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The Enduring Uniqueness in Star Beer

Many of us who had interest in the recent series of attacks on the long and venerated character of one of Sierra Leones finest and locally brewed products-Star Beer, perplexity and confoundedness overtook us due to the alarmist and hysterical approach that was instituted to ensuring that the long earned good-name of the product is [...]

Corporate plot to sink African Minerals

Everywhere in the world where big cooperate institutions exist and want to strive, often at the expense of rival institutions, there is bound to be what is termed as corporate war that is most times fought with what ever available weapon ranging from blackmail, deplorable and senseless media stunts and often crude and physical frontal [...]

Counting Our Blessings with African Minerals

“You cannot light a lamp and hide it under a basket”, so stated Jesus Christ, the greatest man that once walked the face of the earth. This implies that you cannot get a good thing but not show appreciation for it.
One good thing that has happened to Sierra Leone as a State and as a [...]

Sierra Leone and the Disease of Lawlessness

In Chinua Achebe’s award winning short story, ‘Surviving The Peace’, a man who has been able to survive the war, dodging government troops and rebel forces and even keeping his old Flying Pigeon bicycle intact by burying it behind his hut where it remained till the end of hostilities, is nearly killed when armed robbers [...]

That Contaminated Star Beer and All!

The Pull Him Down Syndrome commonly called PhD is not a peculiar phenomenon in Sierra Leone. It is something that is on the increase in Sierra Leone on a daily basis as we try to match up with other developed nations in the world. The PhD phenomenon exists in every sphere of life of the [...]

“70%-75% of the new Mining Act is good for Sierra Leone, but implementation is the problem”… says Lawyer Pa-Momo Fofanah

Prominent Freetown Lawyer, Mohamed Pa-Momo Fofanah, stated at a two-day training workshop on the impact of Sierra Rutile mining in Bonthe and Moyamba Districts and the new mining act that ended over the weekend at Panguma in the rutile mines, southern Sierra Leone, that “The new mining act is good for Sierra Leone, but implementation [...]

Juvenile Justice at threat in Sierra Leone

Accessible justice system in any democratic state is a prerequisite for sustainable development. Therefore for a country to develop rapidly, that country must ensure that premium is been laid on the justice system, especially the juvenile justice system which caters for the interest of children.
A country cannot survive so easily when it has a very [...]

Security Compromises: a growing concern for government

Now that the country is being willed towards the wooing of investors to invest in various areas of development, security concerns should be held paramount as frequent breach of the country’s security has the potential to stalemate the effort of the president to court investors to the country in pursuance of his agenda for change.
It [...]

NAS and the Support to HIV and AIDS Campaign

In the global picture of HIV and AIDS, Sierra Leone is blessed to be among those countries with a low prevalence rate of infection, a situation that is rare in third world sub-Sahara underdeveloped countries.
The truth though remains that as a developing country; Sierra Leone continues to face an intractable development dilemma in many areas [...]

Is Margai afraid of the APC?

When the political table turned against Charles Francis Margai over the SLPP leadership in 2005, many people saw it as an unfair play against him as he deserved all rights to the SLPP leadership. Those who are staunch believers of his seeming uncompromising principle in politics advised him to form a political party which many [...]

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