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  • Judge gives 72hrs for lawyer’s papers as Afri radio goes to Appeal Court

    Appeal Court Judge, Justice E.B. Edwards on Friday ordered the lawyers representing African Media Sierra Leone Ltd and the Independent Media Commission (IMC) to submit their written arguments and all relevant documents relating to the cancellation of Afri Radio’s license, within seventy-two hours. Counsel Yada Williams and Osman Jalloh representing the appellant (African Media Sierra ...

  • AIG launched Operation Watch your Neighbour

    The Sierra Leone Police (SLP) Kenema division has on Tuesday 14th May 2013 launched a new operation titled "watch your neighbor" in the regional headquarter town of Kenema and its environs. The Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) east Sorie B. Kargbo told the press before commencing the raid that the exercise is going to be a continuous food for the police in the region. He ...

  • IMC to award Journalists on 24th May

    The Independent Media Commission (IMC) will on Friday 24th May, 2013 at the Bank Complex in Freetown, award Journalists who submitted their work on various fields of reporting. The 7th National Media Awards (NMA), according to the organisers, there will be spectacular events which will showcase journalists talents of what they have submitted to the Commission. Individual Winners will receive ...

  • Sierra Leonean arrested over fake passport in Bangkok

    A Sierra Leonean Kelvin Sesay is among five Africans who were arrested in Bangkok over the use of fake passports. According to press reports from The Post, "The five men were apprehended immediately after they arrived in the resort town of Prachuap Khiri Khan province in a van from Bangkok. They were identified as Angelr Ibekwa, 29, a Nigerian; Seyyid Zena Abdulai, 33, from Ghana; Kelvin ...

  • GTBank Ltd Opens Wellington Branch

    Guaranty Trust Bank (SL) Limited, a leading bank in Sierra Leone is set to open its twelfth branch on Monday May 20, 2013. Housed in the Old ATC Compound at the Wellington Industrial Estate in the East-end of Freetown, this new branch will serve its numerous customers in the area and extend its brand of excellent banking services to all and sundry in Sierra Leone. In the last two years, the ...

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The Ides of March

The Ides of March

Ryan Goslings best quality may very well be his ability to suggest depth behind a seemingly implacable faade. The more rigid his face is, the more we search it out for signs of what is going on behind those eyes, whether he be playing a slick womanizer confronted for the first time ... ...

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  • Vitafoam to start mattress production soon

    The new Vitafoam mattress at Hastings will start production soon. According to the Acting Country Manager of Vitafoam Odunfeyitimi Olaoluwa,the factory which will be producing about 1000 mattresses a day will also serve the Mano River Union sub-region with 600,000 mattresses a year. He made this disclosure while speaking with the Minister of Trade and Industry Usu Boie Kamara who was on a ...

  • Two African First Ladies join fight against teenage pregnancy

    As a way of reducing teenage pregnancy and early marriage in Sierra Leone, the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dame Dr Patience Goodluck Jonathan has joined the First Lady of Sierra Leone Sia Nyama Koroma to reduce teenage pregnancy and early marriage in Sierra Leone. Supported by UNFPA, the Office of the First Lady, last week, ended a two-day high level conference on the ...

  • “ We are grateful for EFSL” Community stakeholders

    Residents and community stakeholders in the Gombaun [Malen] Village in the Pujehun District Southern Sierra Leone have heaped praises on Evangelical Fellowship of Sierra Leone [EFSL] for providing them with educational facilities worth Two Hundred and Fifty Million Leones [Le: 250,000,000] during a handing over ceremony that attracted eminent personalities. The educational facilities among ...

  • Prosecutors seek 16 years for man on trial for holding Berlusconi aide

    Silvio Berlusconi 's accountant and wife in 2012. The prosecutors also asked the court in Milan for prison terms of eight to 10 years each for Leone's three accomplices, all charged with holding Giuseppe Spinelli, 71, and his wife Anna hostage in their home for 11 hours and forcing them to call Berlusconi to try to get 35 million euros (about $46 million) in ransom last October, ANSA ...

  • Liberia Bishop Francis Dies

    Archbishop Michael Kpakala Francis, the outspoken cleric who became the conscience of the society during the tyranical regime of late President Samuel Doe and the tumultous years of the civil war, died at his 8th Street residence yesterday following a protracted illness, aged 77. The shocking news of Bishop Francis' death, who was regarded as indifatigable fighter for peace and justice in ...

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