Sierra Leone will soon be celebrating its 51 years of independence, yet good governance, democracy and development are as elusive as the civil liberty that many other countries take so much for granted. Despite vast
From the north of the Limpopo, right down to the south of the Sahara, pre-colonial empires have risen and fallen. There was the Songhai, the Mutapa, Ghana, Mali and right down to the Mamana Empire.
The Deputy Minister of Information and Communication, Hon. Sheka Tarawalli, last Friday held talks with the presidential and government press corps in the United States of America. The meeting, which was meant to build more
“Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth their vote has as much weight as that of any CEO, any
The Alliance for Migration, Leadership and Development (AMLD) has launched the capacity building of actors in intra-regional Management of the free movement of persons and rights of residence and establishment within The Economic Community of
Freetown – The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists has expressed serious concern over the continued membership of two people on the Board of Trustees of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation. At a General Meeting held at
Recently, St Joseph’s Secondary School Alumni Association of USA and Canada, after conducting a video documentary on the condition of the school held a major fundraising campaign named ‘Operation Sponsor a Chair.’ Due to their
The brutality and savagery of the past 11 years of a destructive war in Sierra Leone will not permit any patriotic and peace- loving Sierra Leonean to wish for a repeat of such a sadistic
A serial sex offender who attacked 11 women in five years has been deported to his native Sierra Leone, the Home Office has said. Mohammed Kendeh, 25, of Peckham, south London, admitted indecently assaulting 11 women
Despite critics’ debates among Diasporas around the world concerning the awesome contributions of President Ernest Bai Koroma’s administration in Sierra Leone, I have seen that there is much more ongoing progress in Sierra Leone today
The World Bank and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) have again lent their support to Sierra Leone’s unprecedented opportunity for transformation and sustained growth, by making available the sum of thirty four
President Koroma has been exposed for machinating the removal of the United Nations envoy to Sierra Leone Michael von der Schulenburg. Reuters’ news is quoted as saying that in a letter written to the United Nations
Four out of six prosecution witnesses Monday 13th told High Court 2 that Lansana Fadika (in photo) is their Bra - their financier and most respected man. Fadika, who doubles as complainant in a matter of
On a day that Tottenham Hotspur emphatically announced their arrival to the high table of English football with a thumping hammering of Newcastle FC, it was sad that the talk was all about “the handshake”
A son of SLPMB in Calaba Town stretching to Allen Town, one of Sierra Leone’s hardworking and patriotic sons of Constituency 96, Dr. Alpha Sorie Koroma is all set to enter mainstream politics with an
