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December 2009

The series of sporting events that took place at the National Stadium, which saw school pupils engaging in reckless display of indiscipline, shows there is a big problem for Sierra Leone. The problem of indiscipline in

Food Security takes a step In and attempt to ensure food security for all in Sierra Leone, the Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute and other partners have commissioned five new cassava processing centers. These processing centers

Members of the House of Parliament in Sierra Leone on Wednesday December 16 approved the Appropriation Act 2010, authorizing expenditure from the consolidated fund for the service of Sierra Leone for the 2010 financial year. 

As our president was witnessing the graduation of our future leaders few days ago, so do the young graduates (especially nurses and doctors), were simultaneously preparing to abandon the people they were trained to serve

Sierra Leone: Ready for tourism, Ready for business, Ready for you!    

African Minerals Limited (AIM:AMI), the mineral exploration and development company with significant iron ore and base metal interests in Sierra Leone, West Africa,  has been awarded the prestigious International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) Award 2009 recognised by the United Nations.  African

As a native born of Kono District, I have followed with keen interest the issue bordering on the disqualifying of Madam Elizabeth Simbiwa Shorgboh Torto to contest the now gone and forgotten paramount chieftaincy election

It was the day that they’ve waited for.  After months of planning and preparations, the prestigious Williams Hall at the Greenbelt Holiday Inn was the location for the Koya Descendants Convention. As they arrived from different

I am looking at this issue from a political standpoint.  It is political because, when the APC-led government of President Ernest Bai Koroma shall finally decide to appoint Professor Septimus Kai Kai as the head

The last batch of 23 Sierra Leonean pilgrims departed the Hajj Terminal of the King Abdul Aziz International Airport, Jeddah, Thursday, 17th December 2009 at about 4:00 a.m.  Saudi Arabian local time. (Photo: Leader of

Two strong men in the All People’s Congress (APC) received gifts (plaques) in the holy land of Mecca from the party’s Saudi Arabia branch shortly after the completion of their “Hajj” rituals. Presenting the gifts on

O My GOD! They’ve done it, by whose inspiration I have no idea. But to me a new day has dawned in the practice of journalism in Sierra Leone. I won't call it a revolution

If I was the President of our Sierra Leone I would have been preparing to broadcast a message of greetings to all my fellow citizens and to wish them a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous

Sierra Leone should be the best of examples when it comes to narrating the effect of a bloody civil war, and the effect that military intervention had on us. Our civil war must serve as

The Silver Age Be Friendly Project initiated by the Bombali Development Association, has been launched last Saturday, 12th December 2009, in grand style. (Photo: Social Secretary Jamal Jalloh and out-going High Commissioner Melvin Chalobah) Launched by