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September 2009

Because of the serious over crowing in the maximum Pademba Road Prison in Freetown, the Sierra Leone Prisons has been provided with funds to build an alternate penitentiary facility in Magburaka, in the Tonkolili District,

Lungi community, considered as the gateway into Sierra Leone has been blighted by sprees of armed robbery attacks, cases of burglaries and daylight snatching of handbags both from commuters and visitors coming into Sierra Leone,

Ibrahim Sorie Barrie, a pupil at the Teachers Banta Primary School at Fourah Bay Road, in Freetown, who resides with his parents at 22 Lower Easton Street, is presently suffering from serious burns on both

Education in the country for the past two years has been tagged as the most retrogressive sector in the country. This is evident from the poor outcome in examinations in the country. In recent times,

The social-economic and political development of this country must be seen as something that depends on the collaborative efforts of us all as a people, irrespective of our political beliefs and convictions. For a very

I read comrade, Lawyer Iscandri's article of Saturday, September 19, on the Cocorioko online tabloid, titled - "Lawyer Iscandari says APC national authority has the right to ban APC -NA," and I felt a responsibility

As the saying goes - "The head of an elephant is no easy load for a child". We have seen the truth and reality of the above saying in the manner in which the so-called

Football legend Diego Maradona received a frosty reception during a stay in Italy after police confiscated the £3,600 earrings he was wearing as part of dogged efforts to recover £28 million in unpaid taxes. Italian

Today I would like my readers to join me to continue the celebrations of the ruling APC party's two years in office. I will begin by congratulating the His Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma for

I am staring this piece by congratulating the President as he celebrated his two years in office yesterday. Governance is a process, just like wanting to get development. Within two years, good things have occurred

ERRATA! ALISTEAIR DARLING, NOT DAVID MILLIBAND IS THE BRITISH CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER. Puawui would like to apologize to his readers for the error in his last column "SLPP needs no Lecture!" and thanks to

The Attitudinal and Behavioral Change Secretariat has on Wednesday 16th September visited the National Airport at Lungi to update the workers about the importance of attitudinal and behavioral change for the development of the country,

When Ambassador Bockarie Stevens decided to dissolve the APC North America branch and replaced it with a Five Chapter Committee with a Caretaker Executive, I am assuming he must have consulted with the best brains

Njala University, one of the two universities in the country has been marred by unchecked corruption, a strange occurrence that is being condoned by the university administration; leaving no one to account for the burst

[caption id="attachment_312" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Brima M. Turay"][/caption] Clichés are sometimes defined as overused idiomatic expressions, often dismissed as monotonous and lacking substance. However, certain clichés carry their meaning of significance regardless of when and where they