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unusual facts about Lamin, Western Division, Gambia


Lamin, Gambia

Lamin, Western Division, Gambia, a city located in the Western Division near the national capital Banjul


African Heritage Museum

The African Heritage Museum or African Heritage Centre is a museum and art gallery in Bakau, Gambia.

Alagie Sosseh

He is currently the captain of Swedish third-division side IK Sirius and a Gambia national.

Arthur Gómez

Gómez's last appearance for Gambia's national team was in 2003, when they visited Senegal in Dakar for an African Cup qualifying match.

Assan Jatta

In season 2005-2006 he was played in Gambia for club Steve Biko, he then join Lierse S.K.

Ba F.C.

The football team took part in a league organised by the Northern District Association in which teams from the north west districts of Viti Levu.

Badri Maharaj

When Vashist Muni arrived in Fiji, in 1920, and conducted meetings in different parts of the Western Division, Badri Maharaj provided confidential reports on his activities to the Government.

Bai Konte

Alhaji Bai Konte (born 1920; died 1983) was a jali (praise singer) from Brikama, Gambia.

Batokunku

Batokunku (also spelled Batukunku) is a village located in Kombo South, one of the nine districts of The Gambia's Western Division.

Biri Biri

In 2000, Biri was awarded the Order of Merit by Gambian president Yahya Jammeh, and was named Gambia's 'greatest footballer of the last millennium and of all time'.

Alhaji Momodo Nije (born 30 March 1948, Banjul, Gambia), more commonly known as Biri Biri is a Gambian former football player who used to play for Sevilla FC.

He currently lives back home in Gambia working as a civil servant for Banjul council, where he also coaches young children at Wallidan Banjul.

Carlos Gomes Júnior

Following the failure of a coup plot in 2008, Rear Admiral Bubo Na Tchuto escaped to Gambia where he was arrested.

Cenocoelius huggerti

It is only known from a single female collected from Bakau in Gambia in 1978.

Child sacrifice in Uganda

Ritual Killing and Human Sacrifice in Africa, a statement made at the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights , 48th Session (November 10-24) in Banjul, Gambia.

Cyclone Paula

In Fiji's Western Division, strong storm surge destroyed homes in nine villages across the coastline.

Dembo Konte and Kausu Kuyateh

Konte lives in Brikama, in an area of The Gambia noted for its musical traditions and is the son of Alhaji Bai Konte, also a noted kora player and singer in his own right.

Eddie Spears

When he was cast for the lead in Black Cloud (2004), directed by Rick Schroder, he trained for three months with boxing trainer Jimmy Gambia to perfect his boxing skills before filming started.

Foday Musa Suso

Foday Musa Suso (born in Sarre Hamadi Village, Wuli District, in the Upper River Division of eastern Gambia) is a musician and composer from the Gambia.

Gabriel Sharma

On 1 May 2005, he became the first Indo-Fijian to be consecrated as an Anglican Bishop, the first ethnic Indian Bishop in the Province of Aotearoa, of which Fiji forms a part, and the first Bishop specifically assigned to Fiji's Western Division, when he was installed as Bishop of Viti Levu West.

Gambia Colony and Protectorate

The Gambia Colony and Protectorate was part of the British Empire in the New Imperialism era.

Gambia National Museum

Among distinguished visitors recently to the Gambia National Museum are the President Ma of Taiwan, Rev.Jesse Jackson of the USA.

Governor-in-chief

The office could be systematically vested in and cumulated with a governorship, as it was in the governors of Sierra Leone (at Freetown) the case in both periods of existence of British West Africa, 17 October 1821 - 13 January 1850 and 19 February 1866 - 24 November 1888, the other components being Gambia, the British Gold Coast (present Ghana) and, in the second period, also Lagos territory (later a colony; in present Nigeria).

Gymnarchus

It is found exclusively in swamps and near vegetated edges in the Nile, Turkana, Chad, Niger, Volta, Senegal, and Gambia basins.

