14-year-old boy dies at Quranic school in Basse as government vows action against...
By Adama Makasuba
The Gambia government has vowed to punish anyone found culpable in the death of a 14-year-old boy at a Basse Koba Kunda Qur’anic memorisation centre...
From ministers right down! Government bans overseas travel for ALL Gambia public officials as...
By Adama Makasuba
State House on Friday announced a sweeping ban on all overseas travel by public officials in an attempt to prevent the deadly Coronavirus from entering...
Barrow taps Kinteh for ambassador job as army’s two most senior generals now move...
By Lamin Njie
President Adama Barrow has appointed Masanneh Kinteh as The Gambia's ambassador to China, State House announced on Friday.
It comes two days after the president sacked...
Sacked army chief shows up at airport in full military gear as President Barrow...
By Lamin Njie
Masanneh Kinteh on Thursday showed up at the airport to receive President Adama Barrow as he returned the country from a two-country summit in Senegal.
State...
CES in deeper trouble as education ministry hands suspension to secretariat amid war with...
By Adama Makasuba
Ministry of Basic and Secondary and Education has slapped Catholic Education Secretariat with a subvention suspension amid a war with 700 teachers.
It comes two days...
N’Jeshwang women garden is latest land under dispute as lands minister is accused of...
By Sarjo Brito
The New Jeshwang women’s garden has become the latest land under dispute. For decades, these women gardeners have depended on this land to make agricultural...
Was Kinteh fired since last Thursday? Statement says top military leader’s sacking took effect...
By Lamin Njie
Masanneh Kinteh's sacking as chief of defence staff took effect on 5 March, meaning the top military leader was in fact sacked since last week....
‘Thank you for your service’: President Barrow sacks army chief Masanneh Kinteh after three...
By Lamin Njie
President Adama Barrow has sacked chief of defence staff Masanneh Kinteh, after three years in the role.
The powerful military leader was sacked on Wednesday and...
Barrow can’t stop laughing at Three Years Jotna as he says group abandoned campaign...
By Lamin Njie
President Adama Barrow has said Three Years Jotna unpacked the sack after realising it was heavy.
President Barrow said he tried to talk the group out...
‘Nobody knows if that person will ever be president’: Barrow uses meeting at Darboe’s...
By Lamin Njie
President Adama Barrow has called on Gambians to dry their clothes under a sun they have seen rather than chasing after something that may never...
‘My comments have been twisted’: Dr Ceesay clears air over claims he said village...
By Lamin Njie
Dr Ismaila Ceesay has explained that he never said somebody from the village could not be a president of The Gambia.
Dr Ceesay has come under...
Father suspects foul play in death of 5-year-old Fatou Camara and 6-year-old Omar Konteh
By Adama Makasuba
A father of one of the two children found dead in a Banjul deserted automechanic complex has said the ill-fated kids could have been killed...
BSIC Bank hands 40 cartons of sanitary pads to EFSTH maternity ward
By Adama Makasuba
BSIC Bank Gambia on Tuesday handed 40 cartons of sanitary pads worth over 50,000 dalasis to Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital in Banjul as part...
Madi Jobarteh says UDP should not be considered to lead Gambia if party fails...
By Lamin Njie
Madi Jobarteh on Tuesday ripped into UDP No 2 Aji Yam Secka over comments she made in CRR, calling on the UDP to come out...
President Barrow to fly out to Senegal on Wednesday
President Adama Barrow will travel to Senegal on Wednesday for the second Gambia-Senegal presidential council meeting.
Gambian and Senegalese experts and ministers on Tuesday started the second Presidential...
PPP leader Papa Njie lifts lid on how his decision to join UDP misfired...
By Lamin Njie
PPP leader Papa Njie has lifted the lid on how his decision to join UDP in 2018 came crashing back to earth.
Mr Njie, 50, joined...
Senegalese gendarmerie allegedly cross into Gambia then open fire in village which leaves one...
Senegalese gendarmerie crossed into Gambia and opened fire on villagers in Garawol Kuta, URR, The Point reported on Tuesday.
Witnessses told the paper heavily armed Senegalese gendarmerie stormed...
60 youths show up at UDP meeting and announce they are leaving President Barrow’s...
By Lamin Njie
Sixty youths appeared at a United Democratic Party meeting where they announced they were joining the party.
The youths showed up at UDP's meeting held in...
YALI 2020 opens in Ghana with five people from Gambia taking part in 97-man...
By Fatou MF Camara, in Ghana
The Young African Leadership Initiative Program 2020 opened in Accra, Ghana on Monday bringing together 97 youths from across the continent.
A staggering...
100,000 people to take part in massive Mandinka festival to be held in December
Mandîng N’kôlu Federation has announced it will be organising a week-long Manding cultural festival in The Gambia
Mandîng N’kôlu Federation is a non-partisan organisation established to preserve and...