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Final Day West Coast Inter-School Championship Turns Violence As PIU Release Tear Gas At Jubilant

By Mustapha Jarju The west Coast Region Athletic Inters-School Competition which is taking place at Botrop Senior Secondary School in Brikama turns Violence as today Mark the final day to end the events. Police Intervention Unit officers throw tear gas [...]

Final Day West Coast Inter – School Athletic Championship Turns Violence As Combat Police Release Tear Gas At Jubilant

By Mustapha Jarju The west Coast Region Athletic Inters-School Competition which is taking place at Botrop Senior Secondary School in Brikama turns Violence as today Mark the final day to end the events. Police Intervention Unit officers throw tear gas [...]

EU’s Election Observers Spotted Disparity In Allocation Of Air Time To Political Parties During Electoral Process

EU’s Election Observers Spotted Disparity In Allocation Of Air Time To Political Parties During Electoral Process

By Mustapha Jarju This approach by the (EU EOM) indicates that QTV which is the first private TV station, to be registered after the dictatorial region of former President Yahya Jammeh has given more electoral coverage priority to the [...]

GPU, Beakanyang Holds Training For Journalists On Countering Hate Speech

GPU, Beakanyang Holds Training For Journalists On Countering Hate Speech

By: Essa Bah The Gambia Press Union in partnership with Beakanyang holds a day-long training for Journalists on Countering hate Speech during elections. The training which is sponsored by the United Nations Development Plan (UNDP) seeks to mitigate Hate speech using [...]

WACOMP-GM Conducts Market Analysis On Vegetables

By Fatima B Camara The Gambia Component of West Africa Competitiveness Programme commences a 6-day field mission from the 27th of March 2022. The mission is said to make a rapid market analysis (RAM) on tomato, chili pepper and sweet [...]

NHRC mobile Legal Aid Clinic Embarked On Community Outreach

NHRC mobile Legal Aid Clinic Embarked On Community Outreach

NHRC mobile Legal Aid Clinic Embarked On Community Outreach As part of their mandate to Empower citizens within the country , NHRC legal mobile clinic has toured the communities of CRR North from the 14 to 18 of March 2022 [...]

UTG Debate Association Commemorates World Health Day

UTG Debate Association Commemorates World Health Day

By Fatou Camara The university of the Gambia debate association commemorated world health day on April 7th 2022 held at the faculty of Law on Kanifing Campus under the theme "To hear for life,listen with care". In his welcoming remark [...]

Over the undesirable situation at Brikama Campus in the past days, most especially today, the University of The Gambia Students’ Union wishes to inform the student fraternity that it has taken the unpleasant matter with compelling concerns and since then has been restless to ameliorating the conditions. At the outset of the semester, the Students’ Union and University Management had both agreed that Brikama stream is the potential challenge in this particular semester and thus deserves unreserved attention and actions. It may please you to note that, just like in Kanifing Campus where extra halls outside campus are rented for lectures, similar approach has been consistently tried in Brikama. Unfortunately, the consistent efforts have continued to be unyielding as availability of similar facilities around Brikama campus remains impossible. This forms part of the recent procurement of chairs amidst an alternate. Last week, the Gambia College that has offered the University lecture rooms began their examinations. As a result, given the obvious heavy logistics involved in exams, a lot of the UTG assigned classes are used for the college examinations. While we were caught off guard that College had begun examinations, we swiftly engaged Management for a solution. Since then, the Management has been helpful to ensuring that the matter is resolved. As at today, the Union is pleased to bring to the attention of students that a breakthrough has been reached as far as classroom space is concerned and normal lectures shall resume by tomorrow or day after. The Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic, the representatives of Students’ Union, and the Student Leaders in Brikama have been on the ground whole day. The Gambia College was duly engaged and to that effect a number of 6 classrooms have been allocated to the University. However, the 6 assigned classes— two blocks at the right hand side upon entry into Bajonkoto— are without chairs. Fortunately, UTG had already procured a total of 360 chairs and today with the help of the students and student leaders in Brikama, chairs are being transported to these classrooms. This is expected to be completed tomorrow. By the same missive, we are pleased to inform you that Management has procured two brand new buses. These buses are set to report to Brikama tomorrow to commence duties (Brikama-Faraba). It is the position of the Students’ Union and Management alike that the issue at hand is not as pleasing but we are happy that a solution has been paved out. We have received a lot of concerns from students over what they described as unfair treatment. We equally share this view and thus would remain steadfast and resolute to closely working with Management and sub-associations to change the dynamics. At this juncture, the Students’ Union calls for calm and resolute as it is only through our collective efforts as demonstrated today that we can overcome these impediments. We thank the sub-association leaders who once again proved that they are indeed the operational arms of the Union; the excellent work demonstrated today, like always, is a manifestation of how crucial of an organ they are in the service of students. Similar gratitude is extended to all students for their continued support and patience. We know that the situation is tough, but our efforts to changing it will never cease. We also wish to thank the University Management and Gambia College for working together to find a common ground in the interest of academia. A luta continua. SECRETARIAT UTG STUDENTS’ UNION

