The other day I received an email from a lady one would naturally consider as a stranger, because I have never met or spoken with her before the arrival of her email. I pray, you do not ask how she got my email address because that’s another story. Suffice to say, she got it and[...]

The last time I checked, there was talk about the review of the Local Government Act 2004; a thinking that is very apt given the many unanswered questions that keep propping up times without number. I think as a nation, our concern should not only be for us to fill the 124 seats in Parliament,[...]

Unless and until political parties adopt approaches that reflect the tenets of democracy, including justice, inclusiveness and fair play, the people’s representatives in both parliament and councils may not be the right and capable persons for those positions. It is like short listing the incompetent people for an interview. At the end of the day[...]

Whether the statement of Susan Rice, President of the Security Council for the month of April on Sierra Leone is a call or a warning to the government of Sierra Leone is not the focus of this piece. What this piece is central about is the specific call directed at the Independent Media Commission (IMC)[...]

Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone I first met Professor Ernest Haynes Wright (popularly known by his pet name Mofi Wright) in October 1970, when I came to enrol in the Faculty of Pure & Applied Sciences at Fourah Bay College; he was then both Dean of that Faculty[...]

I arrived in Freetown with no accommodation in the evening but the Governor, (Sir Hubert Craddock Stevenson-1888-1971; served as governor from 1941 to 1947) – a very kind and intelligent man-put me up a couple of nights until I’d got a couple of boys and a cook, and then I moved into my dingy little[...]

Why is it that people will hardly ever be happy with the manner in which politicians exercise power in the management of a country’s economic and social recourses for development? Just look at all the disasters caused all over the place as country after country rises against their leaders who by all indications want to[...]

We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible. We have done so much with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing. This can aptly be said of the Chief Commissioner of the National Electoral Commission, Madam Christiana Thorpe. This Lady has distinguished herself so well that she is[...]

Greetings to you all, I pray you’ve all had a wonderful if cashless Easter holiday. I ought to have written last week about the “Holy Week” just past: but, I had to give way to advertisements which of course is the life-line of any newspaper. I don’t know how many Christians today know the meaning[...]

They say if people cross the river in groups, the crocodile will not eat them. So it looks like if we all stand together as a nation, we shall succeed in the things we do for Mama Salone. My wonder most times is how many Sierra Leoneans care to know the issues involved in governance[...]