http://heyafrica.com en-us News Search Results heyafrica.com Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:22:26 GMT http://getlara.com /africa/gambia/article/u-17-to-leave-for-algeria-16th-march The Gambia U-17 team currently on a one month training camp in Egypt are expected to wrap up their preparatory campaign in Egypt and will head for Algeria on March 16th 2009 ahead of the opening of the final of the 8th U-17 championship in Algeria two days later. The team, which left Banjul February 16th is currently engaged in intensive training at a training camp in Egypt, and have already carried out a series of test matches. The baby scorpions have been pitted in group A alongside Cameroon,... Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:58:33 GMT /africa/gambia/article/u-17-to-leave-for-algeria-16th-march /africa/gambia/article/three-strikers-in-golden-boot-contention As 1st Division football continues to gather momentum, three players have set the pace for the golden boot award with just three games played. The prolific strikers are Pa Amadou Gai of Bakau United, Lamin Samateh of Samger and Pa Modou Ngum, alias Bass, of Seaview. The three players already have bagged two goals each in their respective names after playing three matches. These strikers are currently in prime form as clearly demonstrated in the number of goals they dropped in the net for their... Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:50:24 GMT /africa/gambia/article/three-strikers-in-golden-boot-contention /africa/gambia/article/coach-paul-put-takes-up-fresh-assignment-to-build-home-based-squad As part of his assignment for the building of a home-based team for The Gambia, Senior national team Coach, Paul Put, will be scouting for young Gambian players. "The team will represent The Gambia in regional, continental and even the qualifying rounds for the next Olympics," revealed Seedy Kinteh, President of the Gambia Football Association. According to Prexy Kinteh, in order to achieve this, Coach Put who is currently watching the GFA first division league matches, will be responsible for... Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:42:06 GMT /africa/gambia/article/coach-paul-put-takes-up-fresh-assignment-to-build-home-based-squad /africa/gambia/article/still-confident-my-team-will-bounce-back-lang-kah-bojang Following their 2-1 defeat in the hands of Bakau giant, Steve Biko FC, in Week Three of the 2008/09 GFA first division league at Brikama Mini Stadium, the head coach of Brikama United FC, Lang Kah Bojang, remained optimistic that his team would bounce back to winning ways by fighting hard to maintain top-flight football. Coach Bojang made remarks to that effect yesterday at his residence in Brikama. He said that his boys had missed a lot of goal- scoring chances against Biko. Coach Bojang... Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:36:45 GMT /africa/gambia/article/still-confident-my-team-will-bounce-back-lang-kah-bojang /africa/gambia/kololi/article/calls-for-common-african-voice-as-environmental-change-confab-kicks-off Yesterday, March 2, 2009, the secretary of state for Forestry and the Environment, Momodou Kotu Cham, officially opened the 3-day ''Midterm Validation Workshop on the Study of the Reduction of the Vulnerability of West Africa to Climate Change.' The event, which holds from 2-4 March 2009, is organised under the auspices of the Ecowas Commission and the government of The Gambia. It is taking place at the Paradise Suites Hotel in Kololi. Speaking to the gathering, SoS Cham pointed... Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:32:19 GMT /africa/gambia/kololi/article/calls-for-common-african-voice-as-environmental-change-confab-kicks-off /africa/gambia/article/ogis-crowned-champion-in-weekend-wrestling-bout Augusto Tchouda of Guinea Bissau, was last Sunday crowned as the champion of the weekend wrestling competition organized by the Gambia wrestling Association at the Buffer Zone. Mr Tchouda defeated Burama Sarr of Barra on Saturday while the Sunday bout ended in a nil-nil encounter. Apart from the main combat, the second major competition was between Bakary Jarju and Alisay which Bakary Jarju won. The third competition was between Youcat Kabba of Guinea Bissau and Alhagie Sanneh, and this... Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:22:41 GMT /africa/gambia/article/ogis-crowned-champion-in-weekend-wrestling-bout /africa/gambia/article/gambians-confident-in-u-17-team Barely two weeks before the 2009 CAF U-17 kick-off in Algeria, Pointsports gauges the opinion of some football pundits about the U-17 championship. As pointsports seeks the candid opinion of the general public, this reporter first speaks to Omar Jallow, a native of Bakau, who said, ' I am impressed with the level of preparations for the three weeks training scheduled for Egypt," which he said should aid them in the tournament proper. He acknowledged that the team has a lot of quality players... Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:16:38 GMT /africa/gambia/article/gambians-confident-in-u-17-team /africa/gambia/article/biko-officials-rebuff-rumours Following an intense speculation surrounding payment of unpaid salaries to the players of Steve Biko FC, a senior officer of the club in the name of Kemo Ceesay who also doubles as the accountant of the GFA, recently quelled the speculations surrounding the issue of payment to the club's players. Mr. Ceesay clears the dust in an interview with Pointsports, recently in his office at the Independence Stadium in Bakau. He added that the only time that the club defaulted was during the FA Cup... Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:12:39 GMT /africa/gambia/article/biko-officials-rebuff-rumours /africa/gambia/article/meeting-slated-on-13th-14th-march-2009-secondary-schools-athletics The Secretary General of the Gambia Secondary School Sports Association, GSSSA, Alhagie S. Darboe has disclosed to Pointsports that the inter Regional Secondary sport meeting will rage from 13th - 14th March 2009 at the Independence Stadium in Bakau. Mr. Darboe revealed this to Pointsports last Sunday at Independence Stadium during the Zone One schools of Greater Banjul inter-secondary schools final heats. According to Mr. Darboe, all the secondary sport zones across the sixth educational... Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:07:35 GMT /africa/gambia/article/meeting-slated-on-13th-14th-march-2009-secondary-schools-athletics /africa/gambia/article/fire-a-good-servant-but-a-bad-master Fire is a very good invention that has helped and continues to help mankind but many say it is also a bad master. Although man is given the brain to handle fire and other problems at ease but man often forgets to protect at all cost. Fire has a lot of good in itself but continues to ravage when it can. We hear nearly every other day the damages caused by fire in our society and how it engulfs certain countries especially Australia where a simple fire swept over a town and many people perished.... Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:55:37 GMT /africa/gambia/article/fire-a-good-servant-but-a-bad-master