Category Archives: Editorial

Editorial

Massive blow to Sierra Leone’s opposition SLPP party as former f...

July 3, 2012 no comments

It was only a matter of time for the world to witness the abysmal disintegration of Sierra Leone’s oldest political party. When you have a political organisation whose hierarchy is made up of c...

Wanted!! – Julius Maada Bio – For economic crimes, the bru...

June 21, 2012 10 comments

Sierra Leone is at risk of not being accepted as a full-fledged member of the international community of nations, if Julius Maada Bio is elected president of this small West African country. The effe...

Politics in shambles – Sierra Leone’s opposition SLPP part...

June 15, 2012 1 comment

There was a time when the SLPP was a serious political party. It was the party thousands queued-up to secure membership for. Then, it was the crème de la crème of our country’s political make-up, but...

Outstanding leadership – Sierra Leone President Koroma prepares ...

June 8, 2012 6 comments

Just under six months from now, the people of Sierra Leone will be heading to the polls once more.  Its been four years since they voted in numbers to elect Ernest Bai Koroma as their president. The ...

The Schulenburg affair – A disgraceful diplomatic attempt to med...

May 14, 2012 no comments

The United Nations has resident representatives in most countries across the world, to make sure the organisation’s important work is well coordinated and implemented appropriately to reflect o...

Africa turns a new page – As good governance becomes a way of life in ...

May 11, 2012 1 comment

President Obama used the last session of the UN  general assembly in New York to express his admiration for the wonderful work the Sierra Leone president is doing to alleviate poverty in his country....

Sierra Leone becomes the first country in Africa to launch a transpare...

May 9, 2012 4 comments

The President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Dr Ernest Bai Koroma, has taken the unprecedented step to launch a transparency web portal, the first in Africa, to facilitate a more transparent and ac...

Tony Blair says Sierra Leone’s President Koroma has taken on the...

April 24, 2012 no comments

The former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in a recent contribution to Britain’s best selling and most reputable newspaper, The Guardian, described the Sierra Leone President, Ernest Bai Ko...

Integrating and differentiating the enlightenment voices

April 12, 2012 no comments

Prof. Esi Sutherland-Addy, of the University of Ghana’s Institute of African Studies, floating of a Ghana Cultural Forum to some sort of differentiate and integrate the Ghanaian culture for progress,...

New breed of leaders respond to Africa’s call for attitudinal change...

March 31, 2012 no comments

Africa is experiencing a dramatic political change that has the propensity to alter its long–standing image as a corruption breeding ground and a political and economically challenged region, that th...

Agenda for Change – Sierra Leone’s president Koroma laying the foundat...

March 27, 2012 no comments

Ernest Bai Koroma hails from Makeni, in the Bombali District of the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. Makeni has always been central in Sierra Leone’s political, social and economic circumstances no...

Sierra Leone’s President Koroma – One of the first African head ...

March 20, 2012 no comments

Though unusual in African political life, there are Heads of States who set examples of good leadership and define the standards that others would have to emulate. On assuming office just less than f...

Jerry Rawlings on the enlightenment cylinder

February 29, 2012 no comments

Suddenly, ex-President Jerry Rawlings has had epiphany about the on-going Ghana/African enlightenment movement. Face-to-face with some lethal cultural inhibitions that have been demeaning Ghanaians’/...