The Head of the UN Mission and Representative of the United Nations Secretary General in Sierra Leone, Mr. Michael von Schulenburg, was recently recalled by the Secretary General in New [Read more]
Members of the Laity Council of the Makeni Diocese past Monday walked out of a meeting with the College of Bishops after the reading of their position statement in a [Read more]
The mind-set of fifteen traditional chiefs and queen-mothers, from the Tongu area in Ghana’s Volta Region, descending on the National Police Headquarters in Accra, to sympathize with their tribes-man, Alfred [Read more]
PRESS RELEASE February 22, 2012/ — Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and Adnan Amin, Director General of the International Renewable Energy Agency [Read more]
Every day in recent weeks, I have found myself confronted with the question of who should be the next Mayor of Freetown. In many of the discussions that follows the [Read more]
More than 60,000 Liberian refugees spread in countries of the West African sub region will no longer be accepted under such status beginning July 1 this year, the UN refugee [Read more]
From the north of the Limpopo, right down to the south of the Sahara, pre-colonial empires have risen and fallen. There was the Songhai, the Mutapa, Ghana, Mali and right [Read more]
German President Christian Wulff resigned in disgrace today, finally bowing to pressure and a lack of trust on the back of months of revelations about blurred lines between personal, business [Read more]
The recent statement by Retired Brigadier Mr Maada Bio in relation to combatants and plans by the ruling party to create chaos and anarchy in traditional opposition areas has certainly [Read more]
Almost ten months into the 2012 general election, Ghana’s ruling party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), appears to be in never-ending turmoil. The restless ex-President Jerry Rawlings, the alleged founder [Read more]
Alhaji Soulay Basirou Daramy entered the Civil Service as an Administrative Officer (Cadet) in December 1975 with enthusiasm and high expectations to contribute to the development of his country. After [Read more]
On a day that Tottenham Hotspurs emphatically announced their arrival to the high table of English football with a thumping hammering of Newcastle FC, it was sad that the talk [Read more]
The United Nations was pressured by the president of Sierra Leone to cut short the tour of its mission chief ahead of an election later this year, the envoy said [Read more]
Keith Martin, of Harlesden, North-West London, has been bed-ridden for a decade and took the dubious accolade from Mexican Manuel Uribe who lost 60 stone to hit 31 stone after [Read more]
President Ernest Bai Koroma has said that he will appeal to the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to increase the number of biometric kits deployed by NEC in the Western Area. [Read more]
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