Jeremaia Waqanisau

He joined the civil service and served as Commissioner of Fiji's Western Division from January 1997 through December 1998.

Jufureh

Jufureh, Juffureh or Juffure is a town in the Gambia, located 30 kilometers inland on the north bank of the River Gambia in the North Bank Division near James Island.

Lamin Conteh

Though a muslim, Lamin was highly involved in the rastafarian movement and was a big fan of reggae star Bob Marley.

Laminopathy

Mutations implicated in other nuclear envelopathies were found in genes coding for lamin-binding proteins such as lamin B receptor (LBR gene), emerin (EMD gene) and LEM domain-containing protein 3 (LEMD3 gene) and prelamin-processing enzymes such as the zinc metalloproteinase STE24 (ZMPSTE24 gene).

Lawan Gwadabe

On his return to Nigeria after the July 1994 Yahya Jammeh coup in Gambia, he was briefly Principal Staff Officer to General Sani Abacha before being appointed commander of 23 Armored Brigade in Yola.

Lenrie Peters

Peters worked in hospitals in Guildford and Northampton before returning to the Gambia, where he had a surgical practice in Banjul.

London Corner

The market in London Corner is called "MARCI NGLEWE" and was officially open in 1994 by the president of the second Republic of the Gambia, Yahya Jammeh.

Niumi National Park

The Gambia declared its portion of the Delta as a national park in 1986, comprising the southern part of the coastal wetlands and mangroves of the Saloum Delta.

Njogu Demba-Nyrén

Njogu Demba-Nyrén (born 26 June 1979 in Bakau) is a Gambian footballer who has represented Gambia at full international level and currently plays in Sweden for Dalkurd FF.

Orison

Orison Rudolph Aggrey (born 1926), United States Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia and Romania

Patience Sonko-Godwin

Born in Banjul, Patience Sonko-Godwin was educated in the Gambia before going to St. Edwards Senior Secondary School in Freetown, Sierra Leone to have her sixth form education.

Police Beat

The story is narrated by Z in his native Wolof language (the language of Senegal and parts of Mali, the Gambia, Cote d'Ivoire, and Mauritania), though he makes the transition to English when interacting with those around him.

Progerin

This mutation activates a cryptic splice site and gives rise to a form of lamin A with a deletion of 50 amino acids near the C-terminus.

Restrictive dermopathy

Restrictive dermopathy (RD) is caused either by the loss of the gene ZMPSTE24, which encodes a protein responsible for the cleavage of farnesylated prelamin A (progerin) into mature non-farnesylated lamin, or by a mutation in the LMNA gene.

Roman Catholicism in the Gambia

In 1992 Pope John Paul II visited Gambia and gave further impetus to the interest in Christian-Muslim relations within the Catholic community.

Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital

The need for tertiary medical education was addressed in 1994, by Gambia’s President, Dr. Alh. Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh when he made health and education priorities for his government, the School of Medicine became the lead faculty in establishing the first university in Gambian history.

S. A. Agulhas

Included in the itinerary were visits to Tema and Abidjan to take on additional cadets from Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, while en route to London, UK.

Soccer Bowl '76

The Minnesota Kicks qualified for the playoffs by virtue of winning the Western Division with 138 points.

Stigmella wollofella

It was described by Gustafsson in 1972 and is endemic to Gambia where it was discovered in Gambia River which flows between Basse Santa Su and Banjul.

The Gambia Scout Association

Alhaji Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof Served the movement from 1938 to 2005, former President of the Gambia National Scout Council, scholar on the history of scouting in the Gambia, first Gambian to be awarded the Wood Badge.

Winchester Model 1200

The Model 1200 and Model 1300 were two pump-action shotguns that were manufactured by the Winchester-Western Division of Olin Corporation.

Wolof

Wolof people, an ethnic group found in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania

Wolof language, a language spoken in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania

Wuli

Wuli District, a district in the Upper River Division of the Gambia


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