As SLPP flag bearer contest heats up, Dr. Kadi Sesay takes a commanding lead

As part of my research trip which took me to all districts of Sierra Leone, I decided to use my training and skills in probability theory and epidemiology to do a parallel study of the positioning of the presidential hopefuls for the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP).  (Photo: Dr Kadi Sesay in Bonthe) For a [...]

Notice of vacant position: Health & Safety Officer, Lunsar

London Mining Company Limited has an opening for the position of Health and Safety Officer at Lunsar. Salary:           Attractive Start Date:    ASAP Main Purpose: To advise and actively promote health and safety within construction sites on matters affecting the safety and health of its employees and non-employees, to monitor the health and safety activities [...]

Roaming Pen: City Police or City Thugs?

The activities of the Freetown City Council’s Metropolitan Police have left residents of the Freetown municipality to wonder whether these guys are real law enforcers or thugs in city officers’ clothing. (Photo: Abdul Karim Kabia aka Roaming Pen) The way and manner in which these metropolitan police execute their ‘duties’ in various parts of the [...]

Can Money Buy Happiness?

Money makes the world go around. Money can take you places that you could never imagine. Growing up in my household I was considered a spoiled brat. My mother gave my siblings and me anything our hearts desired. My cousins always wanted to come over to our house because we had any toy you could [...]

President Koroma administers Oath of Office to NEC chairperson, Judicial tribunal

President Ernest Bai Koroma has today administered the oath of office to the Chief Electoral Commissioner and Chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Dr. Christiana Ayoka Mary Thorpe, at a short but impressive ceremony at State House. Presenting Dr. Thorpe to President Koroma, the Minister of Internal Affairs and Local Government, Dauda Kamara, stated [...]

The GST receipt brouhala

The blame game appears to be a hall mark of this regime; nobody is prepared to come forward or own up when things go wrong, no matter how serious the matter may be. It was either someone else’s fault, or “it was Puawui who told me to do this,” only for Puawui to respond with,”It [...]

MAFFS concludes vaccination exercise against New Castle disease

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security and the Ministry of Health and Sanitation in Collaboration with the Freetown City Council Western Area Rural district council and the Sierra Leone Animal Welfare Society have concluded a two days vaccination exercise for backyard poultry against the New Castle disease. The vaccination exercise which targeted over 14,000 [...]

Jonathan’s record so far

“There is nothing so dangerous as a leader making a demand that he knows cannot be achieved. It creates false hopes among the people”. Nelson Mandela.“ 0803-089-8792 Presido, Jonathan has never been a CEO of any establishment before becoming president; so how can he know how to manage time and self-management?…” It still has not [...]

Abolition of the Ministry of Presidential and Public Affairs and appointment of Chief of Staff at State House

Consequent upon a functional review of the Office of the President undertaken by the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), His Excellency the President has graciously approved a range of structural and operational reforms for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the Presidency. These include the abolition of the Ministry of Presidential and Public Affairs [...]

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