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July 15, 2023 No Responses

Access Bank To Acquire Standard Chartered Subsidiaries In Angola, Gambia, Three Others

Access Bank Plc has concluded an arrangement to acquire the sub-saharan subsidiaries of Standard Chartered Bank. Under the arrangement, Standard Chartered will sell its shareholding in its subsidiaries in Angola, Cameroon, Gambia and Sierra Leone to Access Bank as well...

April 6, 2021 No Responses

Ibom Air To Extend Flight To Gambia

Governor of Akwa Ibom, Udom Emmanuel of has disclosed that Ibom Air, the State-owned Airline, will extend its flight operations to the Gambia and other West African countries. Emmanuel said this when the Gambian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Moha...

October 14, 2019 No Responses

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L-R: Director, Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs The Gambia Mr Mustapha Somaiba, Acting Executive Commissioner Corporate Services, Securities and Exchange Commission Mr Henry Rolands, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance and Econo...

June 26, 2019 No Responses

Beauty Queen: I Was Raped By Gambia’s Ex-President

BBC—A 23-year-old former beauty queen in The Gambia, Fatou Jallow, has said she was raped in 2015 by ex-President Yahya Jammeh when he was in office. Her testimony is part of a Human Rights Watch and Trial International report that...

August 15, 2018 No Responses

SIFAX Group In Gambia, Secures Multi-Million Dollar Dry Port Contract

The management of SIFAX Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Government of Gambia to build and operate a dry port in the country’s capital, Banjul. A dry port (sometimes inland port) is an inland intermodal terminal...

January 23, 2017 No Responses

Gambia: Dogara lauds Buhari, ECOWAS leaders

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Yakubu Dogara has commended President Muhammadu Buhari and leaders of the Economic Community of West African States for the role they played in averting major political crisis in the Gambia. In a...

January 22, 2017 No Responses

Yahya Jammeh leaves Gambia

(BBC) Gambia’s former President Yahya Jammeh has left the country in the wake of elections that ousted him after 22 years in power. He boarded a plane to Guinea and from there will travel on to exile in Equatorial Guinea,...

January 9, 2017 No Responses

Gambia: Buhari hosts West African leaders

In furtherance of his mandate as mediator, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari will be hosting four other West African leaders on Monday to a meeting aimed at avoiding violence and preserving democracy in The Gambia. President.....

December 16, 2016 No Responses

Adama Barrow to declare self Gambia president

(BBC) The Gambia’s President-elect, Adama Barrow, has told the BBC he will declare himself president on 18 January despite incumbent Yahya Jammeh’s rejection of the election result. He said his team was preparing for his inauguration and he urged M...

December 14, 2016 No Responses

Gambia security forces ‘seize election commission HQ’

The Gambia’s security forces have taken over the headquarters of the electoral commission, its chairman says, as the country’s president refuses to accept his loss in recent elections. Alieu Momar Njai told the BBC that staff were barred from enter...

December 13, 2016 No Responses

Buhari, Sirleaf, Mahama, others to mediate in Gambia’s poll crisis

West African leaders will travel to Gambia on Tuesday as part of measures to prevail on President Yahya Jammeh to accept defeat in the presidential election and ensure peaceful transition of power to the President-elect, Adama Barrow. President Muhhamadu Buhar...

December 12, 2016 No Responses

I will contest my election defeat in court, Jammeh insist

(BBC) Gambian leader, Yahya Jammeh says he will launch a legal challenge to contest an election defeat that will bring an end to his 22-year rule. President Jammeh initially conceded after rival Adama Barrow won last week’s vote, but then...

December 11, 2016 No Responses

Yahya Jammeh must step down, says UN

(BBC) Gambia President, Yahya Jammeh must hand over power after defeat in elections, the United Nation (UN) Security Council has said. President Jammeh initially conceded to Adama Barrow in last week’s vote but has since refused to accept the end...

December 10, 2016 No Responses

Gambia leader Yahya Jammeh rejects election result

(BBC) Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh has rejected the result of the presidential election held earlier this month, a week after admitting defeat. Speaking on state TV, Mr Jammeh cited “abnormalities” in the vote and called for fresh elections. Mr Jamm...