6 November 2012 Former Nigerian president – Army General Olusegun Obasanjo, is said to have struck highly lucrative oil exploration deal with president Koroma of Sierra Leone, which analysts believe could be worth billions of dollars. Sierra Leone’s offshore oil production potential has been sold off by president Koroma’s government [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon 5 November 2012 I am aware that in our part of the world, when the season of politics is in full flow, truth not only becomes a scapegoat, it is often made to beat a hasty retreat. However, election is about the future – not the past, or [Read More]
5 November 2012 The seventh African Economic Conference ended on the 2nd November, 2012 in Kigali, Rwanda, after prominent speakers including economic policy experts called for a change in the shape and direction of economic development policies in Africa. According to APO, participants at the closing session of the [Read More]
3 November 2012 Many a time it has been argued that Mendes do not like to venture out and work in many areas in the Northern Province of the country. What most of those who make such assertions fail to research is: why is it that Mendes do not feel [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 31 October 2012 It is interesting the way nature behaves sometimes Last Saturday, the opposition Sierra Leones Party (SLPP), held their second rally in Freetown, with the same mammoth crowd and carnival atmosphere. It was indeed the very same day that his Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma, left [Read More]
Ian Hughes – British High Commissioner in Sierra Leone 31 October 2012 Campaigning has begun. Boisterous crowds chant and sing, wave placards and dance behind their candidates. Walls are plastered with posters. Newspapers admire this candidate, assail that one. TV and radio bustle with comment, criticism and analysis. When the [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 30 October 2012 Voters will be doing a great service to this nation when they vote the APC out of State House on November 17. This is a regime that is steeped in corruption and other governance misdeeds up to their nose. It is a party that [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 October 2012: When the Sierra Leone Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) saw it fit to put out a public statement, expressing concern “about an incident, which took place in Freetown on Friday 12th October 2012, involving the motorcade of His Excellency the President – Dr. Ernest [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon 25 October 2012 Of the many absurd steps taken to dress our political system in borrowed robes, purportedly on behalf of the teeming illiterate masses, possibly the most ridiculous or hilarious, is the idea of having two of our November elections’ gladiators to take part in what [Read More]
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