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The Peculiar Mess of the Watchdog.

10/01/2012 Othman Sheriff

RANDOM MUSING,  by Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon   The line in the sand has been drawn clearly and irrevocably. Right now a battle is taking shape in our dear country; a [Read more]

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Rhapsody About the Future.

03/01/2012 Othman Sheriff

RANDOM MUSING, by Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon   Future historians will look back at the 2007-2012 slot in our history as one of the golden opportunities that was allowed by our [Read more]

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2012 – Let the Revolution Begin.

28/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

RANDOM MUSING, by Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon awogordon@yahoo.co.uk Before some faces turn angrier than a cobbler’s thumb at the statement above, let me first wish all of you a happy new [Read more]

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Why a Run-off is Unlikely in 2012…an Analysis of the Sierra Leone Elections

23/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

By Umaru Fofana, SLAJ, BBC, Freetown 2012 is here. The elections are near. Politicians have started greeting people by their name. Absentee and no-do-gooder parliamentarians, council chairmen and councillors have [Read more]

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Why African Politician Cannot Be Juju Dabbler

23/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, CEN Commentator, USA Sierra Leone is a perfect example of how the African politician should do away with the absurd juju-marabou spiritualism – if Africa is to [Read more]

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The Long Winding Road To Nowhere.

19/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

RANDOM MUSING, by Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon, awogordon@yahoo.co.uk Let’s end the game of wits.     We all know that politicians when whipped into mob frenzy can take banality to frightening [Read more]

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The Burden of Corruption is Not on Washington’s Carriageway

14/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

RANDOM MUSING, by Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon, awogordon@yahoo.co.uk Blood is not simply red – it stains. Covenants without swords are but mere words. When the hunter is afraid of his gun, [Read more]

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Who’s Ungrateful to Whom?

12/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

By John Momoh If one considers the role played by Ex-brigadier Julius Maada Bio in bringing Ex-President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah’s Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) Regime to power in 1996, [Read more]

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“Collateral Damage”

11/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

By Sorie Fofana The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report of 2004 discovered that “endemic corruption was a central factor that produced the dire conditions that made civil war inevitable. Sierra [Read more]

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An Open Letter to the Vice President

08/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

RANDOM MUSING, By Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon awogordon@yahoo.co.uk   Sir,   The Vice President, Alhaji Sam Sumana Permit my impudence but there is an irony in the fact that the administration [Read more]

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A Tree Never Hits an Automobile Except in Self Defence.

08/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

By Abdulai Mansaray   Abdulai Mansaray, Author The last time I checked, the national police force of the Republic of Sierra Leone was charged with the responsibility for law enforcement [Read more]

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HOW SERIOUS IS SORIOUS?

07/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

Commented By Franklin Kekura Fode-Kallay, USA. Sorious Samura Sir, Please grant me space in your widely read magazine to express my views on this hot issue. Thanks. HOW SERIOUS IS [Read more]

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The Youths of Today Have a Lot to Say.

06/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

By Abdulai Mansaray. With the recently concluded report on the “Bo Political Mishap “published, the spate of violence that is rearing its ugly head in local communities does not augur [Read more]

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The Puppeteer’s string: Is the I.M.C. having a laugh?

05/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

RANDOM MUSING, By Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon,  awogordon@yahoo.co.uk     “The IMC notes that since the broadcast of that programme, it has generated heated discussions on (sic) the media. The IMC [Read more]

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Timbergate: a ‘Looter’ Continua

29/11/2011 Othman Sheriff

Random musing, by Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon In the midst of the verifiable achievements and the pillaging and abuse of the past years, there is a compelling need, like Sorious Samura [Read more]

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Journalism Is Dead! Funeral Arrangements Will Be Announced Later.

03/06/2026

In May 1789, Louis XVI summoned to Versailles a full meeting of the “Estates General”. The First Estate consisted of three hundred Nobles. The Second Estate, three hundred Clergy. The [Read more]

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Our Peace & Freedom Cost Too Much Blood and Agony to Relinquish Them to Cheap Rhetoric.

03/06/2026

Sierra Leone’s 2028 general election might sound like light years away, just like how a day or week in politics could be a long time. The cyclical life span of [Read more]

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The 55% Constitutional Threshold And The Fragility Of National Trust

03/06/2026

The 55% threshold in Sierra Leone’s 1991 Constitution was no arithmetic accident. It was a deliberate act of political design—an attempt by the framers to confront, rather than merely ignore, [Read more]

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The Trump`s Deportation Deal with the Government of Sierra Leone: A Critique Opinion

03/06/2026

I stopped publishing articles in my widely read Critique Column for some time due to the enormous responsibilities I carry at the moment as the head of an institution that [Read more]

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