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August 2015

A contractor in Mattru Jong, Bonthe District, John Gbonda, has vowed to drag to court the Bonthe District office of the National Ebola Response Center (NERC) for failing to pay him the sum of 146

The Lady Ellen Women’s Aid Foundation (LEWAF) was founded in 2008 but formally established in January, 2014, with the mission to tackle violence against women using four thematic areas, prevention, protection, response and advocacy. According to

Sexual abuse of children has become rife nowadays in Sierra Leone with the latest incident involving a 40-year- old man sexually abusing a six-year-old child; the self-confessed pedophile, identified as Ibrahim alias Somalia, has been

Two young rapists, Mohamed Kargbo, 21 years and Santiqie Sesay, 19 years, have been found guilty by the Freetown High Court presided over by Justice Sam Margai. According to court records, the accused persons on diverse

The sporadic long fuel queues are no longer foreigners in this republic; they have long gained first class citizenship as they have been living with us from the days of Siaka Probyn Bandele Stevens to

Sierra Leone courts are flooded with rape cases and other related sexual offences; our rapists are apparently on the rampage sparing no soul, these apparent sex maniacs have now resorted to sexually penetrating and abusing

In this modern technological world, fuel is the blood of every country; just as a human being cannot live without blood, a country cannot survive without fuel. Therefore, the scarcity of such commodity threatens the

Sierra Leonean duo Sheriff Suma and Samuel Barley rejoined Azerbaijani Premiership Club Raven FC for the second time, penning a year deal. The club confirmed the transfer of the Sierra Leonean Defender and Midfielder on their

Dallas, Texas, USA: August 16, 2015. Restore Hope, a non-profit organization that is heavily operating in Sierra Leone, has in collaboration with many other church ministries ended a 2-day post Ebola strategy summit in Arlington,

Sierra Leone’s new Ghanaian caretaker, coach Sallas Teteh, is expected in town today Monday 17 August to unveil sometime this week and also to start preparation for Leone Stars 2017 Afcon qualifiers against reigning African

Sierra Leone’s most popular and influential international gospel female musician, Millicent Rhodes, in a recent interview with this press pleads with governments and NGOs stating that the issue of trauma and poverty caused by the

If President Koroma has wisely decided not to run a third term, then he must try to remain impartial in the upcoming All Peoples Congress (APC) flag bearer contest for which many big names have

The near end of Ebola is not good news for a lot of people who have made fortune out of the dreaded Ebola killer viral epidemic. The survival of these people has been endangered by

Apparently, the Government of Sierra Leone has lost the war against street trading, otherwise, Abacha Street, would not have been overflowing with traders who have transformed the main street into a permanent market place from

Although political observers have often classed Sierra Leone as a country of corruption and administrative ineptitude, leaving out the most heinous crime, that of tailoring the process of transfer of leadership from one Head of