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 Yokoâ€; 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
The Executive Governor Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) of Lagos State the Commercial centre of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has expressed delight for the President Ernest Bai Koroma’s Government momentum in keeping with democratic
The Defence Liberian Witness testifying in Mr. Charles Taylor’s case under anonymity has denied a Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission report that the RUF committed the highest number of violations ranging from rape to
Three candidates from the All Peoples Congress APC, Sierra Leone Peoples Party-SLPP and the Peoples Movement for Democratic Change-PMDC are to contest the parliamentary bye elections on Saturday in Constituency Thirty-three in the Bombali District. According
The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), the agency statutorily charged with solid Waste Management in Africa’s populous state, Lagos, has expressed its willingness to help build the capacity of waste control personnel of Freetown City
Address by His Excellency the President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma at the Launching of the Sierra Leone Western Area Peninsula Forest Reserve and its Watershed Friday March 19, 2010 Courtesies I feel honored to be here today
Freetown, Sierra Leone 20th March2010: The Open Government Initiative (OGI) on Saturday 20th March 2010 held its usual open dialogue with Members of Parliament and Councilors in the Western Urban of Freetown, at the Wellington
Prince Koi Senessie, a twenty-five year old remand prisoner, was on Sunday morning found hanging in his cell at the Kailahun State Prisons. Senessie was answering larceny charges involving property worth over two million Leones, before
All through our lives we go through the education process, formally and informally. In school we are taught several laws, theories and history. At seminars, short courses and workshops we are exposed to further learning
Support for Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Lars Lagerback has continued to mount with former chairman of Nigeria Football Association, NFA, Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima adding his voice to those who are calling for a free hand for
