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  • Investigate Alleged Rebel Arms Supplier - Former Associate of Charles Taylor Rebels Identified in Freetown

    Nairobi - The Sierra Leone authorities should open a criminal investigation of a suspected arms supplier for his alleged involvement in international crimes during Sierra Leone's civil war. This would be Sierra Leone's first purely domestic prosecution in relation to war crimes or crimes against humanity committed during its 11-year armed conflict, which ended in 2002. Ibrahim Bah, ...

  • Liberia LBS Director Bows to Pressure

    The Director General of the Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) Darryl Ambrose Nmah has finally bowed to the House of Representatives' pressure by instructing a Ghanaian national to resign. His decision follows a unanimous resolution passed by the House of Representatives on Thursday, June 13, 2013, ordering him (Ambrose Nmah) to advertise the Media and Marketing Manager Position being ...

  • Plans to detain President Koroma

    This was disclosed by the president of the organization, Mary Hannah Jaiah who is the Deputy Mayor of the Freetown City Council. She made the revelation at a jam-packed meeting recently at the Evangelical Primary School at Quarry in ...

  • Massive Zircon theft in Moyamba… WAZ implicated

    Monday June 17, a boat loaded with illicitly mined Zircon sand from Tisana and Mobureh in Moyamba District reportedly landed at the Tombo wharf, escorted by a Mines Warden called Mr. Feika, the Section Chief of Tasso, Kain Mamah who resides in Tisana and Mr. Issa Mansaray, all of whom are said to have been recently released from the Moyamba police where they are reported to have spent two days ...

  • British Airways Expands Sierra Leone Services

    He noted that British Airways has substantially increased its African network adding three destinations and 21 services since acquiring bmi just over a year ...

Movie Review

A Generation (Pokolenie) [DVD]

A Generation (Pokolenie) [DVD]

A Generation (Pokolenie) was Andrzej Wajda's directorial debut, the first of an unintended trilogy of films made in the late 1950s (including 1957's Kanal and 1958's Ashes and Diamonds) about the Polish resistance against the German occupiers during World War II ... ...

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  • Let The ‘Public Order Act’ Stay Until…

    By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) : Since that day, about a fortnight ago, when the Special Executive Assistant (SEA) to President Ernest Bai Koroma, Dr Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, made overt threats, both on her Face Book page and in her newspaper--the Awareness Times--that the Public Order Act of 1965 would soon be invoked against any journalist who engaged in falsehood and alarmist reportage; a ...

  • Essential Hallmarks of a Good Leader

    Titus Boye-Thompson, Strategic Media and Development Communications Unit : Quite a lot has been written about strong leadership and the experiences of those who have made it to the very top of their chosen profession have had several essential qualities that they share. These qualities of leadership are boundless in time, they have served the best leaders well and in them you are prone to ...

  • UNITED FAMILY ORGANIZATION stages annual fundraising picnic July 5

    en plein air ), ideally taking place in a beautiful landscape such as a park, beside a lake or with an interesting view and possibly at a public event such as before an open air theatre performance, and usually in summer. Descriptions of picnics show that the idea of a meal that was jointly contributed and was enjoyed out-of-doors were essential to a picnic from the early 19th ...

  • Why we should sustain the gains

    We all, as admirers of President Koroma have a duty to work in his interest and ensure, the legacies he is working on, are sustained and protected when he shall have left office.Taking a look at how he worked tremendously to ensure his reelection, it is but acceptable to state that any effort aimed at undermining his gains should be condemned at once. From his success in sustaining the ...

  • Vacancy at The Society for Knowledge Management-Sierra Leone

    Sierra Leonean appointed to join UNIDO Regional Team in Ethiopia Former Head of UNIDO operations in Sierra Leone, Dr. Stephen Bainous Kargbo (in photo), has started work at the UNIDO Regional Office in Ethiopia following a competitive and rigorous selection process. The office in Ethiopia headed by a UNIDO Representative and Regional Director covers the four countries of Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda ...

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