The Scorpions booked their place to the quarterfinals of the Afcon after defeating fellow West African side Guinea Conakry 1-0 in the round of 16 game played at the Stade Omnisports de Baffousam on Monday.
Musa Barrow scored the only goal of the match in the 71st minute to help continue Gambia’s fairytale in their first ever Afcon tournament.
“After consulting with each other, we agreed that there is going to be a token of $10, 000 to each of the players. The most important thing is that we progress to the quarterfinals stage and this is just to say thank you (to players) for reaching this stage,” Mr. Badjie who also doubles as the Minister of Youth and Sports said.
Minister Badjie added that they knew that there was going to be prize money from CAF for reaching this stage, adding that aside from this token, they would pay all the other allowances and bonuses entitled to players.
According to him, this is not about giving money to players, but just to appreciate their efforts for reaching this far (quarterfinals stage) of the tournament and to say “thank you to them.”
Scorpions of The Gambia, who will aim to continue their unbeaten streak, will be meeting host nation Cameroon in the quarterfinal on Saturday 29 January 2022 at 4 p.m.
Rohey Manjang, the minister of Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources, has disclosed that the nationwide monthly cleansing exercise commonly known as ‘set-settal’ will bounce back starting from Saturday January 28, 2023.
Sainey Jarju, the second defence witness in the trial of Yakumba Jaiteh and Yusupha Jaiteh, yesterday testified before Justice Isatou Janneh-Njie of the High Court at Kanifing. She was being led by the defence counsel, Yankuba Darboe.
The University of The Gambia (UTG), on Friday 21 October 2021 sworn-in 35 medical doctors graduated from the School Medicine and Allied Health Sciences.
Seedy Keita, the minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, while tabling the country’s current Estimates of Revenues, Recurrent and Development Expenditures of the republic for the Fiscal Year 2023 before legislators of the National Assembly on Monday, said The Gambia’s revenue has registered a low outturn in 2022.
