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November 2010

Following our sequential exposures of the Education Minister’s undue use of office against Board Members of the Sierra Leone Library Board, Sierra Leone’s only book donor agency- Children International, we are told, has sent a

As journalists, we are prone to government raids and unsuspecting surveillances. This, to The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), is of concern and has held them under constant focus, mapping and finding ways of

Dozens of Sierra Leoneans living in Belgium, Holland, France and Germany who are mostly businessmen engaged in exporting goods to Sierra Leone, have complained bitterly on the rampant pilfering and vandalization of their goods and

The first batch of Five Hundred (500) Sierra Leonean pilgrims arrived safely at the Prince Mohamed Bin Abdul Aziz International Airport, Medina on board a special chartered Royal Air Maroc Flight in the early hours

Ibrahim Sorie Kamara, who until 72 hours ago was Acting Commissioner for the Income Tax Department of the National Revenue Authority, has clinched the position of Commissioner for the pending Domestic Tax Department. This department

I hadn’t read the official mouthpiece and propaganda machine of the ruling APC party newspaper “We Yone” for some time until the November 1st edition. The reason is simple; the newspaper consists mainly of articles

Sierra Leone’s new Head of Chancery to the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Austria, Alhassan Kondeh (in photo) has said one of his main priorities in his new appointment is to help re-brand

Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, H.E Jongopie Stevens has disclosed plans for the visit of President Ernest Bai Koroma to Germany in February 2011.  (Photo:  Ambassador Jongopie Stevens and the Chairman

International comedian Gina Yashere will be hosting the long awaited Miss West Africa on the 26th of November 2010. UK will once again be enlightened by the most exciting Africa event in UK exploring beauty

The race for the flagbearership of the main Sierra Leonean opposition, the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), is gradually becoming fearsome.  While some aspirants are described by columnists as academic giants, others are named decorated

21-year-old Mustapha Hadji Bangura last Saturday scored a great hat-trick 3-0 for his side Apollon Limassol in their derby triumph over AEL Limassol. The Sierra Leone international has been playing in Cyprus for five seasons now,

On Sunday October 31st, Hope International Church, based in Dallas Fort Worth with a Sierra Leonean pedigree, made yet another history when it surprised its Senior Pastor, Emmanuel Kwasi Botchway, with a brand new Suzuki

Sierra Leone’s President today stunned a jam-packed Westminster Hall with an astonishing presentation on private investment and economic growth and development in Sierra Leone. Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma was delivering his keynote address at the high-profiled Private

The Ma Dengn Association, organizers of the well acclaimed Ma Dengn Beach Festival 2009, is geared up to produce the highly anticipated 2nd annual festival on December 31st and January 1st 2010 at the Lumley

On Saturday, 23rd Oct. 2010, the USA Caucus for Alpha O Timbo (in photo) proved beyond all reasonable thought that Hon. ALPHA O. TIMBO, among all the other aspirants that have stormed the diaspora so