Zainab Scattred-Janneh
Featured: Black influences in my community - Zainab Scattred Janneh
October is the month where we celebrate the black people who have inspired and influenced us. We have heard or learnt about influential...
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GunjurOnline
- Aug 26, 2022
- 1 min
The Covid Frontliner documentary to be shown at the Creative Youth Festival in Cape Town
Gambia: The Covid Frontliner documentary produced in The Gambia is to be screened at the Creative Youth Festival in Cape Town , South...
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GunjurOnline
- Mar 29, 2022
- 6 min
Omar Bojang: Personal Statement of an aspiring Medical Doctor
I like to think that the story of me is told in two parts. The first part long before me, and the second part long after me. Allow me to...
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Ebrima Scattred Janneh
- Mar 8, 2022
- 3 min
Gunjur is incredibly proud of Fatoumata Sowe and Mariama Jatta as the first Women Cadi in The Gambia
The story of Fatoumata Sowe and Mariama Jatta as the first women Cadi in the Gambia captured the zeitgeist of equality on grounds of...
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GunjurOnline
- Jan 31, 2022
- 1 min
USA based Faburama Darboe pledges D20,000 for Gunjur Development Association’s multi-purpose
Gunjur: USA based Faburama Darboe pledges D20,000 for Gunjur Development Association’s multi-purpose centre. Following a visit to the...
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GunjurOnline
- Dec 13, 2021
- 1 min
Gunjur duo score big in 2021 West African Senior School examination (WASSCE)
Momodou Lamin Waggeh and Mambuna Bojang Junior are all smiles as both scored fantastic grades in their Senior Secondary school...
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GunjurOnline
- Aug 13, 2021
- 1 min
Breaking: UTG appoints Ahmed Manjang as lecturer in Microbiology
Gunjur’s Microbiologist and environmental activist, Ahmed Manjang has been appointed as lecturer in Microbiology at School of Medicine...
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GunjurOnline
- Aug 13, 2021
- 1 min
Sixteen year old Tida Ebrima Scattred Janneh scores big in GCSE exams
Tida S Janneh is the talented daughter of GunjurOnline TV’s Dialogue With The Youths Show host Ebrima Scattred Janneh. As the U.K....
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GunjurOnline
- Jul 5, 2021
- 2 min
PROFILE: Mahawa Keita bags BA (Hons) in Textile Design
Gunjur’s Mahawa Keita, a wife and mother of four adds her name to the growing number of pacesetters in education as he bags a Textile...
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GunjurOnline
- May 24, 2021
- 1 min
Pfrofile: Dr Ebrima FW Touray, BSN, RN, SRNA, PhD
Gunjur’s Ebrima Famara Wassa Touray has recently graduated with a PHD a in Anaesthesia from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Basidia M Drammeh
- May 11, 2021
- 2 min
Commentary: My long-held dream finally came true!
The Gambia's Point newspaper has reported that the University of The Gambia, on Thursday 6 May 2021, gathered stakeholders to validate...
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By Dida Jallow-Halake.
- May 3, 2021
- 2 min
Re: Congrats to Gunjur’s own Alhassan Darboe!
Congrats to Gunjur’s own Alhassan Darboe! Proud of you Alhassan. Now you are a Master’s graduate and your “parents never sat in a...
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Basidia M Drammeh
- Apr 16, 2021
- 2 min
Featured: When the African child is punished for speaking their native language!
According to prominent educationist Carolyn Savage, “When children develop their mother tongue, they are simultaneously fostering a whole...
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GunjurOnline
- Mar 28, 2021
- 1 min
A day long community journalism training ends in Gunjur
A training on community journalism for young people who are interested in the media in the sprawling seaside community of Gunjur has...
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Book Review by: Hassoum Ceesay, ORG
- Mar 10, 2021
- 4 min
Book Review: The life Times of Sheikh Hatab Bojang (1931-1984)
The life Times of Sheikh Hatab Bojang (1931-1984) Book Review Sulayman Tumani Danjo, The Life Story of Sheikh Hatab Through The Lens of...
