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OPINION
Posted by Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) on Aug 23, 2010, 20:31
If indeed there is life after death (which I am very much skeptical about), Harold McMillan and his French counterpart, wherever they might now be enjoying or damning their second life, would definitely be interested in Africa as 17 African countries will be celebrating or have already celebrated their

Sierra Leonean Selected to be Peace Pioneer in International Youth Project

NEWS
Posted by on Aug 23, 2010, 20:30
22-year-old Herbert Bangura of Sierra Leone has been selected as one of thirty-five young participants in the 2010 Nkabom Commonwealth Youth Leadership Programme

Sierra Leone Government To Rescue Intending Pilgims To Mecca

NEWS
Posted by on Aug 22, 2010, 12:59

Vice President Sumana to During his Pilgrim to Mecca

The issue of the holy pilgrimage to Mecca has always been characterized with bad arrangements that never go down well with most intending pilgrims, their relatives and the Muslim community as a whole. As a result of these bad arrangements in the hands of wrong people

More Revelation Billions Chopped at SLRTA�Bank Documents Forged

NEWS
Posted by on Aug 22, 2010, 12:57
In an attempt to implicate the Guaranty Trust Bank in the issuance of fake documents to secure vehicle licenses at the Sierra Leone Road Transport Authority (SLRTA), several documents bearing the identity of the bank were falsified by officials running the fraud scheme at the Authority

How Maada Bio Exposes Brigadier Kelie Conteh To Captain Strasser

NEWS
Posted by on Aug 22, 2010, 12:43

Julius Maada Bio Complained Some Years Back About Kelli Conteh's Effieciency

It is like a circle coming around and meeting at the same point of take-off. What retired Brigadier Maada Bio did was in his estimation considered in the interest of the state

SLPP James Jonah Vs. APC Christiana Thorpe�s Appointment

OPINION
Posted by David Y. Worry � 078 226-998 on Aug 22, 2010, 12:37
When one sits quietly and thinks of our democracy at play, one begins to wonder at the gimmicks of some of our politicians and public critics of our times in their pursuit to deceive their followers

Deal Busted...Sierra Leone Road Transport Authority Issues Out 380 Fake Licenses

NEWS
Posted by on Aug 20, 2010, 13:00
Initially, it started as a rumour that huge chunk of money from the sale of motor vehicle licenses could not be accounted for by some officials of the Sierra Leone Road Transport Authority (SLRTA) at Kissy road.

Superintendent Logan in US$6,000 Scandal...Refuses to Talk to the Press

NEWS
Posted by on Aug 20, 2010, 12:48
The Head of the Anti Drugs in the Sierra Leone Police Force, Superintendent Logan may have to give several convincing explanations to his immediate superiors in the Force for Good and the public to restore his professional integrity

Social Development Officer Says Nigerian Child Trafficker Is A Crook

NEWS
Posted by on Aug 20, 2010, 12:19

Passport Of Alleged Nigerian Child Trafficker Ada

Ada Florence Isoidu, an employee of the United Bank of Africa (UBA) who is said to have trafficked two children to Nigeria is defending her position by explaining that the two children she took to Nigeria were handed to her by officials of the Ministry of Social Welfare at New England

Ghanaian Born UN Diplomat In Sierra Leone Love Triangle... $5,000 for Love and Co-habitation

NEWS
Posted by on Aug 18, 2010, 20:46
Mr. Emmanuel Tofosie, working for the United Nations Food and Population Activity (UNFPA), an arm of the United Nations under the Ministry of Health and Sanitation in Sierra Leone, with assignment to Strengthening District Health Services Project is living in the country

Panic Grips Hill Station�Chief Tony Present, But Not to Collect Cocaine

NEWS
Posted by on Aug 18, 2010, 20:27

Panic gripped the environs of the Choithram Memorial Hospital yesterday when a white Helicopter landed without the knowledge of the authorities of the hospital and Standard Times Executive editor was the first individual among the long list of journalists to register their presence at the scene

Sierra Leone�s VP Sumana Preaches Health Gospel in Bo District

NEWS
Posted by on Aug 18, 2010, 20:21
The Ministry of Health and Sanitation in collaboration with government development partners and key stake holders in the health delivery service have taken another giant step with the hosting of a two- day- health compact development retreat as a forum to developing

Sierra Leone�s National Electoral Commission Wants $89 Million For 2010-2014 Strategic Plan

NEWS
Posted by FAYIA AMARA FAYIA on Aug 18, 2010, 19:52
Commissioners of the National Electoral Commission (NEC) Sierra Leone on Wednesday 28th July 2010 prepared a Strategic Plan of Action for the year 2010-2014 covering six priority areas for budgetary considerations, which included human resource, infrastructure, electoral and legal reform, electoral education, monitoring and evaluation

Government of Sierra Leone Concerned About the Unsatisfactory Management of Hajj Affairs

PRESS RELEASE
Posted by on Aug 18, 2010, 19:43
The Government of Sierra Leone is concerned about the unsatisfactory management of Hajj Affairs over the years which has culminated in the unnecessary suffering of pilgrims in the Holy Land whilst performing their spiritual duties. Hajj Committees

Soccer�s Mohamed Bangura's Fairy-Tale Journey From Sierra Leone to Sweden

SPORTS
Posted by Philip O'Connor (Reuters) on Aug 18, 2010, 19:31

Mohamed Bangura Sierra Leone's Rising Star Playing For Swedish Champions AIK

Mohamed Bangura was plucked from poverty on the streets of Sierra Leone by a Frenchman called "Papa Jacques" in a fairy tale story he vows will take him to the pinnacle of soccer

UN Millennium Campaign Calls For African Government�s Commitments Towards MDGs

NEWS
Posted by Ishmael Kindama Dumbuya on Aug 18, 2010, 19:12
As the world is approaching the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York coming September 2010, the United Nations Millennium Campaign has urged African governments to uphold and reaffirm their commitments towards the achievement of the MDGs

UN-HABITAT Gives $ 20,000 Grant For Disability Project in Sierra Leone

NEWS
Posted by on Aug 18, 2010, 18:23
A DISABLED YOUTH-led centre in Sierra Leone that almost had to close its doors is celebrating a new lease of life with the help of a UN-HABITAT grant from its Urban Youth Fund which awards grants worth in total close to USD one million

Old Leadership, New Leadership

VIEWPOINT
Posted by Kofi Akosah-Sarpong on Aug 18, 2010, 13:17
Leadership has become a buzz word for practitioners, bureaucrats and theorists of African development. The term variously means a process of getting work done through people. Leadership may not be science but it is committed

Trouble Hit Kenema City Council�As Procurement Officer Dragged To Court

NEWS
Posted by Fayia Amara Fayia on Aug 16, 2010, 21:31

Daniel Kpukumu who was recently dragged to the Kenema Police Station for allegedly assaulting

The Kenema City Council has again being hit by another embarrassing incident involving one of its staffs , the procurement officer Daniel Kpukumu who was recently dragged to the Kenema Police Station for allegedly assaulting one Fatmata Binta Barrie resulting to bodily harm.

DFID Report Damns NRA Operations...Canadian Job Hustler Wants Customs Dismantled

NEWS
Posted by on Aug 16, 2010, 21:21
A frustrated Canadian divorcee, who now parades government offices in search of a job and also trying to penetrate State House, is a desperate man. He is desperate to grab everything to replenish what he lost to his wife whose service is currently engaged by a hairdressing Saloon along Wilkinson Road in Freetown

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