The National Water and Electricity Company (NAWEC) and the Department of Water Resources (DWR) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to enhance water management quality in The Gambia. The partnership aims to improve water quality monitoring, infrastructure development, and capacity building. The signing ceremony was held at the NAWEC headquarters in Kanifing on Tuesday,…
Buba Badjie, communications officer at the National Water and Electricity Company (NAWEC), the public utility provider, has been struggling with the vandalisation of their boreholes for the past ten years. Badjie revealed this challenge during a recent press conference at the Solar Plant in Jamburr, where serious vandalisation took place on the infrastructure by unknown…
The National Water and Electricity Company, the country’s utility provider, has raised alarm over the serious vandalism meted out on its Solar Plant in Jamburr on June 3rd, lamenting theft and deliberate vandalism of its assets are becoming serious trends. Thirty-six cable sets, each consisting of 28 panels, were damaged by the perpetrators, affecting a…
The state of South Carolina in the USA recently honoured the Minister of Petroleum, Energy, and Mines, Nani Juwara, with a special congressional commendation in a move to acknowledge his visionary leadership in the country’s energy sector. The certification of recognition was accorded during the African Leadership Magazine Persons of the Year Awards in Morocco…
President Adama Barrow has set the pace to light The Gambia following the country’s 60th Independence Anniversary. On Thursday 20 February 2025 the President presided over the inauguration of a high voltage energy infrastructure project at a high-profile inauguration function in Salaji, which was part of the Independence anniversary breakthroughs. Undertaken by the National Water…
The Government of The Gambia, in collaboration with its development partners such as the World Bank, European Union and European Investment Bank, is set to inaugurate a mega infrastructure project aimed at modernizing the country’s energy sector. The inauguration of the high voltage infrastructure flagship project of the National Water and Electricity Company, under the…
