The recent Transparency International (TI) public opinion survey, which found corruption has worsened worldwide over the last two years is causing a stir in Sierra Leone. Evidence of its annual [Read more]
The board and management of Youth in Action for Development (YAD) are delighted to inform the general public that the organization has won the United Nations Alliance of Civilization (UNAOC) [Read more]
THE HAGUE, Netherland, July 16, 2013/ — Statement from the ICC President: International Criminal Justice Day: Fifteen years ago, on 17 July 1998, history was made. Gathered in Rome, [Read more]
Ruby Johnson is not your typical beauty pageant Queen. Just over a month after her homecoming trip to Sierra Leone to mark the country's 52nd Independence Anniversary, Miss Sierra [Read more]
Like a fart in the meeting room, it is impolite to mention it. So let’s whisper it, one more time. At the top of our society, there is kleptomania as [Read more]
Habib Munda, the (dis)honorable (mis)representative of Constituency 017, you might think the Pathfinder brouhaha between you and YAD has been laid to a rest hence you have never been summoned [Read more]
As the drama unfolds…. By Journalist Amadu Lamrana Bah (filed on Friday July 5th 2013) The Minister of Information and Communications Alhaji Alpha Khanu has in an interview with Journalists [Read more]
Let’s be blunt about it. The manner of our search for foreign succour is like a randy 70 year-old roaming all over town and inviting a nymphomaniac to be [Read more]
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, a veteran feminist activist and politician was appointed Wednesday by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as the new executive director of UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of [Read more]
As the debate over whether to repeal or invoke Sierra Leone’s Public Order Act of 1965 intensifies, two journalists Kashope Holland-Cole, managing editor and Ibrahim Samura, editor of the Prime [Read more]
President Koroma’sVisit to China Strengthens Bilateral Relations and Yields Billions in Investments and Grants The visit by His Excellency the President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma (June 24 -July 1 2013) [Read more]
Egypt’s army took power from President Mohamed Morsi and suspended the constitution. Army tanks are surrounding the presidential palace, and Morsi’s whereabouts are unknown. The head of the constitutional court [Read more]
GOVERNMENT OF SIERRA LEONE Office of the President To: Editors, Managing Editors and Station Managers From: The Director of Communications State House Subject: MEDIA BRIEFING BY H.E. [Read more]
I am positive that the government and the Anti Corruption Commission, with an eye to audience-applause, would expect us to give a standing ovation to the theatrics of its fight [Read more]
One of my earliest memories as a child was looking forward to Fridays. No, It was not about Friday prayers but about the number of times I was invited to [Read more]
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