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May 2017

It cannot be gainsaid that the Sierra Leone Teachers Union (SLTU) is one of the biggest, wealthiest and most powerful trade unions in Sierra Leone. Having manpower of over 35 thousand teachers on pay roll, the

Sierra Leone’s President, His Excellency, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has made history in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the first African leader to make two official visits to the Kingdom in two weeks. Two official

"Fellow citizens, for over 23 years we have been misruled by an oppressive, corrupt, exploitative and tribalistic bunch of crooks and traitors, under the umbrella of the APC (All people's Congress) government. This regime has perpetuated

The new Chairman of the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC), Justice Patrick Hamilton, has admitted that he has never seen electricity in the PPRC office since he took up office weeks ago. He made the confession

Diaspora Health Workers Invited to Sierra Leone Over the years, there has been a mass exodus of health workers from Sierra Leone mainly due to deplorable working conditions. Thousands of them have left their homeland to

The Public Relation Officer, Ministry of Education Science and Technology (MEST), Brima Michael Turay, has informed media practitioners that less than five days to the National Primary School Examination (NPSE), Kono District alone sent eight

For the past few months, the Sierra Leone Motor Drivers and General Transport Workers Union has been on a massive road campaign geared towards the drastic reduction of road fatalities by sensitizing the membership on

War widows in Sierra Leone have written a pathetic letter to the President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, begging him to intervene to ensure that they get their payments recommended for them by the

Sierra Leone’s President has arrived in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the kind invitation of the Saudi Monarch. His Excellency, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma was invited by The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King

Most countries that are booming in the tourist industry in Africa do not have as many beautiful beautiful beaches as Sierra Leone possesses! I have seen the beaches in Banjul, Dakar, Mombasa, Abidjan, Cotonou, Bissau, Brazzaville

The Paramount Chief of Bagbo Chiefdom in the Bo District, Raymond Coker, has debunked as fake and baseless Green Scenery’s wide ranging accusations linking Socfin Agricultural Company to land encroachment in the chiefdom. According to the

The Legal Aid Board and the National Commission for Persons with Disability are collaborating on rights issues pertaining to disabled persons. The target group includes the Blind, Wheelchair Users, Deaf, Amputees, War Wounded and Albinos.

Former Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) Aspirant, Bamba Jalloh, who lost Hon. Alhansan Kamara of former constituency 96 in Calaba Town in 2012, is reported to have vied again under the banner of the SLPP. This

Youths at Maknadeh village, Koya Chiefdom, Foredugu Section in Port Loko District, are reported to have staged strike action against Samba Chinese Stone Mining Company for failing to fulfill workers condition of services. The peaceful strike

Sierra Leone Postal Service (Salpost) workers past Wednesday demonstrated peacefully, displaying placards and demanding that the Managing Director, Samuel Koroma, account for the lumpy sum of seven billion Leones, which the protesting workers alleged, he