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February 2017

Idrissa was disappointed. His village was promised jobs if they leased their land to the palm oil company. “The company told us that every family that gave land to them would have a member employed”

Following the passing away of H.E. Ambassador Ibrahim Bakarr Kamara on Wednesday 8th February 2017, the Sierra Leone Mission in Kuwait  opened a Book of Condolence at the Chancery from Monday 13th to Wednesday 15th

Amb. Kumba Momoh   Sierra Leone’s deputy ambassador to the People’s Republic of China has said, the establishment of diplomatic and people-to-people ties between the two nations on 29th July, 1971 was based on “the core values

NON SIBI SED ALIIS Memoires and moments of my student days on the hill top University town of Mount Aureol in the early 1970s: a moment of recapitulation and reflection in a memory lane narrative.  (Photo:

‘The only answer to our problems is working harder’ Lucy C. F. Gondor has been unanimously re-elected President of the Kailahun Women in Governance Network (KWiGN) at the network’s Annual Reflections Meeting (ARM) on Valentine’s Day

The Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Brima Kargbo has officially launched the First National Health Promotion Strategy of Sierra Leone 2017-2021 on Thursday February 16, 2017 at the Bintumani Hotel, Aberdeen in Freetown. (Photo: Chief Medical

Yes, our "Comrade" has gone! And it's hard to accept it. But whether he had died some years ago or his death had occurred in Kuwait, we would still have grieved our brother,friend, dad and

Will The Ministers Respect Their President’s Agenda? Just as I finished watching the Champions League soccer match where the once mighty Barcelona football club was deservedly beaten by French outfit, Paris-Saint  Germaine, a very close friend

The 2017 World Development Report (WDR), a yearly World Bank flagship report, was launched in Freetown on Thursday, February 9. This year’s report, Governance and the Law, sheds light on how a better understanding of

The press, together with the Corporate Affairs Assistant of the Sierra Leone Brewery Limited (SLBL), Unisa Conteh, on Wednesday 15th February,2017 paid an inspection visit to the Queen Elizabeth II Quay to inspect the huge

The Director of the Legal Aid Board, Ms. Fatmata Claire Carlton-Hanciles has told the senior officers of the Sierra Leone Police that the correctional centers and cells around the country continue to be full despite

Everything seems to be going along just fine in your life, but you are getting an uneasy feeling that has you a bit confused. Eventually, you realize that your partner needs more space and breaks

Some migrate within Africa while others take the risky route to Europe Every week, in the Brong Ahafo Region — one of Ghana’s major food baskets — vehicles load up with men between 18 and 40

Young legal luminary Melron Nicol-Wilson, head of Malaika Chambers has demonstrated his support towards the pledge made by Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara to members of Sweizzy Jewellers in Freetown. It could be recalled that sometime last year,

“70,000 affected in Sierra Leone” - Deputy Health and Sanitation Minister I, Madina Rahman Deputy Health and Sanitation Minister, Madam Madina Rahman has said that Epilepsy is a serious neurological disorder that affects the brain and