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March 2011

We have been informed that the main opposition party, the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) is taking a u-turn to comply with the Supreme Court ruling. The party, we are informed, has drawn up a timetable

Sweet mouthed politicians, in the 2007 Presidential and Parliamentary elections, gave hopeful promises to the electorates in Sierra Leone.  Almost 80% of persons voted for as Parliamentary representatives have had no acquaintance to

A law student of Fourah Bay College (FBC) University of Sierra Leone is in the nets of the police for defrauding Eco Bank of Le7.5 million. Sahr Jimmy, who claimed to be a law student

Fatu, who is believed to be Freetown’s youngest mother, has come under renewed hostilities and is said to have absconded home owing to mounting family pressures. Findings by this press consequent to a publication put out

A hundred years ago today, women across the world took an historic step on the long road to equality. The first ever International Women’s Day was called to draw attention to the unacceptable and often

As a legal brawl grows unrestrained within the circuit of the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) on issues of constitutional violations, minds of strong party stalwarts were distressed soon after the disclosure of the

Diana Konomanyi yesterday debunked press claims that she disrespectfully excluded the names of Sierra Leone’s First Lady and Vice President in the list of persons invited for her ‘soon to come’ inaugural ceremony but admits

Today marks the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day – a day to celebrate the economic, political and social achievements of women from past to present. Around the world thousands of speeches, tributes, events, parties,

Freetown – The National Secretariat of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), wishes to announce that the deadline for payment of membership dues has been extended to Friday 11 March 2011, and urges all

The Electoral Commission of SLAJ has conducted the National elections of WIMSAL on Saturday, March 5, 2011 and the following people have been duly elected for the positions against their names: Sarah Bomkapre Kamara – President

The impact of the fall of Ghaddafi, should it happen, could be equivalent to the impact of the fall of the Soviet Union to Sub-Sahara Africa.  (Photo:  Col. Muamarr Ghaddafi) The sudden transition of the political

Skye Bank’s Olatunjie keeps turning up, like the bad penny.  Is he the new Khadafy of Skye Bank.  Why won’t he just go?  We thought he was gone for good last week, but alas, he

FREETOWN, March 7 (Reuters Life!) - The slopes of Leicester Peak, a protected rainforest on a hill above Sierra Leone's capital, are a jumble of haphazard development and half-finished villas. Concrete buildings cluster against a tangle

Washington DC, Sunday March 6, 2011: Speaking at a meeting of the Sierra Leone Sister Cities Organization in Montgomery County, Maryland today, the indefatigable Honourable Deputy Minister of Information and Communications, Mr. Sheka Tarawalie said

Often he is mentally disturbed; sometimes he is the village jester but with some mental problem all the same. In those local communities whatever happens, whether in joy or in sorrow is shared by all.