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About Othman Sheriff
Born and raised in Kenema district, eastern Sierra Leone, Othman Sheriff began practicing journalism during his school days as a youthhood hobby. With a bachelor degree in mass-media and communication, and Master’s degree in development and peacebuilding, Sheriff is the Editor in Chief and CEO of Critique Echo Newspaper. While tirelessly using journalism as a tool to place his country’s socioeconomic and political landscape under a magnifying glass, Sheriff is deeply involved in community development projects. Over the years, Sheriff has formulated and implemented billions of Leones worth of development projects with funds from Europe and USA. He is chiefly focused on community infrastructural development and economic resuscitation projects, fostering interethnic, interreligious and sociocultural cohesion among the young population in Kenema district. He is a member of many international peacebuilding initiatives including the United Religious Initiative (URI), International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP), Intercultural Leaders Network and Youth Solidary Fund program of the United Nations Alliance of Civilization (UNAOC)
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Positive Transcendence is the Best Outcome of Every Conflict: Bravo to SLPP and APC

21/10/2023 Othman Sheriff

The outcome of the June 24 multitier elections left the Sierra Leonean electorates in limbo as the main political rivals, the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) and the opposition [Read more]

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Bees for Education: a Role Model to Copy

11/07/2022 Othman Sheriff

Bee produces honey which is consumed by many as food or beverage. By the late eighteenth century, bee had become commonly associated with the British dialect form, been or bean, [Read more]

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How to Make Pavi Fort Different From Its Predecessors In Kenema?

18/07/2021 Othman Sheriff

There are many hot spots of social and political marginalization in post-conflict Sierra Leone, but the most notorious one had been Kenema city over the years, as successive governments constantly [Read more]

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Let’s Vote Wisely, With Less Expectations

05/03/2018 Othman Sheriff

In a blind village, the man with one eye is, by default, the inaugurated chief. So no matter what happens, our next president is now awaiting. It’s a democratic principle [Read more]

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KKY’s Alliance With the National Grand Caoalition Movement: Pros and Cons

02/10/2017 Othman Sheriff

Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella, alias KKY, formally resigned from the Sierra Leone People’s Party few weeks ago after years of intraparty gymnastic full of oral and physical abuses. KKY’s resignation [Read more]

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Armed Robbery is a Terrible Crime And So Is Mob Justice

12/05/2017 Othman Sheriff

Armed robbery has become another terrifying development in Sierra Leone over the years.  Still staggering to extract itself from the ash and debris of decade long civil war, the country [Read more]

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President Koroma Announces Election Date, But There Are More Challenges Ahead

16/02/2017 Othman Sheriff

President Koroma has finally announced a date for presidential and legislative elections. But many people, including constitutional lawyers, are frowning at it on the grounds that he was sworn in [Read more]

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Is President Koroma Responsible for the Prevailing Disunity in SLPP?

16/01/2017 Othman Sheriff

While glancing through my timeline this morning, my eyes ran into a very attention-grabbing piece written by someone I hold in high esteem, Dr. Julius Spencer. The piece was commented [Read more]

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They Say “Youth are the Future Leaders”, When, Where and What is the Future?

21/08/2016 Othman Sheriff

Postcolonial Sierra Leone has experienced endless unenviable history ranging from dictatorship rule,  brutal civil war, military putsches to a staggering democratic system that is riddled by graft, tribal, regional and [Read more]

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KENEMA MAYOR IN CORRUPTION SCANDAL, MY REJOINDER.

29/07/2016 Othman Sheriff

When the wrong head plunges into the right hallucinations every story becomes reality. Ironically, stories can only sound real to “intelligent” readers when they entail some degrees of truth.  The [Read more]

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Ambassador Kamara Clarifies the Smear Campaign over the Kuwaiti House Maids Issue: My Rejoinder

23/05/2016 Othman Sheriff

I’m a Muslim to the bone and can read Quran without a hiccup but I find it disgusting and unimaginable, the way and manner poor African women are being treated [Read more]

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I Like Europe, But I Love Sierra Leone

10/04/2016 Othman Sheriff

I arrived back in Berlin 2 hours ago after a very short but happy trip to the historic city of Rome, Italy.  Italy is the only major country within the [Read more]

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SLPP Germany Chapter Sets to Elect a New Executive, But Many Questions Remain Unanswered (Part 3)

05/11/2015 Othman Sheriff

Following our previous publications in which we posed several questions to the leadership aspirants of SLPP Germany Chapter, the current executive led by cardiologist Dr. Musa Ben Sannoh has so [Read more]

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SLPP Germany Chapter Sets to Elect a New Executive, But Many Questions Remain Unanswered

16/10/2015 Othman Sheriff

The Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) is active and productive in many countries across the western world except in Germany. Even when the party was in power for more than [Read more]

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Is the SLPP Flagbearer Contest Degenerating Into a South-East Versus Northwest Match?

12/09/2015 Othman Sheriff

As I already stated in my yesterday’s rejoinder to the tribally motivated “verification committee” led by no other a person but Edward Soloku who is a well-known pro-Paopa top gun [Read more]

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The Oppressor Never Gives Freedom Voluntarily, The Oppressed Must Demand It.

30/06/2025

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which”. These [Read more]

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Farewell to a Trailblazer – Dr Kadi Sesay (1949–2025)

16/06/2025

Dr Kadi Sesay, feminist, scholar, politician, and pro-democracy advocate, passed away in the United States after a prolonged illness. She was 76. Family sources confirmed her death after a prolonged [Read more]

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In A War Of Egos, The Loser Always Wins

10/06/2025

The fallout from the “bromance” between Trump and Elon Musk was just a matter of time before the final blowout. Recent reports about the implosion between the most powerful man [Read more]

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With Organised Hypocrisy, People’s Indifferences & Impunity Are the Best Breeding Grounds for Corruption to Grow.

31/05/2025

An article titled “SLPP accused of planning to steal 2028 elections by creating new electoral districts in its stronghold and Freetown” (thesierraleonetelegraph.com (May 29-2025) seems to invoke post 2023 general [Read more]

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