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April 2013

The best way to fight corruption is to prevent it and one of the best ways to prevent corruption is effective monitoring. Where monitoring is weak, corruption can flourish, but where monitoring is strong, corruption

On Thursday, March 28, Airtel celebrated their Annual Kids Day in grand style at their head office, Wilberforce. The Kids Day is celebrated each year by the Human Resource Manager, Jestina Betts. [caption id="attachment_54778" align="alignnone" width="434"]

People occupying high positions in this country are now the very ones engaged in land grabbing. The High Court of Sierra Leone has ordered the eviction of the General Manager of the National Power Authority, Zubairu

Parrot is a bird with strange and damnable thoughts. This great bird looks at things two-sidedly, not one-sidedly as many Sierra Leoneans do. Many fellow citizens concentrate on the negative sides of Foday Sankoh, neglecting

Celebrated Man of God, Reverend Davidson Conteh of Christ Temple Ministry at Grafton, has admitted that he has defrauded an American-based Sierra Leonean-Lebanese investor, Mr. Shabban, the sum of Le45 million. Confessing his crime to this

In spite of frantic efforts by the Chief Immigration Officer (CIO), Alpha Kolifa Kamara (in photo), to repair the battered image of the Immigration Department, certain money-hungry and unpatriotic immigration officers continue to blemish the

C - Commitment to the satisfaction of subscribers O - observance of the rules governing communication M - Meeting the needs of every category of subscribers I - Increasing access to mobile communication for all U - Understanding the

Accra, Ghana – Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) from Commonwealth countries in West and Central Africa have amplified the need to map out strategic areas of intervention to inform the development agenda in the region. From April

A reminder to President Koroma to run the nation like a business entity Sierra Leone, like most other African countries, is poor because that is the path its people and leaders have chosen.  The governance strategy

Freetown 4 April 2013: - The Speaker of the Sierra Leone Parliament, Hon Justice Abel Stronge, and his Ghanaian counterpart, have been specially appointed to carry out an appraisal visit of all Commonwealth Parliaments in

The Vice President’s performance in Sierra Leone’s governance and development indicators has often gone missing from the front of media relations and public communication.  In 2011, I had a brief interview with him. His relationship

Freetown, 5th April, 2013 — The United Nations and its partners around the world are today observing the milestone of 1,000 days to the end of 2015 – the target date for achieving the Millennium

For the benefit of retailers and customers, Airtel on Monday, March 25, launched  the 7-11 and 199 units at the Stadium Hostels in Freetown. The Sales Manager, Cyril Jengo, said that this product brings good information,

Local workers at the Vimetco Bauxite Mining Company at Gondama, in the Sierra Rutile area, have admitted that they have been terrorized by the sudden comeback of a Romanian expatriate, Misu Plopeanu (in photo), to

Sierra Paradise Resort was established 5 years ago in Yurika, 30 minutes from Lungi International Airport.  Built on a story of romance, Sierra Leonean Samuel Williams and his French wife had a dream for Samuel