40 UTG students get 40% semesterly scholarship from UTGSU
By: Fatou Kebbeh
The University of The Gambia Students’ Union (UTGSU) has offered 40% of semesterly scholarship tuition fees to at least 40 less privileged students.
The move...
GFD calls for more inclusion of persons with disabilities in electoral systems
The Gambia Federation of the Disabled is the umbrella body of all registered Organizations of Persons with Disabilities in The Gambia which advocates the principles of Equalization...
Seedy Ceesay says NPP is more popular in West Coast than before despite winning...
By: Muhammed Lamin Drammeh
Despite the National People’s Party winning only two wards out of the sixteen wards they contested for in West Coast in the April 15...
‘Waste is wealth’: NPP’s Ceesay vows to recycle WC waste into energy
By: Muhammed Lamin Drammeh
The National People’s Party (NPP) candidate for the Brikama Area Council Chairmanship election, Seedy Sheriff Ceesay, has vowed to transform waste collected by the...
BCC goes digital with revenue collection
By: Dawda Baldeh
The incumbent mayor of the Banjul City Council, Rohey Malick Lowe has today, April 19 presided over the launch of the BCC digital revenue collection...
Islamic lecturer: ‘Gambia does not need a multiparty system’
By: Dawda Baldeh
Sheikh Musa Jallow, an Islamic lecturer at Tallinding Islamic Institute has stated that the Gambia does not need a multiparty system and urged the National...
MC Cham Jr: ‘Mayor Bensouda has a high chance of re-election
By: Dawda Baldeh
Former opposition Gambia Democratic Congress (GDC) campaign manager and now political commentator Momodou MC Cham Jr has stated that incumbent Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC) Mayor...
GAP National Admin Secretary Calls for Joint Campaign to End Corruption
By: Dawda Baldeh
The National Administrative Secretary of the opposition Gambia Action Party (GAP), Badara Faal has called on all political parties to unanimously form an anti-corruption campaign...
More women voter turnout in LG election, report shows
By: Dawda Baldeh
A joint report on the April 15th, 2023, councillorship election from WANEP-The Gambia in collaboration with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the National...
GYIN 2023 Award: 10 rural youth to pocket home €1000
By: Dawda Baldeh
The Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) has announced that their 2023 rural youth award will feature 10 best-performing migrant returnees, women, and youth start-up businesses,...
Driver allegedly disappears with employer’s vehicle
By: Dawda Baldeh
Musa Bah, a driver by profession and a native of Wellingara in the West Coast Region (WCR), has allegedly disappeared with his employer's “Golf Passant...
Activist deems IEC chair’s overseeing of forthcoming elections unconstitutional, urges him to step aside
By: Muhammed Lamin Drammeh
Coach Pa Samba Jow, a prominent Gambian political and social commentator, has called on the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, Alieu Momar Njie...
GDC accuses IEC of ignoring vote-buying complaints
By: Dawda Baldeh
Barely two days before the councillorship elections, the opposition Gambia Democratic Congress (GDC) has accused the country’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) of ignoring vote-buying complaints,...
Coastal Road Market fish vendors lament daily challenges
By: Fatou Kebbeh
In The Gambia, fish is a highly consumed seafood consumed by hundreds of families on daily basis, however, people who are engaged in the business...
UTG graduates fear taint on degree credibility amid sex for grades scandal
By: Lolly Sowe
Following the emergence of shocking allegations of sex for grade scandal at the University of The Gambia, The Fatu Network has engaged some students who...
COVID-19 delays population, housing census
The Gambia Bureau of Statistics (GBoS) has confirmed the 2023 Population and Housing Census, which was earlier scheduled for April 2023, is now rescheduled to November of...
Majority of Gambians convinced of govt’s commitment to implement TRRC recommendations
By: Ousman Saidykhan
Fifty-five (55%) of Gambians have agreed that the government has shown a strong commitment to implement the recommendations of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission...
Unavailability of prosecution counsel delays coup trial
By: Ousman Saidykhan
The coup trial involving four soldiers and a police officer could not proceed at the Banjul High Court due to the prosecution seeking an adjournment,...
Former GDC Diaspora PRO Endorses Talib Bensouda Ahead of LG Elections
By: Dawda Baldeh
Dodou A.B. Ndow, former opposition Gambia Democratic Congress (GDC) Diaspora Public Relations Officer (PRO) has endorsed the re-election of incumbent Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC) Mayor...
Sare Talata Alkalo summoned to retract comments against Dou Sanno, source tells TFN
By: Dawda Baldeh
A source close to the office of the Upper River Region (URR) Governor has disclosed to The Fatu Network that the Alkalo of Sare Talata...