When I heard Umaru's interview with him, he came across as unabashed, unapologetic and indeed quite proud to say that The Gambia was "hell for journalists" - even in those early days journalists were not his favourite people and some learnt the hard way not to upset the young leader.

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Hell, the Big East is in such bad shape these days that schools that were excited to join the conference months ago may now rescind those intentions.

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