a
Your trusted place for Sierra Leone and global news
Home2010November (Page 17)

November 2010

The above headline caught my attention as I was surfing through the SLPP mouthpiece online newspaper;” the New People”. When I first saw the headline, I was eager to know what is so special that

Steve Tilson experienced defeat for the first time as Lincoln City manager as the Imps lost 2-0 to Northampton Town on Tuesday night. The result means Tilson’s side dropped into the relegation zone in League

He had not made a goal since August 12th, but when needed most, Par Cederqvist Jönköping Södra's top scorer was on target for his side last Sunday, his goal was a vital three points for

You’ve been in power for three years now and you told the nation of Sierra Leone that you should be judged or evaluated after three years in office; this is what I want to do

The Mano River Union member States are presently engaged in a three day validation strategic action plan discussion in Monrovia. Over 20 participants from Sierra Leone, Cote D’Ivoire, Guinea and Liberia early this week converged at

For successive past three weekends, 30 Zain subscribers have walked away with thirty individual enviable prizes from the ‘Zain Change is in the Air’ Promotion. These are the second & third batch of winners of

Here are quotations from Tuesday’s edition of two newspapers. “When the SLPP was in power it appointed SLPP supporters from the north and the rest of the country in various capacities but when the APC is

This is neither a symbolism of the inability of blind people nor is it intended to disparage the capabilities of the visually impaired. Rather, it is to question the efficacy of the vision of those

Indigenes of constituency 35 in Kambia District have recalled APC’s undue inconvenience on them in 1976; seeing same making a repeat at Matham village. It could be recalled that the APC during the periods of one

Associate Professor and Principal of College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS), Dr. Balia Leigh, once standing trial for misappropriation of college finances, past Tuesday raised his head in jubilation after findings of Magistrate

A discovery of corruption maneuvers by officials of the Anti Corruption Commission says that money to the tune of Le 80 million has been chopped. Officials charged with the task of providing top up credits for

Work at the Immigration Department came to a halt Monday minutes after a senior staff of Immigration was denied access to her office. Investigation by this press disclosed that Veronica Jallah was denied access to Immigration

In a bid to address key corruption issues at the Northern Polytechnic, the Anti-Corruption Commission has engaged all heads of departments. At a meeting held at the Commission’s Regional Office in Makeni on Tuesday 2nd November

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