President Koroma’s “youth empowerment strategy” and “agenda for change” seemed to also include replacement of lazy professors with energetic youths. The recent demonstration is the removal of though highly qualified but less resourceful Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Prof. Ogunlade Davidson [Read more]
Mr. J.B. Dauda announced a rigorous reformation plan in the Sierra Leonean diplomatic service shortly after his appointment as Foreign Minister. He promised to recall home, without any exception, all diplomats who have served more than four years abroad. But it looks like some diplomats are more diplomatic than the others as State House seemed to interfere with the process. [Read more]
WASHINGTON: On the week marking the 10 year anniversary of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Minister of Health for [Read more]
Your Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma here is a question for you: When you would have served the years God has ordained for you as President of Mama Sa Lone, what will you be remembered for? [Read more]
The Arab revolutionists are constantly chanting DEMOCRASY in their fights against the autocratic regimes. But one would wonder whether they really want the Western DEMOCRACY, or something else… Abdulai Mansary presents a critical view about the situation with special emphasis on the ongoing hullabaloo in Syria [Read more]
Several police officers and the local commissioner are under investigation over the escape of Boko Haram leader Kabiru Sokoto . A 50 million naira ($307,000) reward was also offered by police Thursday for any information leading to Sokoto’s re-arrest. [Read more]
Pervasive calm has returned to the Fourah Bay community after electoral violence perpetrated by supporters of the country’s two main political parties, APC and SLPP, leaving some party stalwarts hospitalized. Dennis Kabatto reports on the latest… [Read more]
Electoral violence is not simply a political problem. It is a national issue whose poison will spill over into our compounds as revolting chants of desperadoes increasingly raise the temperature of those sickened by naked use of power and by the sickening arrogance of nit wits. [Read more]
National teams from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Senegal, are all determined to lift the cup for their supporters back home. They have called on governments and the international community to show equal determination to help protect millions currently threatened by a looming food crisis across the Sahel region
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For the first time in the history of AIDS, Africa has the best chance now to protect women, men and children everywhere from new HIV infections and to keep people living with HIV aliveR11;R11;this must now be the ultimate goal for Africa [Read more]
The police report about the alleged cocaine container that transited at the sea port in Freetown has left the general public with more questions than answers. It’s no act of patriotism to feed the general public with inconceivable theories forgetting to realize the fact some of them are more clever than you. [Read more]
Sierra Leoneans resident in diverse countries abroad want to be given the chance to vote for parties of their choice in the forthcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, but the National Electoral Commission (NEC) has made it crystal clear that no Diaspora voting will be possible [Read more]
There is no doubt that media is the most powerful entity on earth. Unfortunately, this noble and God given right has been reduced to a begging bowl. Some have used it to promote their personal interests and at the same time become celebrated political griots [Read more]
There are many ways to unite Sierra Leone without generating a siege mentality. Patriotism and political party affiliations are strange bed mates and we should not confuse the two. [Read more]
Reports from Freetown confirmed that violence and enemity have overcomed the Sierra Leonean musical industry as followers of two stars killed inocent people as a result of trivalities among themseves, Betty Milton reports from Freetown [Read more]
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