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Professor Parrot That Poro Invasion at Mobureh
Parrot has gathered that some desperate illicit miners masquerading as poro men recently attacked an innocent Indian Investor at Mobureh and vandalised his house after raining unprintable invectives on him. Well, Parrot knows very well those illegal sand miners who perpetrated the dastardly act. Indeed the great and inquisitive parrot is aware that the attack was masterminded by a certain SLPP ...
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Sierra Leone Journalists Threatened With Sanitisation of Media Landscape
The International Press Institute (IPI) expressed serious concern today over the future of press freedom in Sierra Leone following inflammatory statements made by Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, special executive assistant to President Ernest Koroma. IPI urges political leaders in Sierra Leone to distance themselves from the threatening remarks made by Blyden, and to commit to protecting press freedom ...
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Liberia Rep. Forh Expulsion Eminent - As CDC Probe Team Recommends
Reports The Informer gathered over the weekend suggest that Congress For Democratic Change (CDC) under-fire lawmaker Edward Forh might be expelled from the party for alleged corruption. A committee established by the party months ago to probe the Montserrado County District #16 Representative's request of chopping the country's development money reported Friday calling for the ...
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Liberia U.S. Policy Shift John Kerry Vs. Hillary Clinton - a Liberia Tale of the Tape
In her four years as U.S. Secretary of State, Hilary Rodham Clinton made two key visits to Liberia - the first during a seven-nation tour of Africa in 2009 and another to attend the second inauguration of her long-time friend, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in January 2012. Sirleaf, in return met Clinton almost a dozen times during her first term, on separate visits to Washington, climaxing with a final ...
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Liberia Appreciating Our Countrys Recognition
Liberia's presence more among the comity nations once more continues to be manifested in the numerous recognitions the world-over. Since the inception of the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Administration in 2006, following the 2005 general and Presidential elections, Liberia's relations with the nations of the world has tremendously continued to improve with positive impacts. Such ...
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Liberia Firestone Graduates Over 50 Students in Skills Training
Firestone Liberia Accelerated Learning and Skills Training Program has graduated 54 students in various skills. The graduation ceremony took place on Friday, June 7, 2013, at the Harbel Field House in Margibi County. Serving as Guest Speaker was Firestone Liberia's Controller, Mr. Patrick Rodrigo. He commended the students for their decisions to venture into skills training saying, ...
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Hundreds join Toms crew in aid of Africa
He will be among hundreds s lining up to raise £2,000. Together they aim to cover 155 miles which is equal to the width of the African ...
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Parliament Approves Three Nominees
Parliament on Friday, June 14, approved three presidential nominees, Leonard Balogun Koroma as Minister of Transport and Aviation, Sahr Kpulun as Board Member of the Sierra Leone Civil Aviation Authority (SLCAA) and Lahai Momoh Farma as Board Member of ...
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Ahead of Bye-election – NEC Chair Gives Stern Warning
In preparation for the Constituency 62 parliamentary bye-election in Tonkolili District scheduled for June 29, 2013, the Chairperson of the National Electoral Commission (NEC) Dr. Christiana Thorpe, has issued a stern warning to the Mile 91 police to provide maximum security for especially the independent candidate, John Gbla and his supporters to ensure that the election goes on ...
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Headman Negotiates Le 300M for Hastings
The Headman of Hastings revealed that he has succeeded in negotiating a Le300 million soft loan for the women of Hastings; the loan he said will be provided by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Usman Boie ...
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Youth unemployment in Africa a ticking time bomb or an opportunity
Senegalese opposition politicians denounced the country's high unemployment rate to mobilize youth against former President Abdoulaye Wade in the country's 2012 presidential election. Joblessness was one of the main issues that drove the country's many young unemployed into the voting stations to press for a change of government. The lesson of Senegal's election violence is ...
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African Union calls for more investment to promote jobs in Africa
Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, the first woman to head the African Union Commission, urged African Member States and international partners to invest more in order to promote job creation in the ...
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St. Joseph’s Convent Wins ACC Symposium On Corruption
St. Joseph's Convent Secondary School, Makeni emerged as winner of a symposium organized by the Northern Regional Office of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for Integrity Clubs in Makeni in observance of this year's Day of the African Child -June ...
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Minister Receives Saudi University Professor
Thursday June 13, 2013 – The Minister of Social Welfare Gender and Children's Affairs, Mr. Moi Jui Kai Kai received Professor Dr Alie Ibrahim Azahraani of the Islamic University of Medina, Saudi Arabia in his New England office in Freetown. Mr. Kai Kai welcomed the Dr Alie and promised to give his fullest support to the university's activities in Sierra Leone whenever the need ...
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African youths demand involvement in governance
Ask members of the African political elite, civil society activists or anyone else about the role of youths in national development and you will hear a lot of profound, if trite, catchphrases, such as "The youths are the future; they are the leaders of tomorrow." African leaders even declared 2009-18 the African Youth Decade. Before that, in 2006, they adopted the African Youth ...
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Agriculture Celebrates National Tree Planting Day In Kenema
In his welcome address the District Forestry Officer, Kenema district, welcomed all for coming, adding that he was very happy for the turnout and that even though people were not adequately informed and called on, all were able to fully participate as they were cerebrating national tree planting ...
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Road to Brazil Tunisia seal Knockout spot ahead of Leone Stars
The Cartage Eagles of Tunisia (in photo) secured their place in the knockout stage on the road to Brazil when they played 1-1 draw at the Estadio de Malabo on Sunday against host Equatorial ...
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Be Ecocitizens Minister Tells Ivorians
Little wonder, then, that on World Ocean Day 8 June Environment Minister Remi Allah-Kouadio appealed for residents to shed the littering habit and to become ecocitizens in this nation of some 22 million ...
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Random Musing – A Strange Contradiction
Since the last election, there has been a relentless criticism of the seemingly uncompromising, neutral or opposition media. This is not only bad manners - but also bad politics. Especially when the government has for example, failed to acknowledge the fact that it continues to heavily influence the television news agenda and that ninety five percent of the industry has lost its conscience and ...
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Sierra Leone’s media under attack A Strange Contradiction
Already, one can almost hear the cackle of satisfaction from beyond the watery grave, as a succession of meddling, bureaucratic grave voices assures the President, that not clamping down on the activities of a segment of the press, with wholesale failure to reflect the views of government, would guarantee a sequence of calamities. In a bid to ensure an unbalanced promotion of partisan political ...
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Sierra Leone Journalists threatened with “sanitisation” of media landscape
The International Press Institute (IPI) expressed serious concern today over the future of press freedom in Sierra Leone, following inflammatory statements made by Sylvia Olayinka Blyden (Photo: Left of former Nigerian President Obasanjo), special executive assistant to President Ernest Koroma. IPI urges political leaders in Sierra Leone to distance themselves from the threatening remarks made ...
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Sierra Leone has a challenge on its hands
Sierra Leone is relatively unknown on the international stage, it is a tiny country of just 6 million people, perched on the edge of West Africa with its coastline gazing out into the Atlantic, a body of ocean that has played as important a part in the country’s history as the natural resources that have brought the state such infamy.
Sierra Leone, unfortunately, is known abroad, for those that have heard of the country, as a war-torn little state where social cohesion and everything that goes with it has collapsed entirely. World headlines in the 1990s were filled, appropriately, with stories of the civil war raging in the country at a time when the Revolutionary United Front was trying to overthrow the military dictatorship headed by Joseph Momoh. Read more
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