COMMUNIQUE ON PEACE AND RECONCILIATION MEETING HELD BETWEEN RTD. BRIGADIER JULIUS MAADA BIO AND MR. JOHN OPONJO BENJAMIN London, 16th December 2014. After the 2012 Presidential and Parliamentary elections [Read more]
Dozens of die-hard African literature aficionados and book lovers thronged into Sheppard Hall at City College New York (CCNY) in Harlem Thursday for Zimbabwean author, No Violet Bulawayo’s lecture at [Read more]
ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT DR ERNEST BAI KOROMA RESTRICTION ON MOVEMENT BETWEEN DISTRICTS DURING CHRISTMAS PERIOD Fellow Sierra Leoneans, since our country registered it first case of Ebola [Read more]
Benjamin Franklins’ famous “Two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner” aptly describes the realities of our convulsing, blood-soaked Sierra Leone today. Between Ebola and [Read more]
It’s that time of the year; the season of good will, and on earth peace to all men. We are literally half way into the Premier League season and things [Read more]
JEDDAH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, December 11, 2014/ — The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdallah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud has extended a grant of US$35 million [Read more]
I have always told few of my foreign friends that whatever they read about Sierra Leone and Sierra Leoneans, Sierra Leone is a very hospitable country and the majority of [Read more]
MR. SPEAKER, MR. VICE PRESIDENT, MY LADY THE CHIEF JUSTICE, MINISTERS OF GOVERNMENT, HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, EXCELLENCIES, MEMBERS OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS, HIS WORSHIP THE MAYOR OF FREETOWN, DISTINGUISHED [Read more]
Over the past weeks I have been involved in several policy debates, where the good news about sub-Saharan Africa’s very promising economic prospects has been touted by me and others [Read more]
Ebola has proved to be the most dreadful virus on our planet and it has swept countless number of good people across the Manor River Union. So far, all researches [Read more]
I landed in Berlin barely a week ago after I spent complete two months in Sierra Leone, the land that has been branded with and stigmatized by Ebola. So far, [Read more]
The second season of Al Jazeera’s award-winning Africa Investigates kicked off on Wednesday, 12 November 2014, asking whether the Liberian government is making the Ebola crisis worse. “This groundbreaking series gives [Read more]
The first human trial of an experimental Ebola vaccine has produced promising results, U.S. scientists said, raising hopes that protection from the deadly disease may be on the horizon. All [Read more]
Whether David Tam Baryoh was blackmailed into signing a confession which then guaranteed his presidential pardon or temporary release is neither here nor there as far as I am concerned. [Read more]
Since you can never underestimate the evil in politics until you are a victim, we need to be aware that we also don’t have to be the corpse to go [Read more]
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