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GunjurOnline
- Mar 8, 2021
- 2 min
PROFILE: Dr Yusupha Touray, Deputy Permanent Secretary - Technical, MoHERST
PROFILE: Dr Yusupha Touray, Deputy Permanent Secretary - Technical, MoHERST Yusupha Touray, commonly referred to as “Wahey” or “Star...
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Basidia M Drammeh
- Jan 26, 2021
- 2 min
Biography of Sheikh Hattab Bojang, Part 1
Culled from “The Life Story of Sheikh Hattab Through the Lens of His Acquaintances” by Sheikh Sulayman Danjo” Translated by Basidia...
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Basidia M Drammeh
- Jan 22, 2021
- 4 min
“The Life Story of Sheikh Hattab Through the Lens of His Acquaintances”
“The Life Story of Sheikh Hattab Through the Lens of His Acquaintances” by the Gambian writer Sulayman Danjo Translated and reviewed by...
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GunjurOnline
- Jan 10, 2021
- 5 min
Biography of Sheikh Essa Foday Darboe: The newly appointed President of the Supreme Islamic Council
Biography of Sheikh Essa Foday Darboe: The newly appointed President of The Gambia Supreme Islamic Council Compiled by: Sulayman Bin...
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GunjurOnline
- Jan 2, 2021
- 1 min
Gunjur Kene kene Jamengo to be considered a UNESCO World Heritage site
Gunjur Kene kene Jamengo is being considered as a UNESCO World Heritage site, according to sources close to the beach mosque....
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GunjurOnline
- Dec 31, 2020
- 1 min
PROFILE: Moses Sanna Bass MSc
Born in Kombo Sanyang in 1993, Moses Sanna Bass grew up in Kombo Gunjur where his academic journey began. At age 17, he left Gunjur for...
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Lamin Darboe, Leicester, UK
- Dec 17, 2020
- 3 min
Opinion: Lang Tombong’s Testimony revealed a scaring malaise in our national consciousness
Listening to Lang Tombong Tamba (LTT), I sensed, our nation need radical shift in civic education as well as conventional education. His...
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Basidia M Drammeh
- Dec 15, 2020
- 3 min
Opinion: Mandikanization of terms and concepts
Disclaimer: The use of the term "mandinkanization" does not mean that I am referring to the Mandinka language, per se. The term that I've...
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GunjurOnline
- Dec 9, 2020
- 1 min
Top NCCE official: Youth unemployment threatens peace in the country
Elevated levels of unemployment in the mass of the youth demographic in The Gambia constitutes clear and present danger to peace and...
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GunjurOnline
- Dec 8, 2020
- 1 min
NCCE top official: Gambia is deeply divided by politics, tribalism
A program manager for National Council for Civic Education (NCCE), Yusupha Bojang, has offered the bleak assessment The Gambia is at risk...
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GunjurOnline
- Dec 3, 2020
- 1 min
Education minister vows to defy Barrow over corruption
Higher education minister, Badara Joof, has vowed to defy president Barrow’s orders in his bid to root out corruption in the higher...
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GunjurOnline
- Nov 25, 2020
- 3 min
Book review: ‘Never doubt...’
From the title of the book,’Never Doubt’...one might be forgiven for nurturing aspirations of living by its meaning. But the experiences...
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Zainab Scattred-Janneh
- Nov 17, 2020
- 2 min
Zainab Scattred-Janneh: My opinion on the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
I came home from school and started asking my dad about boycott. He started to tell me about boycott in France. When I heard of the...
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Yero S. Bah - Banjul Correspondent
- Oct 26, 2020
- 2 min
Ahmed Manjang: My target was to Lecture at UTG but ended up at MRC Gambia
Ahmad Manjang is a native of Gunjur who had his first Degree in Microbiology from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom...
