On International Youth Day 2016, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) launched the Call for Applications for the Young Peacebuilders in West Africa programme. The Call is open to [Read more]
Sierra Leone has the one of the highest rates of FGM in the world, with nine in 10 women and adolescent girls cut, says U.N. The death of a teenage [Read more]
Sierra Leone’s Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs – Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, previously known for her investigative journalism at the Awareness Times newspaper in Freetown, is now [Read more]
Dear Hon Minister, For the past days and weeks, you would have been aware that incidents of political violence and the blatant misuse of state security apparatus have rocked the [Read more]
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) press release read by the Country Representative Madam Iyabo Masha yesterday at the IMF country office in Freetown stated that budget implementation will be even [Read more]
Panic gripped hundreds of passengers that were onboard MV Mahera yesterday when the engine of the old ferry suddenly developed some mechanical fault and grounded to a halt a few [Read more]
Magistrate Binneh Kamara named Marcus Kanu and Abdul Mohamed Kamara, a third year student at the Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM), an academic fraudster on the on-going alleged [Read more]
I read with dismay a report in the Awoko Newspaper of 23 June 2016 captioned “Police stops EPA from closing ALA, Carmanor.” According to the report, two agriculture companies, African [Read more]
A hardworking and proud former student of Bo School; Mr. Alex Jonjo Allie also known as ‘Alexandra The Great’ who was an eye of admiration for many Sierra Leoneans is [Read more]
When your clothes are made of cassava leaves, you don’t take a goat as a friend. We all seem to think for ourselves and our assumed enclaves only, rather than [Read more]
President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has reiterated government’s commitment towards the construction of the Mamamah International Airport during a meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Commerce of the Peoples [Read more]
“The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness”-Marcus Garvey Two years ago, I wrote about the bleaching epidemic in Nigeria and [Read more]
The Local Unit Commander (LUC) of the Adonkia Police Station, Goderich, West End of Freetown-Superintendent Ambrose Michael Sovula has disclosed to this medium that he will always continue to discharge [Read more]
The issue of maltreatment of Sierra Leonean House maids in the State of Kuwait is a subject that has been circulating over the social media for some time now and [Read more]
In 2003, Octéa, formerly Koidu Holdings S.A, won the right to explore what is the present day Tonguma Limited concession in the Lower Bambara Chiefdom in the Kenema District. After [Read more]
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