A basic principle of democracy is that parties have to accept that their opponents are sometimes going to win. Fight the election hard, maybe even bitterly, but at the end [Read more]
President Julius Maada Bio and his Vice President Dr Juldeh Jalloh have recently concluded a major segment of their national Thank You Tour in Kono District which many and especially [Read more]
There has been a spate of reported attacks on journalists recently, with the latest taking place against AYV reporters in Makeni. This took place when the CID officers visited the [Read more]
Youth in Action for Development (YAD), a voluntary youth serving agency based in the eastern administrative capital of Kenema, has on Saturday, 12th January, 2019 inaugurated its newly constructed headquarters [Read more]
It was in 1996; the country was returning to a fragile state of stability, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and the Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC) had been kicked out [Read more]
If Gibrill Bangura ever wanted popularity by means of his inalienable right to freedom of speech, he has done the opposite by ranking up his notoriety in the Sierra Leone [Read more]
In a process of transformation, there is always a latent need for the phoenix of humanity to rise from the ashes. Barry Goldwater once said that “Social and cultural change, [Read more]
The long awaited Commission of Enquiry in Sierra Leone has been slated to commence in the New Year. There is no doubt that among other policy changes and statements, this [Read more]
From Jaiama Sewafe in Kono District to Freetown in the Western Area, the Presidential elections have long seemed like a battle of contests in optimism; the candidate with the most [Read more]
Kono district has always been the proverbial man that sits by the river and washes his hands with spittle. It is no secret that the mere mention of Kono district [Read more]
Major global leaders have adopted over the years, diverse policies that ensure empowerment of young people all over the world. The commonwealth for example, has series of funding windows through [Read more]
Sierra Leoneans can no longer afford to airbrush the spate of violence from our national consciousness. It is more than 6 months into President Maada Bio’s reign, but the afterbirth [Read more]
With the elections long gone and a democratically elected government in place, one would only envisage a quiet political environment with the defeated political party and their supporters putting aside [Read more]
This past week has been historic for the country and her people of Sierra Leone; being the first entrance into the United States by president Maada Bio after his election. [Read more]
When a “few good men” sat around a big round oak table in Berlin, to carve out Africa and its destiny in 1884-1885, many historians would have thought that this [Read more]
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