Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance – Jacob Jusu Saffa is today fighting to keep his job, as pressure mounts on president Julius Maada Bio to transfer him to another ministerial [Read more]
It is an open secret that the relationship between our 2 major political parties, the SLPP and APC is one of attrition. There is no doubt that these parties would [Read more]
The recent spate of violence on the streets has become a recurrent eyesore to all well meaning Sierra Leoneans. It goes without saying that violence and Sierra Leone are not [Read more]
He made the name, Sierra Leone Police (SLP) force fashionable by simply ascribing to it the buzz-phrase, ‘a force for good’ and it helped to rebuild moral. Before then, some [Read more]
The river died a while back- a victim of the quest for gold. Its muddy waters bereft of any life. For Mamanke and other villages, Pampana River was everything – [Read more]
Social media has been inundated with comments from readers since news broke out that President Bio has paid out millions of dollars to the former President, Dr Ernest Bai Koroma [Read more]
There is no doubt that the world we live in today is full of complexities. But more to this, is the irrefutable fact that the world is increasingly becoming divided [Read more]
As I sat in my brother’s apartment in Philadelphia, grudgingly watching the launching of the Ahmad Tejan Foundation for Peace and Democracy, I could not help but recognize the dept [Read more]
The Republic of Sierra Leone recently celebrated its 58th year of independence, but many have been left wondering whether it was worth all the fuss in the first place. And [Read more]
There is a usual angst when it comes to writing about public figures, especially when these figures are politicians who are caught in the eye of the storm. But it [Read more]
The most touted first year review of the current SLPP Government has indeed provoked an intense debate that is good and nourishing to our emergent democracy, which discourse had led [Read more]
Are Sierra Leoneans really confused about investigations, commissions and audit? While the country seems to be breathing a new wave of fresh air and suffocation on the one hand; many [Read more]
There was a seeming air of optimism among many Sierra Leoneans when President Maada Bio and the leaders of the 17 opposition Parties met at State House on 1st March [Read more]
The recent political manoeuvre by President Julius Maada Bio has been hailed and lambasted in varying degrees from different political circles, using different optical prisms for obvious reasons. President Bio [Read more]
The Declaration of a State of Emergency by H.E. Rtd. Brig. Julius Maada Bio in an attempt to seemingly address the increasing spate of the incidence of rape, has raised [Read more]
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