Fanta Sesay claimed fraudulently claimed £180,500 in benefits while earning more than £240,000 from her employment She was not entitled to the benefits or allowed to work Sesay was sentenced [Read more]
Former British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, Peter Penfold, has launched a book detailing his account of the Sierra Leone civil war titled: ‘Atrocities, Diamonds and Diplomacy: The Inside Story [Read more]
I have been approached almost daily to express my views on the Government, the Opposition or the issue of the moment in Sierra Leone. Generally, I have resisted. As well [Read more]
The eighteen city tour which began Friday at the Jomeokee Festival in Pinnacle, North Carolina includes performance dates in Aspen, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia to name a few, will [Read more]
Dear Sam: I am attaching the first letter we sent to President Koroma on 8/29/2010 begging him to personally bring our case to you because of your refusal to respond [Read more]
Information gathered by the Critique Echo reporters in Freetown has confirmed that the Christiana Thorpe’s jaw-broken nomination fees for the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in the country which almost [Read more]
Secretary General of Saudi Arabia's based Inter-Governmental Organisation, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has called on its 57 Member States and the International Community at large to urgently extend [Read more]
The Security Council, welcoming the preparations in Sierra Leone for the presidential, parliamentary and local elections on 17 November, and underlining their importance as a “key benchmark” for peace consolidation in [Read more]
For years now, Sierra Leone has been like a boxer coming round after a sniff of smelling salt, with half-remembered taste, smell and sound of the day before yesterday. [Read more]
Bad weather yesterday affected the M.V Mahera Ferry which ply the sea route between Lungi and Freetown leaving the ramp damaged. According to the Ferry Captain Sheik Gibril Sesay the [Read more]
As far as Africa is concerned, prizes don't come any bigger and challenging than this – the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) Literary prize for writers of Nigerian descent based [Read more]
A non-governmental, apolitical and non-frofitable organization operating in Kenema District, Eastern Sierra Leone is inviting applications from suitably qualified Sierra Leoneans to fill in the following vacant positions: -Project supervisor [Read more]
The Acting Director of Amnesty International in Sierra Leone, Mr. Solomon Sogbandi, says the group is working to make sure the Government of Sierra Leone abolishes the death penalty in [Read more]
The main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has on Sunday 2nd September 2012 voted for the candidates that would be awarded the party symbol to contest for the mayoral [Read more]
“We have transferred billions of Leones to the Kenema city and district council to develop Kenema,” president Koroma said during the opening of the much publicised new Kenema shopping centre [Read more]
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