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PONDERING OVER 2013: An Objective Commentary
What better way to start the year than reflecting on the past year. There is a potpourri of issues to mull over and, admittedly such reflections would be subject to [Read more]
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RANDOM MUSING: How Did We Miss It? Part three
Through The Looking Glass: Truth is on the scaffold and Falsehood on the throne 2. Where and how did we miss it? We allowed the pendulum to swing too far [Read more]
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RANDOM MUSING: How Did We Miss It? Part two
Through The Looking Glass: Truth is on the scaffold and Falsehood on the throne. As I was saying in my response to President Koroma’s puzzle about our national existence and [Read more]
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Critique Echo Newspaper Wishes Salone Prosperity in 2014
Dear Fellow Sierra Leoneans, on behalf of the editorial team of Critique Echo Newspaper, I wish to seize this opportunity to congratulate you all for your courage and tenacity to [Read more]
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Sierra Leone Becomes a One-Party State, Intra-party Abhorrence Engulfs the Opposition….
“Simma Seifui !” a go-getter car mechanic called Kallon shouted as I reversed into his garage while searching for a panel-beater to fix my exhaust which had been making irritating [Read more]
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RANDOM MUSING: How did we miss it Mr. President? Let me tell you…..
"How come with so many of our people excelling all over the world, from medicine to languages, to computer science, to engineering, and international administration that our country got stuck [Read more]
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War against Terrorism: Who is winning?
The world has always faced the terror of terrorism, but 11th. September, 2001 will be forever known as the day that terrorism made its universal declaration of Human carnage; the [Read more]
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Symposium on the Causes of and Solutions to Ethnic Based Politics, Religious and Cultural Discriminations in Sierra Leone Sierra Leone
Speech On Religious and Cultural Discriminations By Backar Sesay, Secretary General, Action Star Youth Club (ASYC) Mr. Chairman, His lordship the Mayor of Kenema Municipality, representatives of: line Ministries, Chiefdom [Read more]
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Symposium on the Causes of and Solutions to Ethnic Based Politics, Religious and Cultural Discriminations in Sierra Leone Sierra Leone
Youth in Action for Development, YAD, is currently implementing a project titled Youth Sensitization Against Ethnic Voting, Religious and Cultural Discriminations in Sierra Leone, with funds from the United Nations [Read more]
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RANDOM MUSING: The Tragic Emasculation of Serious National Discourse.
As the year draws to a close, what comes to me, like the beams from a lighthouse in a dark and merciless sea, is that the house of cards we [Read more]
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RANDOM MUSING: Are the Dark Nights of Our Political Soul Making a Comeback?
Right now, Sierra Leone is like a bridge broken at the farther end. Our conflicting interests are not only making national identity and total reconciliation so problematic, the lack of [Read more]
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The Vice Presidency: A Steppingstone or Milestone? Lessons Chief Sam Sumana Should be Au Fait With.
When JF Kennedy said “and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future”- JFK was certainly referring to those who bury their heads [Read more]
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Makeni City in NPA Crisis.
Makeni city may boast as one of the darlings of the National Power Authority, courtesy of its enviable record as the highest paying consumer city in the country. Considering that [Read more]
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Main Street in Kenema Becomes a Death trap
The two main roads running across the city of Kenema, Hangha Road and Blama Road including several of the streets in the city have turned eye sores as they have [Read more]
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“Politics is Show Business for Ugly People.
The scheduled elections for 2017 are a long way off and we know that a week in politics is a long time. But our current political landscape is flooded with [Read more]