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June 2017

10 -year-old football starlet, Sanusie Jabbie with roots from Sierra Leone has for the soccer time in a row been voted as player of the year, parent’s player of the year, and player’s player of

I have only understood the way a Ministry of Country and Town Planning works through my travel to other countries. In Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Rwanda, the Ministry of Country and Town Planning designs

Sierra Leone have started on a good note with their opening match for the 2018 qualifier of the African Nations Cup after beating Kenya 2-1 at the jam-packed Siaka Stevens Stadium in Freetown on Saturday

Qatar has the highest per capita income in the world! I arrived here in Doha this evening on transit after 14 hours of travel from Washington DC.Qatar has used its oil revenue to invest heavily

Sawm (fasting), the fourth basic duty of Islam is another act of 'Ibdah. All adult Muslims must fast from dawn to sunset every day of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. This means

The role that the leader of the Alliance Democratic Party (ADP), Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray, is now playing on the political arena seems to be akin to the role the leader of the Peoples Movement for

There is the saying that new broom sweeps clean, that is, a person in new position is inclined to make reforms. Now that Sierra Leone’s new Ombudsman, Melron Nicol-Wilson, has embarked on a series of reforms

A gold miner in Ngo Town, Kono District, has appeared before Magistrate Dr. Abu Bakarr Binneh Kamara on a count indictment of Human Trafficking Contrary to Section 2(1) of the Anti-Human Trafficking Act 2005. The accused

The Lebanese Community in Sierra Leone headed by Mr. Samir Hassaniyeh, on Tuesday, May 30th, 2017, donated food items worth over one hundred and twenty million Leones (LE120, 000,000) to 34 Mosques in Freetown. Some

Head of the Society for Democratic Initiatives (SDI), legal luminary Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai, has described the attitude of the Sierra Leone Police as outdated, draconian and not necessary in a Democracy. He made the statement past

The Director General of the Sierra Leone Civil Aviation Authority, Abu Bakarr Kamara, in an exclusive interview told this medium that the $40 that the Government of Sierra Leone is announcing to be added to

In Sierra Leone, two general elections have been contested in ten years, a situation that is not good for our budding democracy. In 2007, the SLPP cried foul that the elections were massively rigged due

The Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority (SLRSA) has been expending colossal sums of taxpayers’ money on road safety campaigns to reduce the number of road crashes in the country but have the campaigns been yielding

On Thursday, 25th May, 2017, the Society for Democratic Initiatives (SDI) launched a report on the performance of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Civil Society Organizations I (CSOs).   This report titled, ‘Defending Civil Society Report, 2016,’

The Media Committee Chairman for the Revolutionary United Front Party (RUFP), James Samuel Cole, has informed colleagues in the media that his party is well prepared for the forthcoming 2018 general elections.  (Photo: RUFP Media