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August 2010

Deputy Minister of Information Madam Saidata Sesay (in photo) solicits help for SLENA  -  A week long seminar - 20th – 26th July 2010 with the theme: Actively Guiding Public Opinion and Building up Sound

His name is Mohamed Saccoh aka K-Man or more recently the Bingo Man. (Photo: K-Man wants to answer your questions) He came to the spotlight when he released ‘Bambote’ in 2003 He has gone on to release

Expelled Liberian President Charles Taylor (in photo) ushered his political career from war lord and diamond’s best friend. Arbitrary rule and economic collapse in the 80's culminated in Liberia’s civil war. Dissidents of Taylor’s Patriotic

Dear Colleagues, Partners, and Supporters, 29 July 2010 marked the 5th anniversary since Young Leaders-Sierra Leone (YLSL) was officially launched in Sierra Leone by the then President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, HE Dr Ahmed

Having witnessed a very successful convention where a two month-long democratic process ushered in new leadership; where 21 of the 23 chapters present fully participated in affirming all electoral and other SLPP business discussed in

The occasion of our beloved country’s 50th Independence Anniversary gives all Sierra Leoneans and friends of Sierra Leone an ideal opportunity to come together as one. The Sierra Leone High Commission in London has been tasked

More than 700 people are now known to have died in a massive landslide in north-west China - making it one of the deadliest incidents so far in the country's worst flooding in a decade. A

Emmanuel Adebayor could play for Togo again if the country's football bosses meet certain conditions. The Manchester City striker quit the national side after a terrorist attack on their bus travelling to the African Nations Cup

The world’s most prestigious debating society Oxford Union has invited Sierra Leone’s President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma to give a talk to students in October this year. (Photo: HE President Ernest Bai Koroma) The group says

In an earlier article, I gave a brief account about the Embassy of Sierra Leone in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since its establishment in the late 1970's. My focus in that article was generally

Abuja—President Goodluck Jonathan (in photo), weekend, told the military what they needed to do to qualify as the ‘Nigerian armed forces of my (his) dream’ saying ‘your role in sustaining democracy in the last 10

Media organizations in Sierra Leone exhibited a typical display of negligence and betrayal to the cause for which they were supposedly established, in the matter between a female journalist called Khadijatu Savage and the outgone

“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will neither have good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes

His Excellency the President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma Monday visited the land slide disaster site at Owen Street in Freetown, where two houses collapsed due to heavy down pour of rains. Thirteen people were reported dead

If anyone thinks that the ruling APC would change its ways or listen to constructive criticism, it will be an illusion. They have a set agenda the pursuit of which leaves no room for consultations,