ACC Cautions Ministry of Health top officials

Top officials of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, as well as the Minister of State, representing the office of the Vice President were called to a meeting by the Anti-Corruption Commission on 2nd February 2010 to discuss the way forward in the Health Sector.  It could be recalled that the ACC since last year [...]

As Commonwealth Secretary General visits Sierra Leone… time for Youth to put their case across

There will be intense excitement as the Commonwealth Secretary General, Kamalesh Sharma visit Sierra Leone from the 7 and 9 February 2010. (Photo: Abubakarr Meseh Kamara, Author) Much will be made about the significance of Sharma’s first official visit to Sierra Leone as Secretary General of the Commonwealth, especially the fact that the Sierra Leone [...]

Keynote address at the 58th National Prayer Breakfast

SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you very much. I have to begin by saying I’m not Bono. (Laughter.) Those of you who were here when he was, I apologize beforehand. (Laughter.) But it is a great pleasure to be with you and to be here with President and Mrs. Obama, to be with Vice President [...]

Sierra Leone’s Tourism Minister in the running for prestigious Africa-investor Tourism Award

Africa investor (Ai), a leading international investment research and communications group, today announced that the Hon. Hindolo Sumanguru Trye, Sierra Leone’s tourism minister, will join six other Africa ministers on the shortlist which could see the Honourable Hindolo Sumanguru Trye win the coveted Africa investor (Ai) African Tourism Minister of the Year Award. The winner’s [...]

Thinking Aloud: City Father and City Traders – Strange bedfellows

One disgusting feature about our capital, Freetown is over population. Too many living things in the capital! These can be categorized as humans (consisting of commuters, pedestrians, street kids, hawkers, street traders, beggars, mad people, etc). Some demographers say the population of street beggars and mad people (often referred to as the medically ill) all [...]

Sierra Unite goodwill gesture

Sierra Unite, a Sierra Leonean philanthropic organization based in Sydney Australia is an  organization  that  has  been working  hand  in  glove with the  Kanga  schools  project which  is  also based in Australia which over the years has sponsored about 33 schools throughout  Sierra Leone. These two organizations have merged specifically to help build on the [...]

AWOL Takes Charge of 50th Independence Anniversary

All Walks of Life (AWOL) last weekend launched its bid to take full charge of the celebration of the country’s 50th Anniversary celebration, a campaign which the chairman of the group Chernor Bah told journalists at the Bintumani Hotel will commence April this year and will run into April of 2011 when the country would [...]

ABC Subjects should be introduced into our learning

As corruption and other unethical practices are indelible prints in the lives of many sierra Leoneans, it is high time educationalists and government introduce the ‘Attitudinal and Behavioural Change’ (ABC)  into our learning curricula. Quoting them, both Kabba and His Excellency Earnest Bai Koroma emphasize on the same phrases in most of their public speeches [...]

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 [...]

Koroma’s Government and Corruption

Most of what permeates the local press in Sierra Leone for the past week in the apparent lip service of government in the fight against corruption; an issue which the president as head of state has vowed to working very strongly against when he took over the reigns of power not long ago in 2007. [...]

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