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November 2021

Charles Margai breaks silence! For more than three years of keeping silent after he was dismissed from office as Attorney General and Minister of Justice on 12th June 2018 barely two months after his appointment, Charles

Certain provisions in the 1991 constitution of our country guarantee the tenure of office of certain important offices in the land. This means that holders of such offices cannot just be removed at the whim

We gathered pieces of our past left on the fringes To pillar the memory of a nation afflicted by amnesia To stop the slide to a future traumatized like our past So, we mined the iron ore from

The industrious and highly ethical financial civil servant, Lara Taylor-Pierce has been told to “go and wait while we investigate you", by the Government of Sierra Leone for unexplained reasons. The news dropped like a bomb

21 year old student and green energy pioneer from Sierra Leone, Jeremiah Thoronka, has become the first-ever winner of the $100,000 Chegg.org Global Student Prize 2021. He won the prize for inventing a device that uses kinetic

Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sunday 7 November 2021 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has ended his visits to survivors of the tragic fuel tanker explosion who are now responding to treatment at the

Freetown, 6th November - Voluntary Service Overseas are providing emergency disaster response to the explosion in Freetown, Sierra Leone which killed scores of people when a fuel tanker collided with a lorry on Friday evening. VSO

The Freetown Secondary School for Girls has on Saturday 30th October,2021, won the Brain of Serra Lyoa School Tournament. The Grand Finale which was held at the Albert Academy School Hall, Berry Street, Freetown, featured the

The Health Education Program Manager of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation has confirmed new cases of measles in Kambia district in the north-west region. Herold Thomas said three out of the first seven samples collected

The justice system has been a thorn in the flesh of good governance and sustainable peace in our country. The absence of efficient dispensation of justice due to undue political interference over the years is

At long last Government sponsored students of the LIMKOKWING University of Creative Technology from Malaysia seem to breathe a sigh of relief after almost three years in academic wilderness. The University management has called on the

Inside sources have intimated that behind-the-scenes moves are being made by stalwarts of the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples (SLPP) Labour Minister, Alpha Timbo, to contest for the position of party scribe. It is believed that Timbo

Beneath the apparent peaceful atmosphere prevailing at the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, there is a heavy current of unease and anxiety among staff, said to have been triggered by the strained relationship between the

President Bio recently attended EXPO Dubai 2020, during which he urged all Sierra Leoneans living in Dubai to continue to be patriotic. The government saw the EXPO Dubai 2020 as an opportunity to showcase the

Former Minister of Information and Communications, Mohamed Bangura, Dr. Richard Conteh, Sanah Marah, Mohamed Sheriff, Abdulrahman Musa Fofanah, Sahr Wondeh and Samuel O.J. Coker on Tuesday 19th October 2021 made their first appearance before the