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The Mayor of Banjul, Malick Lowe, has presented a cheque of D200, 000 to the President of the Banjul Sports Committee, Mr Musa Njie. This was disclosed in a statement by Lowe on Sunday September, 2022. According to Lowe, the generous donation is from an empowerment initiative. “Today I presented a cheque of D200,000 which […]
The Banjul Mayoress, Malick Lowe has commended the leadership of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and New York City over the success of the Year 2022 YouthConnnekt. In a statement on Friday September 16, 2022, Lowe also appreciated the Gambian leadership, especially the Minister of Youth and Sports, Bakary Y. Badgie, and the Executive […]
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has awarded citizenship to 286 United States and other nationals. This was disclosed in a statement signed by theSpecial Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, on Thursday September 15, 2022. According to the statement, the president urged the awardees to be good citizens of the country […]
The Gambia Police Force has announced the release of vehicles for public use to ease movement as the country’s transport union embarks on strike. This was disclosed in a statement on Sunday September 11, 2022. “The Gambia Police Force high command wishes to inform the general public that it will put some of the GPF […]
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has explained that Nigerians in diaspora cannot vote at the 2023 general elections because the National Assembly has yet to pass the bill. She made this disclosure on Thursday August 25, 2022, at the weekly Ministerial Briefing organised by the Presidential […]
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has commended the Nigerian Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos State, for sentencing Nigerian pastor, Pastor Erinmole Adetokunbo, who beheaded a seven-year-old Muslim boy, Kazeem Rafiu, and used his head for rituals in a church. NSCIA commended the judgement in a statement signed by its Deputy Secretary […]
Nigerian journalist, Bashiru Hammed Adewale Bashiru, has spent exactly one hundred days in detention. Hammed who is also the publisher of Eaglesforesight (https://eaglesforesight.com.ng//) was arrested on May 1 for publishing a “misleading” story about the Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun. An investigation carried out by MMC New York, the publisher of Parkchester Times, MCR, […]
The African Union has slated the celebration of its 20th anniversary for September 9, 2022. This was disclosed in a statement on Monday August 8, 2022. According to the statement, the Durban Summit launched the AU and convened its first Assembly of Heads of State and Government in 2002. Speaking about the 20th anniversary themed […]
Reporter: Modou Mboge Michael Ogugua, a Dakar-based business mogul, and 10 others have been officially made new Executives of the Nigerian Community in Senegal. . The inauguration of these new leaders took place on August 13, 2022 at the Old Nigerian Embassy in Dakar. In an interview with Senegambia Parrot reporter, the Ambassador of Nigeria […]
Ghanian Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has revealed that officers who die in line of duty will be replaced by qualified relatives. According to the IGP, the initiative is to compensate the family for the loss of their kin. Speaking at a lecture at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology […]
The Mayor of Banjul, Rohey Malick-Lowe, has cut short her overseas official duties to attend to emergency situation caused by floor in the capital city of The Gambia. On her return to Banjul on Friday 6th of August, Mayoress Lowe, with her team, visited the core affected areas of Banjul North to do critical assessment […]
The Gambian President, Barrow, has said farewell to the Gambia Commonwealth Games team. At a ceremony held on Friday July 22, 2022, at the Statehouse in Banjul, Barrow presented the Battle Flag to the Gambian Athletics Team representing the nation at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. The president applauded the progress of Gambian sports […]
The Justice Department on Wednesday has announced charges against three dozen people who are accused of orchestrating health care fraud schemes across the country, with laboratory owners and company executives among those accused of ordering unnecessary or fraudulent medical tests and equipment worth $1.2 billion. The defendants are accused of using telemedicine to obtain orders […]
The Mayor of the capital city of The Gambia, Rohey Malick-Lowe, has visited on Friday, July 15 Gambian victims of fire incident at 333 Twin Parks North West in the Bronx in commiseration with The Gambian Community in New York. “I want to use this medium to commiserate with the entire victims of the fire […]
Armed men have been reported to have allegedly killed at least 12 civilians in overnight raids on villages in northern Togo, where terrorists have staged several attacks, two local activists and a medical source said on Friday. Spared until recently by the jihadist violence that has ravaged its northern neighbours for the better part of […]
To curb the sale of new Army pattern combat dress/uniforms to unauthorised persons, the Delhi Police in coordination with the Military Police has conducted a special awareness campaign. The Indian Army showcased the pattern and design of the new combat uniform introduced for its soldiers on the occasion of Army Day 2022 on January 15, […]
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Wednesday, has urged youths to acquire knowledge not towards getting government jobs as there are no “jobs in government anymore.” He also urged youths to acquaint themselves with history to avoid making the same mistakes of the past. According to a statement signed on Wednesday by his […]
Three weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court has issued its monumental ruling ending the nationwide right to an abortion, New York Democrats are taking a leading role in sounding the alarm from Capitol Hill. Two members of Congress from Manhattan — opponents in a primary next month — are even holding back-to-back hearings on abortion […]
His Excellency Mr. Hissein Brahim Taha, Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has lauded the decision taken by the Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) during their Ordinary Summit held on 3/3/2022 in Accra, the capital of Ghana, to lift sanctions against the Republic of […]
Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan on Tuesday has apologized for the city’s dysfunctional rollout of monkeypox vaccinations, saying the city lacks the public health infrastructure and federal support to properly meet demand. “Today shouldn’t have happened,” Vasan told Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall,” in reference to the city’s vaccination scheduling website going down on […]