Mass Axi Gai

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Alhagie Mass Axi Gai (also Mass Axy Gye ) is a sports official and former minister and diplomat in the West African state of Gambia .

Life

After training in accounting from January 1973 to December 1975, he graduated from the Management Development Institute in April 1985 with an auditor degree. He graduated from Croydon College in the United Kingdom from September 1989 to June 1990 as an auditor of public accounts. In December 1991, he received a degree in performance assessment from the University of Connecticut . He obtained a diploma in advanced auditing in December 1994 from the Eastern and Southern Africa Management Institute (ESAMI) in Nairobi . He returned to the United States from January to July 1996, graduating from the University of Connecticut with a degree in public finance.

Mass Axi Gai, formerly a soccer player himself who also played in the national team, is heavily involved in sports as a functionary. He is president of the successful Gambia Ports Authority Football Club (GPA) and second vice president of the Gambia Football Association (GFA). In this role, for example, he accompanied the Gambian U-20 national soccer team as head of the delegation to the 2007 Junior Soccer World Cup in Canada .

On September 14, 2007, he was appointed Secretary of State for Youth, Sports and Religious Affairs by President Yahya Jammeh to succeed Sheikh Omar Fye as Secretary of State for Youth, Sports and Religious Affairs , previously with the Gambia Ports Authority . In September 2007 he told the newspaper Foroyaa that he would step down from the presidency of the GPA and GFA in the future. On June 27, 2008, he gave his portfolio to his successor Sheriff Gomez .

In May 2010, Gai became the Gambian ambassador to Guinea-Bissau .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gambia News: Jammeh Reshuffles Cabinet ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. September 17, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gambianow.com
  2. ↑ New SoS For Sports Appointed  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. September 16, 2007@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / sports.gm  
  3. ↑ a b Foroyaa Issue No. 109/2007, September 17-18, 2007 [1]
  4. ↑ Gambia: Gambia U-20 Leave For USA Today ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. June 14, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gambianow.com
  5. ^ Mass Axi Gye Out, Sheriff Gomez Takes Over The Point (online) July 1, 2008
  6. ↑ Abdoulaye Wade President of the Republic of Senegal  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Daily Observer dated May 17, 2010@1@ 2Template: dead link / observer.gm  
personal data
SURNAME Gai, Mass Axi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gye, Mass Axy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Minister and sports official in Gambia
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century