a
Your trusted place for Sierra Leone and global news
Home2013January (Page 10)

January 2013

The attention of the Leadership of the All People's Congress (APC) United Kingdom/Northern Ireland Branch has been drawn to the disturbing news in which a group of individuals attempted to discredit the executive of the

Sierra Leoneans began to embark on educational journeys to the Arab world in the early 1960’s. The majority found it easier to head towards the then Egypt of President Gamal Abdul Nasser. And it is

What appears to be a disagreement has emerged  between the African  Petroleum(AP) and the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) as it relates to the latest progress in the drilling program of AP. Mr. Robert

Call for entries open for 2014 Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value: Nominate innovative initiatives in nutrition, water or rural development VEVEY, Switzerland, January 14, 2013/ -- The Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value (http://www.nestle.com/csv/csvprize) is

Stephan Weber appointed as the Group's Chief Operating Officer with effect from 1 February 2013. Mr Weber was most recently chief executive officer of Anglo American Iron Ore Brazil, and prior to that a managing director

It is stated in Chinua Achebe’s Novel, “Things Fall Apart”, that “The Lizard that Jumps from the high Iroko tree to the ground said it will praise itself if no one else did”; but this

Dear Editor: Please allow me to use your newspaper to make an appeal to H.E. the President, Dr Ernest Bai Koroma for a review of Presidential decision to locate a new airport at Mamamh.  (Photo:

Many countries in the world have some sort of National Service designed to encourage citizens to pay back to their respectable countries in the midst to enhance patriotism. Nigeria one of our closest cousins in

The clock is ticking and the years are rolling slowly before an era of prosperity rolls over to an era of a developed Sierra Leone in 2017. God willing, Amen. This and many more positive

The executives of the Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat stormed the 2 Infantry Battalion situated in the outskirt of Kenema city in the morning hours of Wednesday 9thJanuary 2013 to lecture on democracy, good

It is true that without people’s participation, democracy cannot deliver to it potential. And the fact that Sierra Leoneans participated in the past November polls in high numbers demonstrate their commitment to the democratic dispensation

Addis Ababa, 11 January 2013 - Where and how do we get to that prosperous Africa by 2063, and what will be the different roles of AUC, ECA and AfDB 50 years from now?  The

The Agenda for Prosperity is explicit in terms of government’s readiness to deepening the country’s democracy and rule of law. Generally, prosperity and stability are a far cry in any state that is neither democratic

The Commission wishes it to be known by the general public that on the 4th December 2012 it received a letter of complaint from a cross section of members belonging to the United Democratic Party

The newly inaugurated Chairman of Bo District Council, Joseph Munda Bindi, has said that until and unless central government practicalizes the devolution of some of the functions of the Sierra Leone Roads Authority (SLRA) to