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July 2011

Manoj Kohli, CEO Africa for Bharti Airtel during his first visit to Sierra Leone last July, made a declaration to invest $20 million to expand the network in Sierra Leone. Today we see that promise

Our detractors and our friends have restarted their analyses of why we lost the 2007 elections. Most have suggested that it was because of the divisions that occurred within the party, leading to the exit

Fourteen Chief Judges of different West African Countries including Sierra Leone’s Lord Chief Justice Umu Hawa Tejan Jalloh have embarked on a two days assessment of ten years existence of ECOWAS Community  Court of Justice,

The first Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Ministerial Conference on Humanitarian Assistance and Internal Displacement has started at the Commission Headquarters in Asokoro, Abuja, Nigeria.  (Photo: R- Deputy Justice minister Hon. Arrow Bockarie

The recently launched ‘Talent: ID 2011’ programme of events being run by the Craig Bellamy Foundation are proving to be a big hit across Sierra Leone.  Already over 2,000 players have participated in the programme which

I wish to respond to a press release from the Embassy of Sierra Leone in Brussels carried on some local newspapers in which Ambassador Kargbo alleged that I attempted to stir up Anti-Government riots in

Owners of a Spanish Fishing Vessel, F/V Galerna, registered under the Mbambali Fishing Company in Sierra Leone and a fishing vessel, F/V Layal, operated by the Sierra Fishing Company, recently arrested by a combined team

High Court’s acquittal of Allieu Sesay and five others apparently educates the easy to fool society (journalists’ all-encompassing) that not all investigated and prosecuted by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) are blameworthy of corruption allegation. In

The Institute of Business Studies & Administration (IBSA) in collaboration with Initiative Capacity Building Association (ICBA) has awarded two scholarships to outstanding students of the Department of Accounting and Finance. Mabel Mena and Emma Paris (beauty

The Tonkolili District Council has got a new Central Chiefdom Financial Clerk (CCFC) following the retirement of Mr. Daniel M. Tholley who has been sent on a sixty days leave to retirement. Mr. Samuel Yamba Koroma

Reinstate Allieu Sesay now! When the Searching Man heard that the Court had found the suspended Commissioner General of the National Revenue Authority (NRA), Mr. Allieu Sesay and three others not guilty of all the charges

World football governing body, the Federation of International Football (FIFA), has congratulated the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) for the recent progress made by the tiny West African country’s national team. Leone Stars, are now 95th

Jude Uchama Omeigbo a Nigerian businessman yesterday appeared before Magistrate Johannes Wellington of Court 2 for unlawful possession of cocaine contrary to section 8(a) of the National Drugs Control Act No. 10 of 2008. In the

William Shakespeare’s wise quotation that “the evil that men do lives after them” has changed in modern times. It might have changed in the days of Shakespeare but not as prevalent as in today’s contemporary

Two mate’s children argued on top of the corpse of their late father at Jenneh Village Bo District. The senior dispenser of the Hamdala Pharmacy Bo branch who passed away on the 22nd June this year