If we are serious about redistributing power, those with hidden agendas and selfish anti-people interests have to be shunted aside and a level playing field for equity and social justice needs to be established [Read more]
Despite the declaration of the Gola Forest as a Trans-Border Peace Park to be reserved for touristic purpose by Liberia and Sierra Leone, some local authorities are believed to be working surreptitiously with mining companies in order to jeopardize the plan with mining activities. We publish here verbatim a letter written to President Koroma by Ibrahim Ekutu Sesay, a concerned citizen. [Read more]
Your Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma here is a question for you: When you would have served the years God has ordained for you as President of Mama Sa Lone, what will you be remembered for? [Read more]
Electoral violence is not simply a political problem. It is a national issue whose poison will spill over into our compounds as revolting chants of desperadoes increasingly raise the temperature of those sickened by naked use of power and by the sickening arrogance of nit wits. [Read more]
The police report about the alleged cocaine container that transited at the sea port in Freetown has left the general public with more questions than answers. It’s no act of patriotism to feed the general public with inconceivable theories forgetting to realize the fact some of them are more clever than you. [Read more]
There is no doubt that media is the most powerful entity on earth. Unfortunately, this noble and God given right has been reduced to a begging bowl. Some have used it to promote their personal interests and at the same time become celebrated political griots [Read more]
There are many ways to unite Sierra Leone without generating a siege mentality. Patriotism and political party affiliations are strange bed mates and we should not confuse the two. [Read more]
Corruption and impunity remain our nemesis and continue to torment us. Have we as a society and a people got the balls to at least get rid of their principalities and powers? [Read more]
If you want to maintain the credit and honour lavished upon you by the Critique, you shouldn’t follow the footstep of your predecessors, Critique Echo warned Dr. Kadie Sesay [Read more]
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]
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]
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 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]
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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