Year: 2013

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]

In April 2011, I was in the United States on a brief visit.  During the visit, I spent one week in the Washington Metropolitan Area – shuttling between Virginia, Maryland [Read more]

MILE 91, Tonkolili District, June 20th, 2013/- The Chairman and Leader of the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC), Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has said in Mile 91 that anything [Read more]