It was 64 years last Sunday when Sierra Leone gained its independence from its colonial master, Great Britain. It marked the end of an era and the dawn of another. [Read more]
There is no better time for African Unity than now. On April 2, General Michael Langley, a United States (US) Marine Corps, who became the sixth Commander of United States [Read more]
Donald J Trump believes that he has the magic formula to bring back the glory days and “Make America Great Again” (MAGA). Since the Second World War, America was never [Read more]
Our nation, and especially Freetown have been gripped by a spate of fire incidents recently. The State House, the Military hospital (34) a and mother unit in Makeni hospital have [Read more]
Even before Donald Trump won the elections in November 2024, those familiar with the general feel of African democracy or democracy in Africa could see the parallel and linear similarities [Read more]
When Her Excellency Mrs Fatima Bio spearheaded and joined a strike action by workers from Koidu Limited Mining Company (KLMC), her detractors wasted no time in condemning her action, as [Read more]
On Friday, at 11:00 PM, 31 January 2020, Britain officially left the European Union (EU). It was a divorce that was not contested by either party and was settled on [Read more]
Sierra Leoneans woke up to the news that our nation has been grouped together with countries like Russia, Myanmar, South Sudan, Haiti etc. to face sharply restricted access to visa [Read more]
At the end of Africa’s most indelibly tortuous period in history, the colonial period that followed was meticulously tailored to politically, socially, morally, ethically and economically brainwash the continent and [Read more]
It’s early days into the sacred Islamic month of Ramadan and Mrs Bio has given the greatest gift already. Muslims all over the world are observing this sacred month, the [Read more]
The case of Hawa Hunt (H.H), a Calgary woman who was detained since December over past social media criticism of Sierra Leone’s President and First lady, (Calgary Herald, 23rd Feb, [Read more]
Sierra Leone has come under renewed scrutiny as a key transit hub for international drug trafficking. A damning report by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and [Read more]
Sierra Leone has a rich history, from slavery and the slave trade as one of the worst indelible marks on the conscience of mankind, to Sierra Leone emerging as a [Read more]
Captain Ibrahim Traore took power in Burkina Faso on 30th September 2022, citing former President Paul Henri-Damiba’s inability to deal with the country’s worsening armed uprising as the raison d’etre [Read more]
Rightly or wrongly, President Bio has had and continues to have his fair share of criticisms from the public, the media and his political opponents. Winston Churchill once said that [Read more]
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