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February 2012

Your love means everything to me than anything else LONELY NIGHTS SPARE ME NO MORE In this life transcends illusions, we are mere passing souls LONELY NIGHTS SPARE ME NO MORE Like a callow in the mist without your

Organizers of Sierra Leone Black Loyalists celebrations are elated over the massive turnout of Sierra Leoneans who thronged Busboys & Poets Café in Washington, DC for what they call a first of its kind commemoration

LUSAKA, Zambia, February 29, 2012/ -- To help improve health care in Zambia, the Global Pharma Health Fund, a charitable initiative funded by the German pharmaceutical, chemical and life science company Merck (http://www.merckgroup.com), has donated

Mogadishu-February 29th, 2012; The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC), Ambassador Boubacar Gaoussou Diarra has learnt with great sadness of the assassination of the Somaliweyn radio director, Abukar Hasan,  a

Six times Grammy award winning artist Whitney Houston has been laid to rest on February 18th in her home state of Newark, New Jersey, USA. Whitney was found dead in her hotel room on the eve

On Saturday 25th February 2012, the Sierra Leone Centre for Agri-business Development (SLeCAD) Executive Secretary Mr. Ahmed Nanoh and his team together with the four-man visionary team from the US visited two ABCs in the

Standard Chartered Bank has launched Securities Services in Cote d’Ivoire, expanding the Bank’s existing regional securities capabilities to include the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) region. Bank expands custody services to cover the West

The Sierra Leone Centre for Agri-business Development (SLeCAD) last Wednesday received four American investors who are in the country to carryout a feasibility study in the areas they want to invest within the agricultural sector. 

The Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs, Hon. Stephen J. Gaojia (in photo) , arrived in New York on Friday February 24  at the head of a Sierra Leone delegation to attend the

Since I was born, the phrase “free and fair elections” have always been forced into my ears but, unfortunately, on the African continent, nobody has ever advocated for a “free and fair election campaigning”. If

The Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat at the end of a one-day workshop on the theme ABC Concept Political Tolerance and Politically Motivated Violence held at the Moyamba District Council Hall on 27th February,

Suddenly, ex-President Jerry Rawlings has had epiphany about the on-going Ghanaian/African enlightenment movement. Face-to-face with some lethal cultural inhibitions that have been demeaning Ghanaians’/Africans’ humanity, Rawlings, in the manner of Archimedes and Isaac Newton, exclaimed

Football and health are not strange bedfellows. In fact, you have to be healthy to be able to play sports.  However, the next generation of footballers, or presidents, lawyers, engineers, doctors, managers, journalists, etc. has

As a mark of its determination and enthusiasm to rid the Northern Region of corruption and corrupt practices, the Anti-Corruption Commission on Friday 24th February, 2012 held customized meeting with staff of the National Fire

The Executive of the Sports Writers Association of Sierra Leone (SWASAL), wishes to inform the general membership and the public at large that the association will not carry out any live commentary on the Sierra