Over the undesirable situation at Brikama Campus in the past days, most especially today, the University of The Gambia Students’ Union wishes to inform the student fraternity that it has taken the unpleasant matter with compelling concerns and since then has been restless to ameliorating the conditions. At the outset of the semester, the Students’ Union and University Management had both agreed that Brikama stream is the potential challenge in this particular semester and thus deserves unreserved attention and actions. It may please you to note that, just like in Kanifing Campus where extra halls outside campus are rented for lectures, similar approach has been consistently tried in Brikama. Unfortunately, the consistent efforts have continued to be unyielding as availability of similar facilities around Brikama campus remains impossible. This forms part of the recent procurement of chairs amidst an alternate. Last week, the Gambia College that has offered the University lecture rooms began their examinations. As a result, given the obvious heavy logistics involved in exams, a lot of the UTG assigned classes are used for the college examinations. While we were caught off guard that College had begun examinations, we swiftly engaged Management for a solution. Since then, the Management has been helpful to ensuring that the matter is resolved. As at today, the Union is pleased to bring to the attention of students that a breakthrough has been reached as far as classroom space is concerned and normal lectures shall resume by tomorrow or day after. The Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic, the representatives of Students’ Union, and the Student Leaders in Brikama have been on the ground whole day. The Gambia College was duly engaged and to that effect a number of 6 classrooms have been allocated to the University. However, the 6 assigned classes— two blocks at the right hand side upon entry into Bajonkoto— are without chairs. Fortunately, UTG had already procured a total of 360 chairs and today with the help of the students and student leaders in Brikama, chairs are being transported to these classrooms. This is expected to be completed tomorrow. By the same missive, we are pleased to inform you that Management has procured two brand new buses. These buses are set to report to Brikama tomorrow to commence duties (Brikama-Faraba). It is the position of the Students’ Union and Management alike that the issue at hand is not as pleasing but we are happy that a solution has been paved out. We have received a lot of concerns from students over what they described as unfair treatment. We equally share this view and thus would remain steadfast and resolute to closely working with Management and sub-associations to change the dynamics. At this juncture, the Students’ Union calls for calm and resolute as it is only through our collective efforts as demonstrated today that we can overcome these impediments. We thank the sub-association leaders who once again proved that they are indeed the operational arms of the Union; the excellent work demonstrated today, like always, is a manifestation of how crucial of an organ they are in the service of students. Similar gratitude is extended to all students for their continued support and patience. We know that the situation is tough, but our efforts to changing it will never cease. We also wish to thank the University Management and Gambia College for working together to find a common ground in the interest of academia. A luta continua. SECRETARIAT UTG STUDENTS’ UNION

Released date: April 19th, 2022 Over the undesirable situation at Brikama Campus in the past days, most especially today, the University of The Gambia Students' Union wishes to inform the student fraternity that it has taken the unpleasant matter with [...]

UTGSU STATEMENT ON THE BRIKAMA CAMPUS SITUATION

UTGSU STATEMENT ON THE BRIKAMA CAMPUS SITUATION

Released date: April 19th, 2022 Over the undesirable situation at Brikama Campus in the past days, most especially today, the University of The Gambia Students' Union wishes to inform the student fraternity that it has taken the unpleasant matter with [...]

NYC TO ESTABLISH A REGIONAL CREATIVE HUB IN LRR

NYC TO ESTABLISH A REGIONAL CREATIVE HUB IN LRR

As the world moves away from analogue system to a digital one, the NYC has today conducted a feasibility studies at Lower River Region to assess the area for a creative youth lab. Basiru Jaye and Omar Bah ,Program Officer [...]