Sports

Gambia players boycott meeting President Barrow over bonuses

Ihesiulo Grace 22 June 2021 0

Players of the Gambian senior national team have boycotted meeting with President Adama Barrow due to a row over bonuses. Having qualified for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations slated for Cameroon, the Scorpions were scheduled to meet with the West African country’s number one citizen on Monday.

News World

Gambia declares state of emergency amid surge in COVID-19 cases

Ihesiulo Grace 6 August 2020 0

The president of Gambia, Adama Barrow, has imposed a 21-day state of emergency and nighttime curfew (10pm-5am) in response to a recent surge in coronavirus cases in the country. A statement from the President on Wednesday, August 5, said that the government had also closed the country’s borders and airspace. “All land, sea and air […]

News

Coronavirus: Gambia receives herbal cure from Madagascar as gift

Ihesiulo Grace 13 May 2020 0

The Gambia has received a consignment of Madagascar’s Covid-Organics (CVO), a herbal tonic touted as a cure for COVID-19, authorities said on Tuesday. The consignment was sent by Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina, according to the State House of the Gambia. It’s ”thoroughly disgraceful” for Nigeria to accept Madagascar’s Covid-19 cure-PSN “The

Banking Business

FirstBank boosts financial inclusion through digitisation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ihesiulo Grace 17 July 2019 0

Ladesope Ladelokun FirstBank of Nigeria Limited has announced its organisation of a Joint Seminar with sub-Saharan African Banking and Telecom Regulators to promote financial inclusion through digital innovations in sub-Saharan Africa. The event which was held in Lagos recently was themed “Advancing ePayment and Digital Innovations in Africa- Evolution of Nigeria’s Payment

Entertainment

Del-York Academy set to revolutionalize Nigeria’s creative industry…Partners with Hollywood instructors

Ihesiulo Grace 18 May 2019

Mutiat Alli – Lagos Del-York Creative Academy is partnering with award winning instructors from Hollywood, bringing them to Nigeria to lead an intensive month-long workshop. According to the Chief Executive Officer of the Academy, Linus Idahosa is part of its commitment to spur educational reform, thereby transforming the country’s creative education classroom theory

Africa News

My country will collapse if Nigeria withdraws its support – Gambian VP

Ihesiulo Grace 19 March 2018 0

Vice-President Fatoumata Tambajang of The Gambia has said that The Gambia would collapse if Nigerian professionals in the country withdraw their services or leave the country. Tambajang made the remark at a dinner organised for the Nigerian delegation to the 62nd commission on the status of women (CSW) at the Nigeria House, New York. The […]

Africa

Gambia’s President Powers gender balancing, swears in female VP

Ihesiulo Grace 11 November 2017 0

Gambian president, Adama Barrow have intensified discussion on gender balancing and equality with his recent appointment of a woman Vice president and her subsequent swearing into office on Friday 10th November. President of The Gambia, Adama Barrow, officially appointed Fatoumata Jallow-Tambajang as his vice-president. The president made the announcement via his Twitter

Africa News

Adama Barrow removes ‘Islamic’ from The Gambia’s official name

Ihesiulo Grace 30 January 2017 0

The Gambia’s new President Adama Barrow has removed “Islamic” from the official name of his country pledging more reforms in the tiny West African nation. In his first press conference since taking over as leader, Barrow said he would soon be overhauling government institutions to make the administration more effective. “The rule of the law, […]

Africa News

Gambia crisis: Jammeh given last chance to resign as troops close in

Ihesiulo Grace 20 January 2017 0

West African leaders have given Yahya Jammeh a final opportunity to relinquish power after Senegalese troops entered The Gambia. Mr Jammeh has been given until noon on Friday to leave office or be forced out by UN-backed regional forces. Troops have been told to halt their advance until the deadline passes. The Economic Community of […]

News

Seven things you should know about Gambia’s President Elect

Ihesiulo Grace 19 January 2017 0

Family Adama Barrow is 51 years old and married to two women. Both Barrow’s wives are from the Fula ethnic group. He has four children. His fifth son, died less than a week to his inauguration after being bitten by a dog. Job Barrow is the CEO of a real estate company called Majum Real […]

News

Gambia: ECOWAS Leaders Laments Deterioration of Security

Ihesiulo Grace 10 January 2017 0

Leaders of West African Countries who converged in Abuja to discuss he political impasse in The Gambia, rose from their meeting on Monday, expressing worries over the deteriorating security situation in that country. At the end of the Abuja meeting, the leaders agreed for a certain number of Presidents to meet the incumbent President of […]

Africa

UN ‘cancels Gambia army chief visit’

Ihesiulo Grace 16 December 2016 0

A diplomatic source has told the BBC that the UN has cancelled the head of the Gambian army’s visit to Gambian peacekeepers serving with the UN mission in the Darfur region of Sudan. Gambian soldiers this week occupied the Gambian election commission’s headquarters in an apparent show of loyalty to the outgoing president, Yahya Jammeh, […]

Politics

Buhari not a democrat, he lacks moral rights to intervene in Gambia, says Fayose

Ihesiulo Grace 14 December 2016 0

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayo Fayose has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s involvement in the meeting with President Yahya Jammeh to persuade him to concede defeat as an aberration, saying; “A man like Buhari under whose free, fair and credible elections no longer exist lacks moral rights to preach obedience to democratic principles to anyone.” The