[Concord]The Bonya and Sei Land Owning Families in the Lower Bambara Chiefdom, Kenema district, have forwarded a protest letter to President Ernest Bai Koroma and the Minister of Mineral Resources, Minkailu Mansaray, over the operations of Tongoma Holdings Limited, formally Koidu Holdings. The land owning families accuse the company of grabbing their lands without compensation, adding that if appropriate...
[Concord]One of the commissioners at the Monument and Relics Commission on Friday 18 April 2014 stated that it would be worthwhile for culture to be part of the school curriculum....
[Concord]Ambassador Alie Bangura and his team of aggrieved supporters are due at the Supreme Court today to commence their petition against the national delegates' convention of the Sierra Leones Peoples Party, SLPP, in 2013....
[Concord]The Land and Property Division of the Sierra Leone High Court has final issued an order in favour of the plaintiff/applicant in respect of a writ of possession and writ of assistance for recovery of possession of all piece and parcel of land situate off Main Motor Road, Kondoloh-Rokel village, in the Western area of the Republic of Sierra Leone....
[Concord]President Ernest Bai Koroma yesterday paid glowing tribute to the security services for their participation in peacekeeping operations in Somalia, Darfur, Sudan, and other parts of the world....
The new All People’s Congress ( APC ) New Jersey Chapter was inaugurated in a colorful and exciting ceremony staged at the East Somerset Firehouse in Frankiln Township, Somerset, New Jersey last Saturday April 18, 2014. APC stalwarts, supporters , well-wishers and other distinguished Sierra Leoneans resident in the U.S. traveled from all parts of […]...
Dear Colleagues, The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura, will attend the noon briefing on Thursday, 24 April to discuss the new UN report on conflict-related sexual violence. The SRSG’s briefing will provide an opportunity to get information on the report ahead of the Security Council open debate […]...
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[Sierra Leone Government]THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT IT HAS PLEASED HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT DR ERNEST BAI KOROMA TO ANNOUNCE THE FOLLOWING APPOINTMENTS, SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF PARLIAMENT:...
[FrontPageAfrica]Cape Town, South Africa -A former journalist who was arrested in Liberia during the regime of former President Charles Taylor and charged with espionage, says he believes the former Liberian leader has not told the whole truth about some of the encounters he had before the Liberian civil war....
[Sierra Leone Government]Since the last Security Sector Review in 2005, the security services have experienced tremendous transformation that has increased their capacity to secure the lives, property and achievements of the people of Sierra Leone....
[Daily News]SIX players and one chaperone from Sierra Leone arrived in Dar es Salaam yesterday morning ready for a five-day exclusive Airtel Rising Stars international soccer clinic to be held at Azam Complex from Wednesday....
[This Day]Between 6-12April,2014,I was in Freetown, the Sierra Leonean Capital as one of the delegates and participants from the West African Sub region attending the West African Road Safety Organisation( WARSO) Executive and technical committee meeting. It was my first meeting as a participant at WARSO.It was also my very first trip to any Country in West Africa and my third trip to an African Country,...
[Sierra Leone Government]THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT FOLLOWING A MEETING HELD AT STATE HOUSE BETWEEN HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, RELEVANT SECTORAL MINISTERS AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF THE NATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY AND INSURANCE TRUST (NASSIT) HIS EXCELLENCY HAS DECIDED TO EFFECT CHANGES IN THE TOP MANAGEMENT OF THE TRUST....
By Rev. Leeroy Wilfred Kabs-KanuSome of you live in discouragement because you think that your time to be blessed by God has passed. But God is never late. Do not throw up your hands in despair and give up now because you are well advanced in years and you think that something you have trusted […]...
By KABS KANU : David Moyes has been sacked at last at Manchester United. No true Manchester United fan will miss him.I did not know how incompetent David Moyes was until last Saturday when he picked yet another different line-up, something he has done throughout the season. How did he possibly hope for the players […]...
CULLED FROM AWARENESS TIMES Sierra Leone Politics: As they allegedly plotted that President Koroma ‘will no longer work for Sierra Leone’ & “will not rule any more”: Mutineers marked APC Ministers for death By Michael T. Kamara Apr 17, 2014, 17:18 Gerald J. Soyie, Lead Prosecutor in the ongoing Mutiny trials at the […]...
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April 17, 2014 Joint statement by UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Hawa Bangura, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, and UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Leila Zerrougui. MRS. ZAINAB BANGURA We are extremely concerned […]...