University crisis: TEC acts tough!
The chairman of the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC), Professor A.M. Alghali has advised the government to dissolve the Sierra Leone University Court as an immediate first step to put the university administration back on track, following weeks of leadership crisis at the University of Sierra Leone (USL). In a letter, dated 25 January, 2024, the…...
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We put Sierra Leone first – says RCB’s DMD
By Amara Thoronka Mr. Emmanuel Borbor, the Deputy Managing Director (DMD) of Rokel Commercial Bank (RCB) said the bank puts Sierra Leone at the top of its operations and activities, including its corporate social responsibility. The bank’s DMD was speaking at the 2nd RCB Meet & Greet with media practitioners at D’Bim D’Bam […]
What is success in life?
By Joe Tokpoima Success per se is indefinable. It means many things to many people. It can be an elusive concept. Some posit that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent. You may counter that opinion by positioning yourself as humble, altruistic and enterprising. That is good for you. What…...
House Speaker apologizes to Sierra Leoneans
By Alusine Fullah Recently, there have been several reports bordering on some anomalies in the Parliament of Sierra Leone as the House Clerk Paran Tarawalie has been on the spotlight for certain reported ‘non-procedural’ recruitment and mass sacking in the country’s lawmaking body. Hon. Paran Tarawalie is said to be in conflict of interest…...
He ordered me to join them or else he would kill me -Witness testifies
By Alusine Fullah Corporal Alfred Methodist Kargbo, the 7th prosecution witness in an ongoing coup/treason court martial has testified in court on 25th January, 2024, that it was Captain Senesie who led in strange people towards the armoury. According to the witness, Captain Senesie was the Commanding Officer at the time and also…...
Youth gets 3 years imprisonment for larceny
By Mohamed Mansaray in Kenema Twenty-year-old David Yambasu, an unemployed youth at Samai Town Two Section in Kenema, has on January 23rd,2024, been jailed for three years by Magistrate Mustapha Briama-Jah of Magistrate Court No.2 in Kenema for larceny, contrary to Section 2 of the Larceny Act of 1916. The particulars of offence…...
Larceny: Court sends electrician to jail for 2 years
By Mohamed Mansaray in Kenema Magistrate Sheka Kamara of Magistrate Court No.1 in Kenema has on January 23rd, 2024, sentenced one Vandy Konneh of No.17 Moriba Street, Torkpombu 2 Section in Kenema to two years imprisonment for larceny, contrary to Section 2 of the Larceny Act of 1916. According to prosecution, the Accused…...
How Wrong Attitudes Expose Man to Zoonotic Spillover in Sierra Leone
By Dadson A. Musa Zoonotic diseases are those spread from animals to humans. These diseases are spread through contact, poor or inadequate cooking, and through the air. Our activities as human beings have led to us encroaching on the natural habitat of animals. And that has had its consequences leading to us contracting…...
Living in a polygamous home in Warima
By Osman Sankoh (Mallam O.) In the heart of Sierra Leone’s most popular village of Warima in upper Koya Chiefdom, Port Loko District, eleven miles from Masiaka town (formerly called Mile 47) and 80 miles to Mile 91, Osman Sankoh’s life unfolded in the polygamous household of his father, Pa Alimamy Wusu Sankoh. […]