leadership of the Gambia Football Federation has blamed the overcrowding of the Independence Stadium on Saturday on racketeers who they claimed have copied their tickets and sold it for “financial gains”.
Gambia played against…
NACCUG disburses over D1.5M mini grant fund to support youths
The Mini Grants Scheme Officer of the Association National of Cooperative Credit Union of the Gambia (NACCUG), Mr Saikou Touray has said his office has disbursed about one million, five hundred and twenty-two thousand, seven hundred and…
How Gambia’s former president may in fact carry a royal blood
One of Gambia’s leading historians, Dembo Fatty, has done an amazing research on the ancestry of country’s former president Yahya Jammeh that strongly suggested he may have descended from the rulers of Baddibou Illiasa.
Jammeh himself…
First Lady leads fact-finding team of medical consultants to EFSTH
The First Lady of the Republic, Her Excellency, Fatoumatta Barrow on Monday joined a group of medical personnel and educationists from Delaware, U.S. at a needs assessment exercise at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital in Banjul.…
OIC secretariat targets 395 limos for 2019 summit
The secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in The Gambia is targeting to acquire 395 limousines, 60 of which is expected to be bulletproof, in preparation for the 2019 summit.
The vehicles will be used to transport…
Gambia among 10 worst African countries for business in 2018
According to a ranking by an American business magazine, Forbes, Gambia is among the top ten worst business destinations in Africa for 2018.
South Africa clinched the first position on the index for best country to do business on the…
‘’President Barrow is clear about his priorities’’ – Tony Blair
After a closed-door meeting with His Excellency, President Adama Barrow, the Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Tony Blair - former British Prime Minister - told the State House media corps on Monday that…
Agric minister promises urgent action on gov’t ‘toxic fertilizer’
The Minister of agriculture, Lamin Dibba, has promised urgent actions to dispose of thousands of bags of ‘toxic fertilizer’ in state custody.
The Gambia government in 2009 purchased 9, 500 tons of fertilizer at a tune of 130, 800, 000…
MA Bah resigns from APRC
The last interior minister of Gambia’s former dictator Yahya Jammeh, Momodou A. Bah, has resigned from the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction party.
Bah announced his resignation from the party in a letter written to…