President Ernest Koroma accelerates agricultural development projects in Kailahun and Kono
By State House Press Corps : President Ernest Bai Koroma has handed over Agricultural Development Assets (ADAs) to the tune of Le.40 Billion to the Kono and Kailahun District Councils respectively. On Thursday 3rd May, President Koroma handed over Le.19 Billion worth of ADAs to the Kono District Council at a colourful ceremony [...]
Massive preparations underway for the Consecration and enthronement of Pastor Emmanuel B. Kuyateh as Bishop.
May 5, 2012 No Comment
The Grace Christian fellowship Ministries family and its covenant partners are carrying out massive preparation for the conseretion of their pastor and general overseer, the Rev. Emmanuel B. Kuyateh Sr, his preferment as Bishop was made recently through the executive council of the Grace Christian Fellowship family, together with the council of Bishops of the [...]
Continue reading …Ambassador Andrew Bangali addresses Independence Anniversay celebrations in Ethiopia
April 30, 2012 No Comment
Last year on this same date, we celebrated fifty years of Independence and that Golden Jubilee was marked by a number of activities organized by the staff of the Embassy and the Sierra Leonean Community in Ethiopia at which the members of the International Community and friends of Sierra Leone fully participated and for which [...]
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By Lansana Gberie : I have been asked by many people about my views on the conviction, on 26 April, of Charles Taylor, Liberia’s former president, for aiding and abetting Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF). He is the first head of state – after Admiral Doenitz, who very briefly led Germany after Hitler committed [...]
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As promised our readers, we bring you the pictorial highlights of the massive 51st Independence Anniversary Celebrations Dance in New Jersey staged by the Sierra Leone Community in New Jersey ( SLCNJ ) on Saturday April 21, 2012. The dance was held at the Somerset-Bridgewater Hotel on 110 Davidson Avenue in Somerset . It was jammed [...]
Continue reading …Statement by UN Permanent Representative H.E. Ambassador Shekou Toure at the USLO Independence Dance in New York
April 30, 2012 No Comment
Sierra Leone’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, His Excellency Ambassador Shekou Touray , was the keynote speaker at the 51st Independence Anniversary celebrations dance held by the Union of Sierra Leone Organizations ( USLO ) of New York at the Afrika House in New York last Saturday. Here is the statement delivered by the [...]
Continue reading …PICTORIAL : At Newark flag-raising, Sierra Leone UN diplomat commends President Koroma for empowering women in sierra Leone
April 30, 2012 No Comment
The President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, has been highly commended for empowering women and enhancing their welfare in Sierra Leone. The commendation for President Koroma came from the Minister Plenipotentiary at the Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone to the United Nations , Hon. Leeroy Wilfred Kabs-Kanu, who delivered the keynote address at the raising of the [...]
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7:12 am EST: Former Liberian rebel leader and Head of State, Charles Taylor, has been found guilty of all 11 counts of aiding and abetting war crimes by rebels who turned Sierra Leone into a living hell for 10 years. “The chamber finds beyond reasonable doubt that the accused is criminally responsible… for aiding and [...]
Continue reading …Bio’s Inability to Enter the US Dampens SLPP NA Independence Week Celebrations
April 24, 2012 3 Comments
By Solomon Sesay : The Satanic Lasmany People’s Party North America Branch is made up of a large number of unpatriotic Sierra Leoneans. Since the All People’s Congress became the ruling party in 2007, they have artfully found ways to shun events in celebration of Sierra Leone’s Independence. In their minds, the exultation of Sierra [...]
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By Andrew M. Mwenda How the West covers Africa and how we, African elites, need to expose these stereotypes I argued last week that there is a double standard among institutions – both public and private – in the western world when dealing with an African country like Rwanda or a European country like [...]
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