In these days the African Union (AU) has been presented with a challenge and opportunity - the challenge of dealing forthrightly with the illegitimate government of someone who can be rightfully referred to as "former President Robert Mugabe", calling his game to an end and instead exploiting the opportunity to gain the credibility and relevance it so desires as a continental grouping towards a new course of democracy and development for Africa.

On Thursday 12^th June 2008, I received response from ACC stating that ACC does not have power to investigate forgery under the ACC Act 2000. I have therefore listed some of the most common offences that might be concealed through the act of forgery. Forgery in most cases will lead to no audit trail and ACC  will not achieve its objectives without proper fraud/forgery investigation and prosecuting powers.

Anyone who has followed the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa will be worried at the news that Sierra Leone Immigration Officers are arresting hundreds of illegal foreign nationals because of what the Chief Immigration Officer refers to as “many anti-social activities orchestrated by alleged foreign nationals” (quoted in BBC website, 19/06/08). Whilst I am not questioning the need for the authorities to control immigration, I strongly object to the scapegoating of foreign nationals as criminals.

Journalism, the Fourth Estate of the realm is a noble and acknowledged profession the world all over.  Journalists have, among their arsenal of strategies the potential to either promote or derail the development plans of a country through their analysis of issues, programmes and socio-political leadership.

Several weeks ago, various papers carried either substantiated or unsubstantiated stories in which graphic details about huge sums of relatively scarce public funds were expended on foreign travel.  Various constructive suggestions were made and it seems president Koroma has reacted positively to them in the interest of the country

We want to thank the organizers of this event for inviting the Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD), to make a brief statement.  We also want to thank the authors of the book, which we are about to launch, as well as all those journalists, human rights and civil society activists whose efforts and steadfastness have contributed to making this day a reality.

The Sierra Leone Military marches on to Kono amidst all the violence

It takes a little foresight and effort to envision that should things continue in the current vein much longer, Kono is going to experience a major eruption. The rate at which things are degenerating in the district seriously bothers the patriotic minds. In recent times, the district has manifested a seeming willingness to swap its legendary and much revered reputation of being “Best Basket of Sierra Leone” to that of “The Trouble Basket of Sierra Leone”

The rate at which things are progressing in Sierra Leone is absolutely incredible.  Today’s conformists were yesterday’s non-conformists.  Last years political spectators are now in the forefront of political activism.  In light of the above observation, this writer has raised the rhetorical, who would have thought that, poser?

Starting from Sierra Leone, since this year, there has been campaigns West Africa-wide for attitude change as a progress measure. Anybody who knows West Africa well, as Kwasi Gyan-Apeteng, a former editor of the prestigious London, UK-based West Africa magazine (now defunct) and currently member of Ghana’s National Commission of Culture, will tell you, “we are poor because we lack the right attitude

After a century that saw two world wars, the Nazi Holocaust, Stalin’s Gulag, the killing fields of Cambodia, and more recent atrocities in Rwanda and now Darfur, the belief that we are progressing morally has become difficult to defend. Yet there is more to the question than extreme cases of moral breakdown. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In response to the crimes committed during World War II

Finally, the “mother of all weddings” is allegedly scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 11, 2008 between the biggest catch, former President Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and Madam Isata Jabbie (IJ).  The innuendos and gossip surrounding the relationship between these two people should remain buried.  What is now important is their alleged decision to tie the marital knot.  Bravo “Nfa” and “IJ”.“IJ”, it is alleged has been patient, resilient, loyal and very supportive of the “Pa” since the early 1990s”