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Late Michael Jackson’s initiative supported in Sierra Leone

The Executive Coordinator of the Sfano Musical Production and Entertainment Association, Mr. Sfano Njawa Sesay last Friday on the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Cooperation television on the Good Morning progamme disclosed to the pubic his association’s decision to further support the “HEAL THE WORLD” initiative by late Michael Jackson. The “Heal the World” initiative was designed [...]

Issues At Large 04-26-10 – It’s Back!

I am back folks and my bag is full with Issues At Large. I was away for a long long vacation to let loose the writing cramps and get back into top gear and now I am back. In my absence, a lot has been happening in the country. Leading the list of events is [...]

Issues At Large 1-28-10

Give Lillian Lisk a chance Lillian Lisk is a household name in Sierra Leone. From a grass roots beginning, Lisk was able to surmount the usual belief that a woman’s place is in the home when she tackled the responsibility of setting up a whole industry by herself. But Lillian Lisk is no stranger to [...]

Issues At Large 1-26-10

The Lying Minister Alhaji Alpha Kanu (Khan), Minister of Mineral resources and presidential Affairs in the Ernest Bai Koroma administration is no stranger to controversies. Long before becoming a minister of government, Kanu had made waves as the man who took money from intending Muslim pilgrims with the promise that he will take them to [...]

Issues at Large 12-2-09

Daru Soldiers & SLPP Promises National Chairman of the Sierra Leone People’s Party Mr. John Oponjo Benjamin has promised that soldiers will be redeployed to the Daru Military depot as soon as his party wins in the 2012 elections. The Daru Depot has been selected by the Defense Ministry to be closed up as part [...]

Issues at Large 11-26-09

Of Bribery and Poverty in Kono Sad news to have heard a case of $15,000 bribery that flopped between Lebanese (in the guise of Diamond Dealers Association) diamond merchants and the Ministry of Mines Officials in the country’s poorest and most affected region in the past brutal and devastating war. The Diamond Dealers Association in [...]

Issues at Large 11-23-09

Tourism: Birds as Tourist Attraction For ornithologists, (that is people interested in the study of birds) Sierra Leone is a bird’s paradise in West Africa, as it is a country that has varied species of birds. There is also the belief that there are some species of birds which are only found in Sierra Leone, [...]

Issues at Large 11-18-09

Dr. Leslie E.T. Shyllon Dies University Don and well known religious leader Dr. Lslie E.T. Shyllon has died. The well known academic passed away last week end following a short illness. Before his death, he had authored two books: One on medical ethics and the second on two centuries of Christianity in the African Province [...]

Issues At Large 11-16-09

Diamonds Not Forever British writer Ian Fleming in his book, ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ made a succinct point when he highlighted the fact that diamonds which had always been seen as minerals which are forever, are not in fact forever! This has been shown in Kono District where the much talked about diamonds have now become [...]

Issues at Large 11-12-09

The house to house robbery In Sierra Leone, it is part of the work ofÂ Christian evangelists to carry out house to house preaching, but now armed robbers, sinister and with a killer instinctÂ have also started doing the same rounds, though with a differentÂ motive. Armed robbers now engage in house to house visits, [...]

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