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July 2015

President Obama’s former top military intelligence official has launched a scathing attack on the White House’s counter-terrorism strategy, including the administration’s handling of the ISIL threat in Iraq and Syria and the US military’s drone

Have you ever seen a Paramount Chief who steals cows? If no, then come to Sierra Leone, he is right here in Kukuna. He is a voracious carnivore who can eat three giant cows in

When the former Tejan Kabba-led Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) government brought its own buses, many, if not all of them, were painted green, possibly, to mislead the citizenry into believing that they were bought

We have observed with dismay that many government buildings have gone without renovation for several years and have consequently become eyesores. One such building is the Magistrate Court no. 2 in the country’s second capital city.

Sierra Leone’s leading telecom operator, Airtel, has donated as Ramadan gift 100 bags of rice and 100 bags of sugar to various mosques in the Waterloo community in the Western Rural District. The donation ceremony took

Latest report reaching this medium indicates that the dethroned Headman of Worreh Makankry village in the Makarie Gbantie Chiefdom, Bombali District, Northern Sierra Leone, Osman Dawoh, has gone into self-exile, fleeing the wrath of the

This medium has been reliably informed that workers of the Milton Margai School for the Blind at Wilkinson Road in Freetown have gone for seven (7) months now without salary, a situation that has financially

The name Momoh Konte is not only a household name among Freetown residents, Elites, or Political party members, but it is a name that goes more beyond the capital right unto the least district in

“Eid- al- Fitr” marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan will be on Friday, July 17th 2015, according to an announcement on Saudi State Radio and Television. Quoting a Supreme Court statement, the

The United Methodist Church (UMC) is reported to be involved in an intense land dispute with indigenes of Masantigie, Masorie and Mathankay villages in constituency 102 in the Western Rural District of Waterloo. The said land

The Paramount Chief of Bramaia Chiefdom, Kambia district, PC Ali Kossay, on Friday July 10th 2015 organized disgruntled youths within the chiefdom to set ablaze the chiefdom headquarter, Kukuna, reports say. (Photo: PC Alie Kossay

The politically prudent bird is pleased to announce that he will be contesting the forthcoming 2018 or 2020 presidential party as a very independent candidate with the following manifesto: Fellow citizens, I am desperately in need

Magistrate Alfred Fidawi of court no.7 yesterday, July 13th , granted to an apparently lawless disable person, Zokoriah Sannoh, a bail of twenty-five in the sum of twenty five million Leones ( Le 25,000,000) and

I have reliably gathered that each of the new buses was purchased at the unimaginably high cost of 120.000 US Dollars which is equivalent to about 600 million Leones multiplied by 100 is beyond my

It is an incontrovertible fact that Sierra Leone is a notoriously poor country that has been occupying the bottom of the UN development index for sacral years apart from being ranked as the hungriest country