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February 2012

Six times Grammy award winning artist Whitney Houston has been laid to rest on February 18th in her home state of Newark, New Jersey, USA. Whitney was found dead in her hotel room on the eve

On Saturday 25th February 2012, the Sierra Leone Centre for Agri-business Development (SLeCAD) Executive Secretary Mr. Ahmed Nanoh and his team together with the four-man visionary team from the US visited two ABCs in the

Standard Chartered Bank has launched Securities Services in Cote d’Ivoire, expanding the Bank’s existing regional securities capabilities to include the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) region. Bank expands custody services to cover the West

The Sierra Leone Centre for Agri-business Development (SLeCAD) last Wednesday received four American investors who are in the country to carryout a feasibility study in the areas they want to invest within the agricultural sector. 

The Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs, Hon. Stephen J. Gaojia (in photo) , arrived in New York on Friday February 24  at the head of a Sierra Leone delegation to attend the

Since I was born, the phrase “free and fair elections” have always been forced into my ears but, unfortunately, on the African continent, nobody has ever advocated for a “free and fair election campaigning”. If

The Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat at the end of a one-day workshop on the theme ABC Concept Political Tolerance and Politically Motivated Violence held at the Moyamba District Council Hall on 27th February,

Suddenly, ex-President Jerry Rawlings has had epiphany about the on-going Ghanaian/African enlightenment movement. Face-to-face with some lethal cultural inhibitions that have been demeaning Ghanaians’/Africans’ humanity, Rawlings, in the manner of Archimedes and Isaac Newton, exclaimed

Football and health are not strange bedfellows. In fact, you have to be healthy to be able to play sports.  However, the next generation of footballers, or presidents, lawyers, engineers, doctors, managers, journalists, etc. has

As a mark of its determination and enthusiasm to rid the Northern Region of corruption and corrupt practices, the Anti-Corruption Commission on Friday 24th February, 2012 held customized meeting with staff of the National Fire

The Executive of the Sports Writers Association of Sierra Leone (SWASAL), wishes to inform the general membership and the public at large that the association will not carry out any live commentary on the Sierra

Justice Philip Nyamu Waki (in photo), a prominent Kenyan jurist, was sworn in on Monday as an alternate judge of the Special Court’s Appeals Chamber.  Justice Waki made his solemn declaration before Registrar Binta Mansaray at

African Union (AU) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Special Envoys to observe, monitor and interact with actors, stakeholders and other related institutions for Senegal’s February 26th2012 Presidential election, had met with African

Floating the Koidu diamond mine in Sierra Leone is part of a wider expansion plan, says Beny Steinmetz in a rare interview. The plans include natural resources in Myanmar and large investments in Liberia. In

An international watchdog Global Witness says it's uncomfortable with entrusting the management and utilization of Liberia's future oil revenues into the hands of the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCA)L. Barely a week after African Petroleum