The Daily IIJ

The Minister of Forestry and Environment, Jatto Sillah has admitted that the growth of a country can take place in harmony with the environment. A long-term integrated approach to sustainability coupled with good governance will help the country reap high dividends. The Gambian Environment Minister made these remarks on Saturday 19 February 2011, at the [...]

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18th February 2011, The Gambia marks its 46th Independence anniversary with joy of freedom and nationhood. On 18 February 1965, celebrations began that very day with lowering of the Union Jack, for the last time, and replaced with the last time, and replaced with the red, white, blue, and green, national flag of the Gambia. [...]

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A waste water treatment plant project with worth two million US Dollars was on Saturday 19 February 2011, inaugurated by Gambega Limited, in Kanifing. A member of the prestigious group equatorial coco-cola Bottling company, and the coco-cola company. According to officials on the day of inauguration, the purpose is to ensure environmental protection, reduce water [...]

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Disaster can take many forms, man-made and natural, but most of them are water and climate related and largely link to climate change, the worsen form of disaster in recent times inTthe Gambia are link to heavy water down pours and logging causing loss of human lives and properties and more so the inconviniency of [...]

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Mr. Abdou B Touray the National Consultant on Disaster Risk Reduction (DAR), while presenting his paper on linking Disaster Risk Reduction on poverty reduction strategies and the United Nations Development Framework (UNDAF), at Disaster Risk Reduction Advocacy Training for the media practitioners and security officers, has said that the most form of disaster in the [...]

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According to the National Water and Electricity Company (NAWEC) management, the company is currently under extreme financial difficulties to sustain the operation of the company. This according to the is due to its ever increasing cost of both light and heavy fuel adcibricants, increasing cost of energy purchased from the IPP (generating capacity) and high [...]

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From Nathaniel Y. Yankson, Tamale INCREASED PRESSURE on daily water supply in the Northern Region has been ascribed to the ever growing population, urbanization and human activities such as bush burning, deforestation as well as bad farming practices in the area. Governments, according to the Deputy Northern Regional Minister, San Nasamu Asabigi, had tried in [...]

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The USAID funded Promoting, Agriculture, Governance and the Environment, PAGE Program is currently assisting communities around the Warawara Mountains in Koinadugu District to derive greater income from their forest resources by using new system called “forest co-management” In the context of these activities, PAGE recently presented fifteen Savings Groups in the Wara Wara Bafodia Chiefdom [...]

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The Managing Director of Skye Bank Sierra Leone Olumide Olatunji is not a happy man. This can even tell on his facial expression each day seen walking through the corridors of the dormant bank. The Managing Director is presently going around to say good-bye to his countrymen and friends, while at the same time packing [...]

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The Managing Director of Skye Bank Sierra Leone Olumide Olatunji is not a happy man. This can even tell on his facial expression each day seen walking through the corridors of the dormant bank. The Managing Director is presently going around to say good-bye to his countrymen and friends, while at the same time packing [...]

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