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ACC updates the media and civil society groups in Makeni

Published On Friday, June 29, 2012. Under: Diaspora, Lead Story.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has on Monday 25th June 2012 updated civil society representatives and media practitioners operating in Makeni on its activities in the second quarter of 2012. Addressing them at its Northern Regional Office at Mena Hills in Makeni, ACC’s Regional Manager, Patrick Sandi noted that collaborating with civil society organizations and the media [...]

The Entrapped, an Outstanding African Movie with International Flavor and Actors

Published On Friday, June 29, 2012. Under: Diaspora, Lead Story.

By Jacob Conteh, Cocorioko Editor-in-Chief : One of the most common criticisms against the myriads of African movies that are now a staple for many people around the globe is that they often have shallow, predictable themes with mediocre acting and lack of a coherent, creative storyline. While that criticism may hold true for [...]

Why majority of Sierra Leoneans dislike Maada Bio : He is an unrepentant killer who can’t stop gloating about his crimes

Published On Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Under: Diaspora, Lead Story.

Addressing his supporters in Freetown on Monday after returning from a trip abroad where he suffered the most humiliating shame ever when U.S. Federal authorities foiled his plans to sneak into the U.S illegally through the Canadian border, an angry Maada Bio added another layer to his disgusting personality which has made him Sierra Leone’s [...]

A Failed Strategy

Published On Tuesday, June 26, 2012. Under: Diaspora, Lead Story.

By Pasco Temple : Several attempts have been made in vain, by many people with scrawny minds to infiltrate the core of dedicated and hard – working Government officials, for their own greediness and to sabotage government work. Some of them, unproductive Government employees and disappointed – Government appointees are so desperate to [...]

Maada Bio, SLPP Fraudster and Flagbearer, Returns Home to a So-called ‘Grand Welcome’

Published On Monday, June 25, 2012. Under: Diaspora, Lead Story.

By Sidie Yahya Tunis:Brigadier Retired Julius Maada Bio, flagbearer of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) is expected back home on Monday 25th June 2012 from over a month’s tour of Europe and Canada alone, living behind him a disgruntled PR team to defend his perpetual bungles as well as angered, disappointed and shamed supporters [...]

Analyzing the Criminality of Maada Bio as an Unrepentant Killer

Published On Monday, June 25, 2012. Under: Diaspora, Lead Story.

By Joseph Sherman, Editor-in-Chief, Salone Monitor (www.salonemonitor.net) Maada Bio, Haunted by one of the ghost he murdered. Photo: Courtesy of Sidie Yahya Tunis What motivates a person to commit murder? Berry-Dee and Morris opposing theories (How to Make a Serial Killer, 2008) conclude that it is a matter of nature and nurture. Conversely, [...]

THE OSWALD HANCILES COLUMN : Dr. Cecil Blake: “President Koroma would win (November, 2012) hands down”.

Published On Monday, June 25, 2012. Under: Diaspora, Lead Story.

Cyberspace today – like FACEBOOK, TWITTER, etc.; and hundreds of thousands of cyberspace Groups built around all sort of issues – is alive. And potent! Cyberspace was primarily responsible for nurturing, and propelling, the ‘Arab Spring’ still alight in the Arab countries recent, stimulating a domino effect of toppling monarchical-type presidencies in the Arab world. President Barrack Obama’s phenomenal [...]

President Koroma receives letters of credence from newly accredited ambassadors from Ivory Coast and Czech Republic

Published On Monday, June 25, 2012. Under: Diaspora, Lead Story.

By State House Communications Unit Freetown: Their Excellencies, the Ambassadors designate of La Cote D’Ivoire and the Czech Republic presented their Letters of Credence to President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma at the Credentials Hall, State House, Freetown on Friday 22nd June. In welcoming the Ambassador Designate of La Cote d’Ivoire, Mr. Kapieletien Soro, President Koroma [...]

President Koroma will win with 70% Majority in Parliament” …Ahmaza Bangura

Published On Monday, June 25, 2012. Under: Diaspora, Lead Story.

