It was built in 1996 to mark the military coup d'etat which over threw the democratically elected government, and saw the rise to power on 22 July 1994 of President Yahya Jammeh and his Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
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'.
President of the Gambia Yahya Jammeh was born in this village and expanded it after coming to power.
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.
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.
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.
In July 2006, journalist Ebrima Manneh of The Daily Observer was reportedly arrested by state security after attempting to republish a BBC report criticizing Jammeh shortly before an African Union meeting in Banjul; his arrest was witnessed by coworkers.
Yahya Jammeh | Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef | Yahya Kemal Beyatlı | Sultan Yahya Petra Bridge | Khalid Yahya Blankinship | Yahya Taher Abdullah | Yahya ibn Salama al-Kalbi | Yahya ibn Ma'in | Yahya Goba | Yahya al-Laithi | Yahya | United States Naval Communications Station Sidi Yahya El Gharb | Sultan Yahya | Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh | Ja'far ibn Yahya | Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli |