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Dr Bilal Philips, the founder and chancellor of Islamic Online University (IOU) has praised President Yahya Jammeh for his support to the cause of Islam, while underlining his university's commitment to provide quality and affordable education for Gambians that will guide them to be responsible citizens.

There can never be a productive citizenry without proper education. It must be noted however that proper education does leave off intervals for leisure. In fact, the human being by nature needs quality time for ease and relaxation...

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The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at on Saturday concluded its 38th annual convention at Masroor Senior Secondary School, Old Yundum. The two-day event opened on Friday with Amir Baba Trawally addressing thousands of followers...

The goal and aim of every civilised society is to achieve equilibrium, empowerment and security within its dwellers. Otherwise it becomes nothing more than a society of brutes who take advantage of the weak and the dispossessed among them, and in so doing perpetuate evil leading to instability and the wrecking of the community itself...

The founder of 'Operation No Back Way to Europe,' Babucarr Jabbie, has underscored his organisation's aim of infusing hope in Gambian youths to stay in the country by engaging them in employable professions than attempting perilous sea or desert journeys to Mediterranean Europe...

A veteran teacher and proprietress of Pipeline based Rassatou Day Care, Child Minding and Nursery School Centre Ndey Jallow has stated that sports and physical education are an integral parts of her school's efforts to nurture the pupils for accomplishment of quality education and good health to excel beyond the class room...

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About a year ago, in the land of the great Nelson Mandela I met a number of young Africans, all of whom are the continent's biggest and brightest young entrepreneurs. It was at the continent's edition of the World Economic Forum and the Global Shapers meeting....

Women the world over have been and are continually being exploited in varied forms and levels by politicians, employers, societies, families and male counterparts. The first generation of women who braced social scorn to spotlight their deplorable conditions and exploitations were branded “feminists” denoting negative stigma. Despite the barriers, resistance, and hatred thrown at them to thwart the efforts to reclaim their rightful rights and opportunities, they matched on. Thanks to them today feminism and gender are now viewed in a positive plane even by some of their fervent exploiters. ..

In a fit of anger one night Modou Boy murdered a man. He was drunk, it is true, but being drunk had never muddied his thoughts the way it did that night, that he could remember...

At Kudang, one of the passengers who came on board was Momodou Cham, the opposition MP from Tumana, whose father Cherno Cham is a tall, slender young man, with a small pinched face, large brown eyes and a small goatee....