President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma The Secretary General of the All Peoples Congress (APC) Asia chapter Ahmaza Bangura said they would be joining the electorates back home in November this year and re-elect President Earnest Bai Koroma with seventy percent majority in the house of parliament. “We want to participate fully in the November election [...]

Maada Bio exposed as unripe and unfit for Sierra Leone Presidency

Published On Monday, June 25, 2012. Under: Diaspora, Lead Story.

By Solomon Sesay , Editor-In-Chief of the NEW DAILY NATION : http://thenewdailynation.com/ The international community should not meddle in our nation’s politics. However, they can present us with scenarios to aid us in discerning who the best candidate for our nation’s presidency is. By inviting the candidates to address different gatherings outside Sierra Leone, we can [...]

President Koroma Mourns With the SLPP

Published On Saturday, June 23, 2012. Under: Diaspora, Lead Story.

By: State House Communications Unit Freetown: His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has witnessed the Official and Civic Laying-out ceremony for the late Honourable Momoh Pujeh, Parliamentary Leader SLPP and Minority Party Leader at the State Hall of Parliament Building, Tower Hill. The late Honourable Momoh Pujeh was born on the 8th of March [...]

SLPP banks on President Koroma’s successes to campaign : Nar we begin am

Published On Saturday, June 23, 2012. Under: Diaspora, Lead Story.

By Sidie Yahya Tunis : Cutting of the tape by President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone and Alpha Conde of Guinea during the opening of the Common Border Post No sooner His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, president of the Republic of Sierra Leone and Professor Alpha Conde, president of the Republic of Guinea [...]

Sierra Leone gets massive lift at the UN : Country will serve as one of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly next session

Published On Friday, June 22, 2012. Under: Diaspora, Lead Story.

The Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, Ambassador Shekou M. Touray, will be one of the Vice-Presidents of the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly. Sierra Leone and the other 20 countries who will serve as Vice-President were elected by acclamation and will serve for one year. The other countries are [...]

British School launches Japian Stevens Award

Published On Friday, June 22, 2012. Under: Diaspora, Lead Story.

By Umaru S. Jah : History has a way of changing some of its judgments over time about people and events. Even after one year of Japian Stevens death, the son of Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Germany, Jongopie S. Stevens, there is no reason to believe that he is finally gone. Renowned for his exemplary life [...]

Sierra Leone economy, health care and infrastructure moving in the right direction under President Koroma

Published On Thursday, June 21, 2012. Under: Diaspora, Lead Story.

It is often been said that Faith moved mountains and that theory has proven itself in Sierra Leone. Today,Sierra Leoneans can celebrate with the utmost audacity and with a common sensethat for the first time in history the Country has had a Leader and a Son thatseeks the interest of his people and NOT his [...]

Kolenten Student Wins ABC Secretariat’s Heart

Published On Thursday, June 21, 2012. Under: Diaspora, Lead Story.

A student of the senior section of the Kolenten Secondary School in Kambia, Mohammed H. Conteh has on Tuesday June 12th this year scooped a three year scholarship from the philanthropic bred Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat’s executives after correctly defining attitude and behaviour. Mohammed H. Conteh who the Secretariat, which was in [...]

Maada Bio Is Getting Madder

Published On Thursday, June 21, 2012. Under: Diaspora, Lead Story.

By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) : There are certain Sierra Leonean politicians who are so zombie-like that even a dim-witted journalist could predict what would be contained in their next speeches. One such politician is the presidential candidate of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) who has established, for himself, the unenviable record of always [...]

Garbage and Malaria, two bedfellows? The issue of Waste Management in Sierra Leone

Published On Thursday, June 21, 2012. Under: Diaspora, Lead Story.

Alinah O. Bockarie : “If proper measures are not taken, the Sierra Leonean population would dwindle”. “Hah! Is this some kind of joke or what? What makes you say such a thing”? As I listen to the dialogue between two adult men playing “draf” [a local board game] under a mango tree in Kissy [...]