The regulation of the media in Sierra Leone – An important step towards national development
The media’s role in the development of any country is not only vital, it is important in how it informs and how it disseminates information. It is even more crucial when a country has just been ravaged by the most brutal atrocities known to man, for its media to be sensitive. To witness your country’s [...]
Abdulai Bayraytay appointed National Publicity and Outreach Coordinator Office of the Government Spokesman in Sierra Leone
He is one of Sierra Leone’s most distinguished academic. He served his country with distinction as Personal Assistant to the Foreign Minister. He has been at the forefront defining Sierra Leone’s foreign policy implementation – bringing a new style of administration and a professional attitude in dealing with complex matters affecting our country’s diplomats around the [...]
Is President Mills becoming intolerant of the media in Ghana?
The decision of the NDC government led by Professor John Evans Attah Mills to boycott Multimedia Group Companies, a news media house consisting of a plethora of TV and radio stations in Ghana has come not as a surprise to many Ghanaians owing to the checkered relationship the erstwhile PNDC which metamorphosed to NDC had [...]
Senegal – The end of the Wade era as Macky Sall becomes the new president
President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal has graciously conceded defeat as results coming in from the country’s presidential election shows a massive lead for his rival Macky Sall. Wade’s move to concede at an early stage seems to have calm fears that he would attempt to rig the elections and forcibly stay in office after 12 years in power. Wade [...]
The enlightenment and the killing of deformed children
Realistically, the Ghanaian enlightenment movement is expanding. Traditional inhibitive values are being critically scrutinized boldly without fear of ethnocentrisms. It is in this sense that deformed children, for centuries killed in some parts of Ghana, for being evil, are getting not only media and civil society attention but of late officialdom. Some of the deformed [...]
Playing cheap politics…Sierra Leone’s opposition SLPP party’s continued fanning of tribal acrimony
I keep asking myself, where is the SLPP that used to thump its chest as being ostentatiously tolerant, graciously endowed with the highest number of intellectuals and a purveyor of good governance? I do not mean that SLPP – the one that prides itself in self conceit, deceit and pneumatically brimming with pretentiousness. I also [...]
IOM/SLeCAD capacitate farmers in Sierra Leone
The Sierra Leone Chamber of Agribusiness Development (SLeCAD) in collaboration with IOM Netherlands has concluded a three weeks training in Business Development, Communication Management and Web Management skills for farmer organizations in the Western Area on Thursday 15th March 2012. The trainings were conducted by three resource persons from the Netherlands under the TRQN (Temporary [...]
Security, political and traditional authorities on the alert as terror group Boko Haram infiltrates Cameroon
YAOUNDE, Ngala Killian Chimtom - (IPS) – Ahmadou Lamine has been forced to close his business selling fuel imported from Nigeria, known locally as “zoa-zoa”, because of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram. Lamine, from Maroua, the capital of Cameroon’s Far North Region, ran out of stock after Nigeria temporarily closed its border with Cameroon’s northern region. The [...]
President Ernest Bai Koroma commissions fourteen newly constructed and well-equipped Agricultural Business Centres in the North of Sierra Leone
Agriculture has been identified by government as a panacea for food self-sufficiency as well as empowering farmers to farm for business. To realize this dream, President Ernest Bai Koroma has commissioned (ABCs) in Tonkolili District by symbolically cutting the tape to the ABC at Rowala two miles off Magburaka town. The President also handed over Agricultural [...]
A father’s fight to save his daughter from genital mutilation in Ghana
ACCRA, Jonathan Migneault and Berlinda Chochoe Nortey (IPS) – When Jack Sabadgou left Ghana for Switzerland 10 years ago, he left his infant daughter behind to be raised by her mother. Now he wants his child back, and he is running out of time in a bid to save her from the banned traditional practice of [...]
