a
Your trusted place for Sierra Leone and global news
Home2010August (Page 14)

August 2010

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,

The Independent Media Commission called an Emergency Board Meeting today, Friday 6th August 2010 at which Editors of the Torchlight Newspaper and the Unity Newspaper were summoned to discuss (a) the publication of the Torchlight

(Aug. 9) -- Mia Farrow contradicted Naomi Campbell's testimony at the war crimes trial of former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor today, saying the model had told her how she had received a "huge diamond" from

Manoj Kohli, Bharti Airtel Chief Executive and other senior Executives of Bharti Airtel on Thursday, 29th July 2010 jet into Freetown for the second time in about four weeks interval of their first visit. This

The Installation of 98.1 clandestine radio station on Monday 7th July 1997 as a propaganda outlet of the dethroned SLPP didn’t only boost the morale of the pro-government militias (Kamajors) and the Nigerian pre-dominant ECOMONG

Amidst the murder-suicide madness perpetuated by one of Sierra Leone’s greatest comedians, supposedly a public figure in the eyes of most Sierra Leoneans, many people in the Dallas Fort worth community have expressed their desires,

Two Sierra Leonean kids expressed their excitement at meeting Premier League Club Portsmouth striker, Nwankwo Kanu. Foday Sesay and Ibrahim Sorie Sesay say it was their best experience meeting the Nigerian superstar at a shopping centre

There may have been other important events occurring during the past week but for us in the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party SLPP, THE EVENT was the reopening of our rehabilitated and refurbished party headquarters

As a Sierra Leonean Muslim who has worked with most of the Hajj agents as far back as in the late 1970’s, I want to highlight some important and burning issues regarding the abnormalities that