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March 2010

Jay-Z has hinted that he may invest millions in Arsenal. The rap superstar, married to Beyonce, already holds a stake in basketball's New Jersey Nets and may splash some of his estimated £500million fortune on the

Sometimes around August of last year, I wrote a piece on Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Relations, Zainab Bangura, in relation to her work in that ministry and the extent to which, at the time

Please allow me some space in your widely-read paper to comment on the article you posted on March 10, 2010 with the title: Saudi Arabia: Sierra Leonean Joins 500 in Scientific Conference. (Photo: (Photo: Sheik

“What goes around comes around,” this is an adage that I am never ready to use in my conversation, and it is only the APC government that is forcing me to use it because of

As part of its mandate under section 7 (2) (f) of the Anti-Corruption Act 2008, the Anti-Corruption Commission has carried out a systems review to three institutions namely, Ministry of Local Government, Internal Affairs and

I would like to reiterate to my fellow colleagues who are currently holding positions of trust in our nation’s government offices of political trust, this president and his able team in his Political Power House

The government of Sierra Leone, through the Western Area Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has opted to promote secondary school agricultural practice as part of the development of agriculture in the

UNIDO Director-General Kandeh K. Yumkella (photo) will commence his mission to Sierra Leone which will take him, from 12 to 16 March 2010. In Freetown, the Director-General will have bilateral meetings with the Government to follow-up

The Sierra Leone community at home and abroad were stunned to read from many foreign news outlets reporting the death of about two hundred people who had been killed in a mining accident in Baomahun

Medical practitioners and nurses in the Western Area last week commenced a sit down strike for what they described as their ‘poor conditions of service’ and the government’s failure to address their welfare. Some doctors and

‘’You have been bribed to testify in defence of Charles Taylor’’, Prosecution Lawyer, Nicholas Kumjian told the Defence Gambian Witness testifying under anonymity as he resumed his cross-examination on Friday. The Prosecution Lawyer also said

The United Nations Integrated Peace Building Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL)’s, has reacted to an article published in the Standard Times Newspaper of Monday 15 March 2010 entitled “Hilton to manage Mammy Yoko”; countering claims

Two senior officials of the National Elections Watch (NEW) (a local election monitor), appeared before a Freetown Court presided over by Magistrate Henry Sandy on defamatory libel charges. The officials include the Spokesperson Ngolo Katta

The Chairman of the Transitional Management Team for the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation has disclosed that one hundred and sixty nine skeletal staff from the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service (SLBS) and United Nations Radio are

I participated in a weekend Retreat at Javouhey House which is a Guest House run by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cloney. It is situated about two thirds of the distance to the top