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VP receives Senegalese envoy

The vice-president and secretary of state for Women's Affairs, Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, on Thursday morning, received in her office, a Senegalese envoy, Mr Mame Birane Diouf. As the Senegalese minister of Culture and Heritage, Mr Diouf told journalists in an interview that he was in The Gambia to convey a special message to the Gambian leader, President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, on a festival to be organised in Senegal. This festival, according to the Senegalese envoy, is aimed at promoting...

Football fanaticism

Fanaticism is among the greatest threats to our civilisation. Today we see it at all levels of society – from religion to politics. And for our younger generation, football has become more than religion; to some it is life and death. Just about last weekend, football fans in the village of Sanyany, in Kombo South, unleashed hell on members of the sports committee of that village. Their reason was that the committee members were indifferent to their feelings. Apparently, the village team had...

The art of weaving , a fading culture

Human  history on earth  has been characterised and continue to be characterise with numerous events and activities  at one time or the other. These  events and activities are in  no small measure the main  contributing factors towards  development of human civilisation on earth. The art of weaving had undoubtedly contributed a lot towards  human civilisation dated back centuries  ago. People in the past and present use woven clothes  in various forms  and designs.. Woven cloth was at one ...

Discipline, discipline, discipline

As human beings, we are distinguishably superior to the rest of the animal kingdom by virtue of our unequivocal sense of civilisation. And this we owe to a set of conceived rules that shape our way of life, and of relating with our perceived inferior species. But do we know that this civilisation we keep chanting about is a progeny of a combination of key attributes - the twin virtues of discipline and honesty? A society totally devoid of discipline is clearly starving for want of virtue, and...