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September 2013

The Regional Chairman-East of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), Mr. Bob Batilo Saffa, who also doubles as the Director of Radio Maria east, during a one day training for over 30 journalists in

In a bid to fulfill their terms and condition and the Company Act of Sierra Leone, one of the diamond mining companies operating in Tongo Field Lower Bambara chiefdom eastern province of the Republic of

The Director of the Overseas Development Institute has called on Barclays Bank to reconsider its decision to close its Somalia accounts, describing the move as 'unwarranted, unnecessary and a threat to some of the world's

Apart from the rumours I have heard and the publication by a Freetown newspaper that the Minister of Transport and Aviation Mr Leonard Balogun Koroma has officially pronounced the ban on the importation of right-hand

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Information and Communications and Government Spokesman, Hon. Alpha B.S Kanu, on Thursday 29th August, 2013 appealed to Information Communication Experts and colleague Ministers of Information Communications Technology and Energy from the

The newly appointed Prime Minister of Senegal Ms Aminata Toure (in photo) has set up a 32 member cabinet following consultations with President Macky Sall and other political stakeholders. Among the top Ministers that lost their

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have called for the release of editor Rodney Sieh from prison in Liberia, a country whose president, Nobel Peace Prize laureate

The Southern Regional Office of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has on Friday 30th August 2013 addressed the community leaders and members of Koribondo Town in the Jiama Bongor chiefdom, Bo District. This event was organized

Schools and colleges in Sierra Leone will stand to benefit some 2000 text books from the United Kingdom. This is part of a charitable gesture from two British nationals Nicolette Bench and Sheralyn Snaith, who made

This press has reliably learnt that corpses are still believed to be buried underneath the debris of the collapsed King Jimmy Bridge.  This disclosure was made by traders and youths during an official visit to

The news doing the rounds of an alleged mutiny by 12 military officers in the Northern District Head Quarter Town of Makeni has attracted negative comment by some sections of the public. It is indeed true

The Islamic Forum-Sierra Leone has prevailed on supporters and fans of Haja Afsatu Kabba, ex-Energy and Fisheries and Marine Resources Minister, across the country, to withhold a protest action, on behalf of the former APC

Founder and Proprietor of the newly established Bess Berry Entertainment Centre located in the Deep Eye Water community, Western Rural, Sulaiman Sesay has denied that  he opened the centre for political gains as rumored by

Stalwarts of the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) have described the party’s recently-concluded convention in Bo as the worst in the history of the party; a situation which they blamed on the poor management

A few days ago, I visited the erudite Reverend Dr. Joseph Gaima Lukulay Moiba in his humble house around Bunumbu Press in Bo where he has been living quietly with his Norwegian wife and children