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Koroma appoints more ministers

President Ernest Bai Koroma has over the weekend appointed more ministers. The new crop of ministers seem to indicate that the president has heard the (...)

by Gibril Koroma | November 2007 | 2516 views

Emmerson Amidu Bockarie: A Short Biography

By Amadu Massally, Mohamed Kosia and Sarah Gulama. Little did Emmerson Amidu Bockarie Sr. and Nada Taiwo Close know when Emmerson Amidu Bockarie Jr. was (...)

| November 2007 | 25377 views

Police officers arrested for stealing

By Sorie Sudan Sesay, Freetown. Despite very positive strides so far made by the President Ernest Bai Koroma-led government, some ill-motivated (...)

| October 2007 | 634 views

Sierra Leone Defense Minister visits the US

By Komkanda Bangura. Minister of Defense Alfred Palo Conteh departed from the United States to London on Tuesday October 23, 2007, after a brief visit (...)

| October 2007 | 1698 views

AA Principal debunks rumour

Mr. Albert Kawa,principal of one of Sierra Leone’s oldest secondary schools, the Albert Academy, has said contrary to recent newspaper stories, the school (...)

by Gibril Koroma | October 2007 | 1146 views

Grammar School students benefit from UNDP support

In a handing-over ceremony which took place today, Monday 29 October, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) donated a selection of high quality (...)

| October 2007 | 1110 views

Sierra Leonean cheats death in London

By Abu B. Shaw, London. A Sierra Leonean football star has defied all the odds to bounce back from the ‘dead’ after surviving a horrific life threatening atta

| October 2007 | 2565 views

Exclusive: Engineer Garber talks about the ABGNM

Melbourne Garber was born in England, of Sierra Leonean parentage. He spent his entire childhood in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Garber holds a B.Sc (Hons) and (...)

| October 2007 | 1582 views