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A Resounding Success: The 2010 SLPP North America Convention in Los Angeles

Having witnessed a very successful convention where a two month-long democratic process ushered in new leadership; where 21 of the 23 chapters present fully participated in affirming all electoral and other SLPP business discussed in

The occasion of our beloved country’s 50th Independence Anniversary gives all Sierra Leoneans and friends of Sierra Leone an ideal opportunity to come together as one. The Sierra Leone High Commission in London has been tasked

More than 700 people are now known to have died in a massive landslide in north-west China - making it one of the deadliest incidents so far in the country's worst flooding in a decade. A

Emmanuel Adebayor could play for Togo again if the country's football bosses meet certain conditions. The Manchester City striker quit the national side after a terrorist attack on their bus travelling to the African Nations Cup

The world’s most prestigious debating society Oxford Union has invited Sierra Leone’s President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma to give a talk to students in October this year. (Photo: HE President Ernest Bai Koroma) The group says

In an earlier article, I gave a brief account about the Embassy of Sierra Leone in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since its establishment in the late 1970's. My focus in that article was generally

Abuja—President Goodluck Jonathan (in photo), weekend, told the military what they needed to do to qualify as the ‘Nigerian armed forces of my (his) dream’ saying ‘your role in sustaining democracy in the last 10

Media organizations in Sierra Leone exhibited a typical display of negligence and betrayal to the cause for which they were supposedly established, in the matter between a female journalist called Khadijatu Savage and the outgone

“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will neither have good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes

His Excellency the President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma Monday visited the land slide disaster site at Owen Street in Freetown, where two houses collapsed due to heavy down pour of rains. Thirteen people were reported dead

If anyone thinks that the ruling APC would change its ways or listen to constructive criticism, it will be an illusion. They have a set agenda the pursuit of which leaves no room for consultations,

The Independent Media Commission called an Emergency Board Meeting today, Friday 6th August 2010 at which Editors of the Torchlight Newspaper and the Unity Newspaper were summoned to discuss (a) the publication of the Torchlight

(Aug. 9) -- Mia Farrow contradicted Naomi Campbell's testimony at the war crimes trial of former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor today, saying the model had told her how she had received a "huge diamond" from

Manoj Kohli, Bharti Airtel Chief Executive and other senior Executives of Bharti Airtel on Thursday, 29th July 2010 jet into Freetown for the second time in about four weeks interval of their first visit. This

The Installation of 98.1 clandestine radio station on Monday 7th July 1997 as a propaganda outlet of the dethroned SLPP didn’t only boost the morale of the pro-government militias (Kamajors) and the Nigerian pre-dominant ECOMONG