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January 2010

The death toll from an attack on Togo's football team as they travelled in Angola has risen from one to three, reports say. (Photo: Emmanuel Adebayor, (right), escaped injury but was visibly shocked) The team bus

Introduction Low-income countries or LICs have income per capita not more than $875 on an annual basis (World Bank 2006).  By simply this, a layman can assume that people living in a nation that is within

Please give me space in your widely read newspaper to express my sentiments to some of my fellow compatriots in Saudi Arabia. I read in your paper this morning a banner headline "Ernest Koroma?s government scores

Slogan: Watin GOD say nar in go be en watin be nar in GOD say! Fellow countrymen and friends of our beloved country, as we say good bye to 2009 with great expectations for the future

In her recent visit to perform Islam’s fifth pillar, Hajj or pilgrimage, the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Haja Zainab Hawa Bangura and some members of her delegation received gifts from the

The Togolese football team bus has faced a disastrously  attack by a well armed rebel group in Cabinda, Angola immediately after crossing into the country from its neighboring country Dr Congo where the Togolese football

Mr. Editor, Please allow me space on your online news print to thank Mr. Joseph Sherman of Washington DC, US for his quick response to Mr. Umaru Sitta Turay Editor of the New People Newspaper,

As Sierra Leone continues to reel under what experts have referred to as the “second round effect” of the world financial crisis (one of the worst in history), adversely affecting our balance of trade deficit

I am not a businessman, nor am I an importer or exporter. I keep repeating that people are not in business for health reasons; they are there to make profit which is not bad in

The much talked about GST came into action on 1st January 2010 amidst numerous speculations as to whether it will at all come into fruition. The GST unit in the National Revenue Authority before now

The government of President Ernest Bai Koroma recorded some successful achievements in the year just gone, mainly in the area of providing “Clean Electricity” to parts of Freetown and its environs. It was as a result of his

The first Sierra Leonean to be elected a Freeholder in the United States of America has taken the oath of office. (Photo: Mohamed S. Jalloh, courtesy of  Jim Lowney of Union County, USA) Mohamed S. Jalloh

One of the most astonishing statements made by the former British Prime Minister during the recent Trade and Investment Conference in London was that Sierra Leone should no longer be seen from a past perspective.

Sierra Leone joined Muslim scholars, government officials, and diplomats in cleaning the Holy Kaa'ba in the city of Mecca last Saturday, 2nd January, 2010. Representing the Ambassador, H.E Wusu B. Munu, who couldn't attend due to

Sierra Leone's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia yesterday joined over 100 diplomats from different missions at the Indonesian Embassy in Riyadh to sign a Book of Condolence opened in honour of the late