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October 2010

The Afsatu Kabba corruption matter has ended in the High Court but the verdict is still being widely debated. In part one of this piece, the Roaming Pen in an objective wit highlighted sequence

Barely one year after Sierra Leone organised one of Africa’s most successful investment conferences in London, another one is in the pipeline with the same purpose of not only attracting investment into Sierra Leone, but

Sierra Leone’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom has presented credentials to the King of Norway. At a special one-on-one meeting at the Royal Palace in Oslo, Edward Mohamed Turay said he was delighted to present

In an effort to meet its corporate social responsibility to the country, Africell Sierra Leone last Friday presented Hajj packages to two winners. Speaking at the company’s head offices at Wilberforce, the Administrative Director, Mr. A.A. Gibes said

In 2011, Sierra Leone celebrates 50 years of ‘independence’ from the United Kingdom.  Should we be celebrating ‘independence’, or, should we be mourning our festering ‘dependence’ on the former colonial overlord, Britain?  During the height

The Sierra Leone People’s Party, North America branch, has gathered several tons of medical equipment and supplies, some of which sat unused at the Methodist Child Medical Center in Dallas, and has shipped them

Sierra Leone's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Middle East and the Gulf States, H.E. Wusu B. Munu, Friday, 22nd October, 2010, hosted Sierra Leoneans in Riyadh to a Strategic Planning Meeting for this

The indomitable and determined President-Elect, Yabom Thaslim Koroma and her corps of APC Washington, DC Metropolitan chapter officials hosted Honorable Martin Bash Kamara, Deputy Minister of Energy and Power of the Republic of Sierra Leone

For Anthony Charles Labor, the search for the right woman came to an end when he met the daughter of former president of the Republic of Sierra Leone Alhaji Ahmed Tejan-Kabba, in Somerset, New Jersey.

The Augustine Boss Fallay led administration of the Sierra Leone People’s Party in North America, on Thursday, October 21, 2010 loaded sundry medical equipment valued at Eight hundred million Leones (two hundred thousand US Dollars)

Within the last two weeks, I have read, with very keen interest, the different articles on John Oponjo Benjamin’s personal and political life but I was more drawn to the claims on his personal life

The Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission (GGCHCC) will select a Preferred Alternative at its fourth 2010 quarterly meeting in Brunswick, GA, at 9 a.m., on November 19.  The meeting, open to the public, will be

In a bid to give back to the people of Sierra Leone as part of our Corporate Social Responsibility, Zain through its Build Our Nation initiative targeted the Junior Secondary School (JSS) sector and donated

Two Sierra Leoneans collided last Sunday in the Nowegian Tippeligaen division, Leone Stars Alfred Sankoh’s new side Stromsgodset continued to add misery to fellow Sierra Leoenean Umaru Zaingallya Bangura’s Honefoss BK side. Strømsgodset was the

Sheriff Suma Sierra Leonean international with Sodra IF in the Swedish superettan last Saturday play their final match of the season 2010 that ended with a big victory, 4-1 against Landskrona BoIS at home in