Airport fee! I support the government in asking citizens to contribute towards their own...
So many times we ask what our government is doing for us but hardly do we ask what we do for ourselves and our country.
Since news of...
SAMSUDEEN SARR – COMMENTARY: In search of President Adama Barrow’s Ecowas speech
Ever since my first assertion that President Adama Barrow of the Gambia could be clinically dyslexic, I have been adamant on it and trying to confirm my...
Full text of President Adama Barrow’s statement at Ecowas summit
Mr. Chairman, Excellencies Heads of State and Government, ECOWAS, AU, UNOWAS, Delegates, Distinguished ladies and gentlemen,
I extend sincere appreciation to the Chairman, His Excellency, Mr. Mahammadou Issoufou,...
The Day of Judgment is Here: Are you Ready?
Anytime I recite the “Salatul Ibrahimiyyah” which is recommended as the best way to send salutations and prayers upon the Holy Prophet of the Whole World Muhammad...
ADAMA MAKASUBA – OPINION: Ecowas Leaders Are Playing Chameleon Game In Mali’s Crisis
Ecowas leaders are playing a chameleon game in Mali's crisis and this is how they will keep failing in addressing problems in the sub-region. Ecowas leaders know...
MADI JOBARTEH – COMMENT: I Deserve a Better Government
By Madi Jobarteh
Honestly, Gambians, like the rest of Africans must begin to ask themselves what is the benefit of citizenship? What is the purpose of Government? Why...
Islamic teachers are citizens, too.
By Basidia M Drammeh
Like everybody else, Arabic and Islamic teachers in the Gambia are going through extremely difficult times as they struggle to make ends meet amid...
The “Sandeng Amendment Act” – A Replay
Some years back, I wrote on the National Assembly to legislate an act centred on presidential term limit in memory of the late Solo Sandeng. Given an...
BABA GALLEH JALLOW – STORY: The adventures of Alkatan
By Baba Galleh Jallow
Alkatan was a small old man, slight of build, but very healthy and very strong. He was cheerful and had a lively air around...
KEBBA NANKO: Mr Bub S Njie Needs the Most Basic Civic Education on Gambia...
In response to an article published on the Freedom newspaper and Fatu network, entitled “The Jawara Administration was a Moonwalk: shall we tell Papa Njie?” written by...
SAMSUDEEN SARR – OPINION: My Take in the Mali regime change
Having been inundated by demands from friends to sound my opinion in the current political situation in Mali, I decided to abort my initial intention of waiting...
The Jawara Administration was a Moonwalk: shall we tell Papa Njie?
It is logically incoherent to argue that politicians will only be noble if they stop seeing power as a reason for their politics. As head of a...
On Scholastic Aptitude and Natural Wit: Tribute to Imam Tafsir Gaye
It was the great poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who famously penned this reassuring truth:
“Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave...
TRIBUTE: Alhaji Imam Tafsir Gaye(1936-2020): Gambian Orientalist, Religious Teacher and Columnist
By: Hassoum Ceesay, The Gambia National Museum, Banjul
Last Sunday Alhaji Imam Tafsir Gaye died aged 84, and I lost another friend and confidante of twenty years standing....
ZKK – OPINION: The President’s Address To The Nation – Too Little, Too Late…
After days of relentless calls by concerned Gambians for the President to address the nation even though I personally don't see the need for it, he is...
Mali’s ‘African Spring’, a foregone conclusion, next are Ivory Coast, Guinea Conakry and…
Tuesday August 11, 2020 marks the resumption of public defiance by Mali’s political opposition parties following their ten-day respite in observation of the Eid al-Fitr, a nightmare...
EDI MASS JOBE – COMMENT: This is a unique opportunity to come together and...
Covid is a disease of the community, it is an existential threat against all of us and therefore we are all responsible for its spread or containment....
GAP – STATEMENT: Individual interest ahead of rationality for the public interest leads to...
The larger Gambia Action Party family under the visionary leadership of Hon. Musa Ousainou Yali Batchilly is greatly reduced to the kingdom of worrisome for the simple...
CITIZENS’ ALLIANCE – STATEMENT: Citizens’ Alliance COVID-19 Plea: A Call for Leadership and Unity
Fellow Gambians, on April 23rd of this year the Citizens’ Alliance called for a press conference, where we expressed our heartfelt sorrow and disappointment towards the Government’s...
On the Realities of our Current Situation: Letter to my President (Part 11)
Your Excellency,
I resume this series with great sorrow and deep pain. I had thought you had made the worst of your mistakes and therefore there could be...