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August 2015

The misuse of government vehicles seems to have become a culture in this country; the Mayor of the Kenema City Council, Joseph Samba Keifala, has admitted that he uses the government-donated Toyota Hilux van officially

Marie Samura: Died due to manual strangulation The Prosecution Witness five (PW5), Issa Samura, who identified himself as the junior brother of the deceased, Marie Samura, delivered his testimony yesterday before Magistrate Siray Wurie of Court

A notorious gangster popularly called Two Shots is reported to have stabbed to death a twenty-eight years old youth called Joseph Forbie whose remains have been conveyed to the Connaught Hospital Mortuary. Reports say the ugly

Based on the behavior of his fellow citizens, Professor Parrot has developed and propounded a new political concept called CORRUPTOCRACY which can be simply defined as government of the corrupt, for the corrupt and by

We are now living in a very dangerous country where anybody can stab anybody anytime and anywhere. The rate at which people are now stabbing people is becoming alarming and has become a cause for

In Sierra Leone, journalism seems to have become a free-for-all profession which every Jack and Jill can practice. In fact, this country is now witnessing a high population of impostor journalists whose main duty is

The appearance of the “khaki boys” on the political stage in Sierra Leone came about as a sequel to what had started in Nigeria (11 coups by the 70s and 19 towards the end of

Donald Trump appeared to be the flavour of the month and had been flying high on the American political Richter scale. But it seems that either the wheels are coming off the rails or he

I have read with fitting attention, the piece written by Lansana Kormoh (Dr.), (my former University Lecturer), titled; “When Governance institutions fail, Democracy Perishes: Sierra Leone”, a clear attempt to critically assessing “governance institutions as

With Rolling Stone’s retraction of the UVA rape story after investigation by Columbia University, notwithstanding, actress and playwright Fariso Jordan succeeds in keeping it strictly real in her rescripted, full production play Georgia. Fariso’s play Georgia

My Fellow Countrymen: Chief Bombolai’s eloquent explanation about the state of political affairs of Sierra Leone, has demonstrated that he is truly a Sierra Leonean patriot. What I have often told these guys on the