Articles by Othman Sheriff

A RELIEVED burglar must be as pleased as punch to get out unharmed after sneaking into Mike Tyson’s hotel suite while the boxing legend was asleep. The former undisputed world [Read more]

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]

SIERRA LEONE GOVERNMENT OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF STATE HOUSE Government wishes to inform the general public that it is fully committed to implementing the Extractive Industries Trasnparency Initiative [Read more]

GOVERNMENT OF SIERRA LEONE   THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT HAS DECLARED THE WEEK BEGINNING 16TH JANUARY 2012 AS A WEEK OF PRAYER FOR [Read more]

By Abdulai Mansaray, UK When the Arab League decided to send a team of inspectors on a monitoring mission to Syria, there was a sigh of relief that the uprising [Read more]

Fellow Sierra Leoneans, New Year’s Day is usually a time for reflection and resolutions. In 2007 you gave me the mandate to push your resolutions through for a better Sierra [Read more]

By Abdulai Mansaray   Abdulai Mansaray, Author The last boot of US combat troops had barely left the Iraqi soil than the country celebrated the withdrawal with a spate of [Read more]

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]

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]

By Alexander Bratersky Late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (l) with President Dmitry Medvedev during a summit in Siberia in August this year. The sudden death of maverick North [Read more]

By Kay-Alexander Scholz German President Christian Wulff has broken his silence over an undisclosed home loan from a friend. The president apologized for not being more open, but said he [Read more]

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]

By Abdulai Mansaray, UK The English Football Association charged Luis Suarez of Liverpool Football club with misconduct and in the bargain, banned him for 8 games and fined £40.000 for [Read more]