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August 2013

One vice plaguing this nation is the placing of square pegs in round holes, which means putting the wrong people in the right positions. This vice has been contributing immensely to the underperformance of certain

The Resident Minister, East, Mr. William Juana Smith, has said that the good governance programme, Monologue, was misled by the street caller who recently rang and alleged that he, the Minister,   has four solar light

The Vimetco Bauxite Mining Company appears to be embroiled in a protracted power struggle between the Romanians and the South Africans. Inside sources say the company has now changed seven General Managers in two years and

All field staff of the on going Demographic Health Survey (DHS) have been withdrawn and grounded owing to piles of discrepancies in the figures collected so far. It would be recalled that this medium blew

Following the Bank’s response to the Cholera Epidemic last year, at Marbella and Old Wharf communities, over 100 staff of Standard Chartered Bank Sierra Leone, last Saturday 17th August 2013 volunteered at the Congo Town

Sierra Leone’s deputy Information and Communications Minister and Co- Government Spokesman Hon. Theo Nicol has described President Ernest Bai Koroma as a highly principled Sierra Leonean with very strong democratic values- which  have restrained him

The Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) of the African Agriculture Fund (AAF) is pleased to announce a grant of €280,000 to Center Piece Industries Limited (Center Piece) for the implementation of the TAF Smallholder Oil Palm

The Bondo Secret Society is one of the customary and traditional heritages of the current generation of Sierra Leoneans. The Bondo Secret Society has a very long history, and the interesting side of it is that

One of Sierra Leone’s greatest entertainment Idols, Franklyn Williams, popularly known as ‘Rumpel’ in an exclusive interview with this reporter, on August 19, 2013 revealed his plans to continue to thrill his audience in the

The Anti-Corruption Commission  (ACC) has on Tuesday the 20th August 2013 successfully held a customized sensitization meeting with officers and personnel of the NFF at their Eastern Regional Headquarter offices, Government Reservations in Kenema. The

London Mining Company (LMC) in continuing its support to the Lunsar community last week installed two more culverts at the Technical Bypass Road and the Haul Road to forestall flooding in the town. During a conducted

Let me start by congratulating Chief Alhaji Bai Shabora Somano Kapen III for his victory as party Chairman and Leader ; a man who has rendered and sacrificed so much for the SLPP. In the

Even though foreign analysts say that the African pie (that is how our resources are now being defined) is too big for anyone to fret about, reading updates of developments in Guinea and Kenya regarding

August 11, 2013, Texas, USA - Following a surprising resignation of the former group leader, Mr. Mambu J. Koroma, it was of general consensus by members that an election to have new executive members to

President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has called on the leadership of the SLPP, including all stakeholders to observe law and order during their party convention scheduled to commence in Bo City on Friday 16th August,