Sports

The newly appointed chairman of the National Sports Council, NSC, Lamin 'King' Kolley, has condemned the present infighting within the Gambian sports fraternity, blaming it for impeding the development of sports in the country.

As part of efforts aimed at sanitising the situation in the trouble stricken region of URR, where rival groups claiming to be the legitimate football association vowed to stage their own leagues, the Gambia Football Federation, GFF, has now decreed that both factions should desist from organising football in the region....

Following a directive from the Gambia Football Federation GFF for the cancellation of plans to stage the regional football league in the Upper River Region until further notice, there have been calls for an imminent resolution of the impasse that has been raging on as two factions battle for legitimacy and control of the regional football association....

Gamtel FC suffered their worst international outing going down 4-0 in Casablanca , in the return leg of their Confederation Cup....

As preparation get into full swing to get the newly acquired Banjul office of the West African Football Union Wafu, Zone A, working Gambians.....

Sports is an exciting human endeavour which engages the purist moments of the heart. Love for it is born by passion driven by honest and sincere dedication in the quest for the joy it brings to the heart. Gambian football started from somewhere. It was baby sat and nursed on the laps of individuals who spent time, resources and energy to keep the game alive and passed it to the present generation of Gambians...

To the question, “What is development communication?” one cannot get a more definitive explication than this article. Without equivocation, the author sets forth the purpose and nature of development communication as a tool for social engineering, defines its methods and illustrates its practice at national, sectoral, and project levels.

It is often said that the only thing that does not end with death is the history of the dead. Whether that history is anything to write home about is another thing altogether. But according to Sports veteran, George Gomez, the story of the late great Gambian player Salifu Ndure, a man anyone would love in a soccer pitch is a must told. He was just marvelous,'' George Gomez added.

For the first time in history, the annual ever groovy secondary schools athletics championship would be staged outside the Greater Banjul Area, the secondary school sports president Martin Gomez announced in a recent press conference.

Members of the newly constituted National Sports Council board would this morning be officially inaugurated at the Independence Stadium. The new batch of members include a notable new comer, Jarrai Jawneh, The Gambia's first ever regional sports chairwoman. She was elected as the Upper River Region's youth and sports chairwoman recently.

“In pursuit of its strategic objective to decentralise operations, The Gambia Teachers' Union Co-operative Credit Union (GTUCCU) has extended its services by establishing offices in all regions. Considering the time and cost involved in teachers making their transactions at a centralised point and in its drive to ensuring teacher satisfaction, especially for teachers in the provinces, the leadership of credit union deemed it prudent to take its services to the teachers in the regions”,