Articles by Othman Sheriff

About Othman Sheriff

Born and raised in Kenema district, eastern Sierra Leone, Othman Sheriff began practicing journalism during his school days as a youthhood hobby. With a bachelor degree in mass-media and communication, and Master’s degree in development and peacebuilding, Sheriff is the Editor in Chief and CEO of Critique Echo Newspaper. While tirelessly using journalism as a tool to place his country’s socioeconomic and political landscape under a magnifying glass, Sheriff is deeply involved in community development projects. Over the years, Sheriff has formulated and implemented billions of Leones worth of development projects with funds from Europe and USA. He is chiefly focused on community infrastructural development and economic resuscitation projects, fostering interethnic, interreligious and sociocultural cohesion among the young population in Kenema district. He is a member of many international peacebuilding initiatives including the United Religious Initiative (URI), International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP), Intercultural Leaders Network and Youth Solidary Fund program of the United Nations Alliance of Civilization (UNAOC)

The First Black Saudi Imam Heads for Sierra Leone: a Rejoinder

04/02/2012 Othman Sheriff

Dr. Ahmad Tamim Nassar, a history professor specialized in Egyptology answered “King Pharaoh!” with a tentative smile on the lips, when I asked him who was the first black decision [Read more]

Germany Displays Arabian Artefacts in Museum

29/01/2012 Othman Sheriff

It is a premiere for Germany. Never before have artefacts from Islam’s holiest site, the Kaaba in Mecca, been on display in the country. A new exhibit in Berlin’s famous Pergamum Museum traces history on the Arabian peninsula from the birth of civilization to the 20th century. [Read more]

Let the Sierra Leone Police Respect the Boolean Theory

19/01/2012 Othman Sheriff

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]

Stop Combining Politics and Religion in Sierra Leone

12/01/2012 Othman Sheriff

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]

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How United, is The United Nations?

23/09/2024

The United Nations, with a current membership of 193 was established in 1945. After the United Nations’ Charter was ratified by its main proponents China, France, The United Kingdom, The [Read more]

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If The Best Politics Is The Right Action, Charity Must Begin at Home.

17/09/2024

As Sierra Leone’s politics oscillates between the SLPP and APC, it sometimes takes a lot of effort, reflection and in most cases honest humility to come to terms with losing [Read more]

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When Complacency Becomes The Enemy of Stability……In Politics.

09/09/2024

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has through its multilateral armed force ECOMOG, a history of successful military interventions to “restore constitutional order within the region. To sports [Read more]

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Let The Punishment Fit The Crime, But Don’t Mistake The Law for Justice.

04/09/2024

Although politics in Sierra Leone today is undergoing some form of altered consciousness, thanks to the tribal, regional and base instincts that sometimes strangulate our collective will for national development, [Read more]