NDA in uneasy go slow in Sierra Leone

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has suddenly developed hitches along the line towards the approach of the polls in November. The party which has a been in existence since 1996 has a record of surviving the norm odds of politics till date but a change of ideology has manifested squarely on the party’s input manpower [...]

Dauda Mansaray aspires for Constituency 93

Over the years, great admirers and initiators of goodwill, have demonstrated great ability and strength to build what is today the new Goderich highways and communities across the Sixty Mile Road around the peninsular. All of these fine honorable men and women have not only exemplified themselves in pushing for socio-economic justice and Infrastructural development for [...]

“I am the most peaceful aspirant among the eleven” says Akim Bangura

This statement was made by Akim Bangura, the people Honorable on Friday May 11 in Constituency 101 on his official declaration to the Executive Members of Kissy Bypass road. Speaking during the declaration ceremony, chairman Abubakarr Sidikie Kabbah said presently they have eleven aspirants in Constituency 101 including a woman and amongst only six have [...]

Mustapha Massaquoi – The Silent Kingmaker

The name Mustapha Massaquoi, commonly known as “Staffay”, is not being trumpeted within the APC party but that should not be surprising, given the fact that the man who carries this name has always enjoyed being in the back seat working tirelessly on the engine to help the drivers in the APC do the perfect [...]

Maada Bio puts youths and economy at heart of speech in London

It was a day our APC friends had thought would never come and some possibly prayed not to come. The day a former military head of state showed his credentials why he wanted to be the democratically elected president of a poverty-stricken nation of six million people. The very day when a politician of the [...]

Building a case for President Koroma’s second term

I was part of a delegation that recently met the Deputy Director-General for African Affairs at the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Zheng Zhuqiang.  After beautiful exchanges and discussions between him and the Ambassador of Sierra Leone to the People’s Republic of China, HE Abubakarr Multi-Kamara, I was moved, particularly by the words of Zheng Zhuqiang that [...]

Obama makes another history, but at what cost?

In Greece yesterday, the Olympic flame was lit by beautifully clad “Greek Goddesses” in Athens; to mark the beginning of the customary journey that ushers in every Olympic session. The journey will involve 8,000 torchbearers on its 70 –day relay that will culminate in its final destination in London’s Olympic Stadium in East London, Stratford. [...]

Is the SLPP listening?

The belief that the South-East is the stronghold of the SLPP was ostensibly debunked last weekend when thousands of Easterners came out to welcome President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma first in Kono, and later in Kailahun.  I was totally surprised that such mammoth crowds could come out with smiles on their faces as they sang [...]

Maada Bio honoured at John Utaka Foundation launching for children and youths

Despite his busy schedules this week to meet with western diplomats, UK government officials, and to prepare for his maiden international speech at the Chatham House on Thursday 10th May, Rtd. Brigadier Julius Maada Bio took time off to grace the formal launching ceremony of the John Utaka foundation at the banquet hall of the [...]

Voting the APC out of power in Sierra Leone is a national service – Maada Bio

Rtd. Julius Maada Bio continues to woo Sierra Leoneans in the UK and on Monday he made this statement to hundreds of Sierra Leoneans in Reading as he was mobilising them for the November 2012 elections.  In Reading, the Flag bearer launched two new SLPP chapters – Reading and Bristol – of the United Kingdom [...]

The night when Biomania hit London

It was a night when even the UK Government Adviser and Deputy Leader, Rt Hon Simon Hughes (MP), of one of the two governing parties of the UK Coalition Government had to stay till after 1:00 a.m. just to welcome the Rtd. Brigadier Julius Maada Bio to the United Kingdom.  In fact, one of the [...]

Konos told to close ranks, farmers empowered

The Leader, Chairman and presidential candidate of the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC), President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has Thursday 3rd May 2012 made his final appeal to the sons and daughters of Kono to mend fences, work and speak with one voice. He made the final plea following the presentation of agricultural and farming [...]

President Koroma invades SLPP stronghold

President Ernest Bai Koroma and a group of cabinet ministers, members of the All Peoples Congress (APC) at both district and national level, including local dignitaries from various parts across the country, over the weekend stormed the eastern district of Kenema to garner support and sensitize local communities about government policies and programmes. The president [...]

APC aspirant, Lavay given a hero’s crowd

Headman of Adonkia village in the peninsular region of Freetown, Mr. Albert Gibao Lavay who is aspiring for the APC symbol to contest for the position of Councillor in the November polls has received a hero’s pool of crowd support. Residents in Constituency 93 Ward 333 on Monday converged peacefully to declare their allegiance and [...]

Butterfly politics lifts the veil of secrecy from fakes

Forgive me for breaking my promise that I was taking a short break in honour of my brother, the late Olu Gordon. But even he would have been filled with rage as he surveys the political scene and sees the chilling and ruthless determination of some politicians and commentators with cold-blooded contempt for the normal [...]

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