16 September 2012 When the vice president of Sierra Leone – Sam Sumana called a press conference in Freetown a few weeks ago to deny allegations of impropriety and corruption, many listening to what he had to say, felt that he had not done enough to lay to bed the [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 15 September 2012 Your Excellency, the Thursday, 13 September, 2012, front page of the Awareness times newspaper carried a report of an interview, which its publisher – Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, said you granted her, following the decision at State House on Thursday to return to the 2007 [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 September 2012 The publisher of the Standard Times newspaper is notorious in the profession for his malevolence, character assassination and of course prejudice. He is among the majority of journalists who in recent times have looked at ‘The Truth’ straight in the eye [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon 11 September 2012 For many years now, Sierra Leone has been like a boxer, coming round after a sniff of smelling salt, with half-remembered taste, smell and sound of the day before yesterday. But apart from the adulation of mediocrity, clannishness, ethnocentricity and other retrogressive tendencies that [Read More]
Dennis Kabatto 9 September 2012 As far as Africa is concerned, prizes don’t come any bigger and challenging than this – the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) Literary prize for writers of Nigerian descent, based both at home and abroad. Currently in its ninth anniversary, The Nigeria Prize for Literature [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 8 September 2012 The leadership of the All Peoples Congress (APC) Party has stopped at nothing in order to cling to the Presidency and control the Parliament of tomorrow. And, like I have persistently called attention, they have gone from one dishonourable path to another, in achieving [Read More]
7 September, 2012 The war crimes trial of Liberia’s warlord – Charles Taylor, who was early this year sentenced at The Hague for crimes against humanity – committed in Sierra Leone, has also netted four other convicted senior former rebel soldiers, who have been accused of tampering with witnesses during [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2012 In the news this week, the world’s leading computer and smart phone technology company – Apple, won its legal battle in the US against Samsung for infringement of patent rights, involving its IPad tablet computing technology. Samsung may have to pay Billions of Dollars [Read More]
Alhaji Kallon: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2012: During the inauguration of President Koroma in late 2007, the organisers of the show and the newly elected president Koroma, did not allow President Kabba to read his handing over notes. Was this action of the APC due to the fact that they [Read More]
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