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  • Liberia Liberia Senate Concerns Over Absence of President Vice President From Country

    Senator Armah Jallah (NPP-Gbapolu County) and others have raised serious concerns over the absence from the country of the President and her deputy who are out of the country on foreign travels. President Sirleaf is in Ireland attending the GA summit while the Vice President Joseph Boakai is in Philadelphia the United States of America to meet with the Liberian community. Speaking to ...

  • Liberia Students Debate On Concerns Around Extractive Resources

    The girls of St. Teresa Convent High School in Monrovia have won this year's Inter-high School Debate organized by the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency (LEITI). The competition was held under the theme: "Talking about our Resources". Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Convent won the competition in which nine other schools involved in the LEITI ...

  • 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 ...

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Half Nelson

Half Nelson

I dont know! the young teacher at the heart of Half Nelson screams in absolute agony when faced with a crucial question about how he can positively impact a young life, and in that one line of dialogue lies the central power of Ryan Flecks film. Half Nelson takes one of the ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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