As we usher in the New Year and hurriedly see the back of 2020, it will be remembered for anything but the Pandemic. Covid-19, as part of our daily lives [Read more]
There is a seeming temptation for people to assume that what is going on in American politics is a far-flung concern for Americans and Americans only. Wrong. As we painfully [Read more]
The great American country has always prided itself as the High Priest of democracy and even prescribed it as its major export commodity to the world. We all know how [Read more]
The First Lady, Mrs Fatima Bio has been in the news, and some will say for the wrong reasons. Others are inclined to roll their eyes and say, “here we [Read more]
The advent of social media at face value, should be a blessing and a rod of enlightenment. Before social media, the manufacturing, dissemination and consumption of information was totally controlled [Read more]
"To solve Sierra Leone’s democratic woes, it is not Maada Bio but Ernest Bai Koroma who must go. Sierra Leone’s problem is not just with Government. We have absence of [Read more]
It is estimated that about 170 million people make up the African diaspora. But the Africa is yet to unleash the full potential of this group on the continent. Despite [Read more]
The President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was seized and detained with his Prime Minister Boubou Cisse by the military yesterday. Initial reports indicate that what started as a mutiny [Read more]
“Government of Sierra Leone explores development of domestic air travel” (thesierraleonetelegraph.com-10/08/20). This was one headline in the Sierra Leone Telegraph that caught my eye this week. According to the newspaper, [Read more]
Priscilla Schwartz, a Sierra Leonean lawyer is the first woman to serve as Attorney General and Minister of Justice in Sierra Leone. Her appointment was greeted as a statement of intent by many; that Bio’s [Read more]
Since the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic, life has changed beyond recognition as we know it. But one thing that has not changed and will never change is the [Read more]
The Parliament of Sierra Leone on July 23, 2020 unanimously approved the Independent Media Commission (IMC) Act 2020 and repealed the 1965 Public Order Act (POA) that criminalized libel and sedition. It has been hailed as a historic [Read more]
The loss of lives in Makeni over the weekend is not only sad but equally avoidable. With the social and political atmosphere heavily saturated by the whiff of injustice the [Read more]
Since the former Defence, and Interior Minister was arrested and charged, among others with treason, the trial-by-social-media and in the court of public opinion has been in overdrive. The court [Read more]
George Floyd has been laid to rest and may he rest in peace. But his memories are sure to linger on forever, and not just be another hashtag #. He [Read more]
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