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Sainey Darboe
- Oct 16, 2020
- 1 min
‘Gunjurians think Allah is their slave’, Seedy Ali Janneh bemoans as he issues call to national duty
There is no such thing as passive faith and Gunjur is better served by people commencing efforts to develop the community rather than...
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Sainey Darboe
- Oct 5, 2020
- 2 min
Prof. Saine lambasts UTG over poor management of Human Resources
Gambia News: Prof. Saine lambasts UTG over poor management of Human Resources Gambian professor, Dr. Abdoulie Saine, has roasted the...
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GunjurOnline
- Sep 28, 2020
- 1 min
Proposed new US immigration measures target Gambian students
Monday 28 September | By Sainey Darboe New measures announced by the US Department for Homeland Security (DHS), outlines changes to...
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GunjurOnline
- Sep 24, 2020
- 2 min
Sister’s Show: Feminism is not about bashing men
Thursday, 24 September | Sainey Darboe Amid greater advocacy for women’s rights which has led to the toppling of notable male captains of...
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GunjurOnline
- Sep 19, 2020
- 2 min
Faback Gibba: The Gambia College student’s Thesis reveals decline in tourism in Gunjur
Saturday 19 September | By Yero S. Bah Tourism plays a vital role in the lives and livelihoods of Gambians especially in the Kombo South...
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GunjurOnline
- Sep 18, 2020
- 2 min
The Sisters Show launches mentorship initiative
Friday, 18 September | Sainey Darboe Recognizing the gap in mentorship opportunities for immigrant communities and people of African...
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GunjurOnline
- Aug 25, 2020
- 2 min
Islamic teachers are citizens, too - Basidia M Drammeh
OPINION: Tuesday 25 August | Basidia M Drammeh Like everybody else, Arabic and Islamic teachers in the Gambia are going through extremely...
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GunjurOnline
- Aug 14, 2020
- 3 min
Plight of Arabic-Islamic Teachers in the Gambia
By Concerned Islamic Studies Scholars Plight of Arabic-Islamic Teachers in the Gambia We, the Arabic Islamic and Quranic teachers in the...
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GunjurOnline
- Aug 10, 2020
- 2 min
Natures cry: A Poem by Zainab Janneh
Natures cry Long ago, when there was still magic, there lived twin sisters called Willa and Willow. They lived in the city of Evangeline...
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GunjurOnline
- Jul 14, 2020
- 2 min
VIRUS LOCKDOWN HITS PRIVATE SCHOOLS HARD
Tuesday 14 July | Alkali Cham Schools have been closed since March when the Government announced a state of public emergency as mechanism...
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GunjurOnline
- Jul 5, 2020
- 2 min
Over 63,400 Students Affected By Virus Lockdown
Gambia: Sunday 05 July 2020 | Alkali Cham | The declaration of the state of public emergency by the president of the Republic of The...
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GunjurOnline
- Jun 25, 2020
- 1 min
Schools reopen as the grade 9 students prepare for the Gambia Basic Certificate Examination (GABECE)
Gambia: 25 June | Muhammed Manjang | Schools reopen as the grade 9 students prepare for the Gambia Basic Certificate Examination...
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GunjurOnline
- Jun 3, 2020
- 1 min
JUST IN: Gambian schools to reopen from 15 June
Gambian schools to reopen from 15 June Schools in The Gambia are to reopen from Monday, 15th June 2020. The decision was taken by...
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GunjurOnline
- May 31, 2020
- 2 min
GYIN Gambia To Virtually Train 30 Rural Entrepreneurs On Business Taxation, Records Keeping
GYIN Gambia To Virtually Train 30 Rural Entrepreneurs On Business Taxation, Records Keeping The Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN)...
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GunjurOnline
- May 28, 2020
- 2 min
Young Zainab Janneh raises over £1K for Kombo Sillah Association
Zainab Janneh, 11 has raised a mouth watering £1000 plus for the UK based registered charitable organisation, Kombo Sillah Association...
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