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September 2010

Our President Ernest Bai Koroma recently earned a Millennium Development Goal (MDG) laurel for Sierra Leone for giving high visibility to the HIV/AIDS ‘war’ by his chairing our National Aids Secretariat body.   By living to

The pilot survey was financed and undertaken by Foundation for Democratic Initiatives and Development (FDID-SL) a civil society organization that works to enhance citizen’s participation and involvement in upholding and promoting a sustainable development culture

Toronto -- September 24, 2010: "LIL X" the award winning music video director, whose eye for creative imagery put him at the top of his game, is making a change.    He will be known

Exchanging text messages across Sierra Leone and beyond has been made easier following the successful reduction of tariff on both data and voice calls through Zain’s Fambul Tariff. With Zain’s enviable tariff, text messages are

The Caine Prize for African writers, regarded as African Booker Prize, was born in 2000, and named in memory of the late Michael Caine, who was chairman of the Booker Prize Committee for about 25

The new Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) boss Joseph F Kamara said ten personalities in Government that are Minister’s and parliamentarians refuse to comply with the president’s call on asset declaration which tells the Commission about

Police officers attached to law court have been accused as acting as court clerks in a bid to get money from persons eager to have their relatives bailed. In the face of efforts by the Justice

‘Yellow Journalism,’ professionals call it, illustrates conduct of novices who say they are journalists. A case to reflect is one in the front page of The Spectator News - “NAS Accountant in Unlawful Dismissal,” published Thursday

As the saying goes water is life, the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources have had over two subversive water pump and other materials for the speedy provision of clean and pure drinking pipe borne

Distortions through deception in Macbeth William Shakespeare's play, Lady Macbeth and the three witches destroy lives by their acts of deceit to create corruption, violence and an upset in the balance of good and evil.

African Minerals Limited (AIM:AMI), the iron ore project development company that is developing the Tonkolili project in Sierra Leone, West Africa, is pleased to announce that, further to its press releases of 13 July 2010

Our family recently returned from a privately-financed trip to Sierra Leone.  We went to renew our relationships with the people in Sinkunia and assess the progress on the project.  We have good news to share

The Director of the Open Government Initiative, Ms. Khadija Sesay has called on all Sierra Leoneans in the New York/New Jersey Metropolis and other parts of the continental United States to attend Saturday’s Open Government

We are, as a nation, in a post war reconstruction period. We have got the institutional reforms in place, but these institutional reforms should be made to work and I think they have been working.

There is now ongoing frenetic activity with plans for the 50th Independence Anniversary celebrations of the Republic of Sierra Leone in 2011.  In a country where the economy imploded in the 1980s and exploded in