Writing Writing has always been a pleasure. Even as a boy at school I looked forward to the class set aside for writing a story, or whatever our teachers thought would interest us, more than to any other class on the timetable. Then everyone would f...

Commentary Nurturing Internal Party Democracy and Constitutional Rule in the Governing Sierra Leone People's Party: Can David Sengeh's IEMOC Pass the Test? By Owen M.M. KaiCombey, Ireland Introduction Following the chaos that characterised the el...

Press Release Statistics Sierra Leone (Stats SL) wishes to inform the general public that the night of 9th December 2021 was the Census Night, as proclaimed by HE the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone Dr Julius Maada Bio. The main enumerat...

Vice President Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh (first from left in photo) was in Ghana recently. Here are his comments on the visit: Our meetings continued yesterday, with the Ghana Grid Company hosting me and my delegation as part of our cross-learning enga...

By President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone Today (Wednesday December 8), I had very productive discussions with Dr. Taufila Nyamadzabo, the World Bank 's Executive Director for Africa Group 1, about the World Bank's continued support to Sierra L...

We have read with utter dismay and disappointment an opinion piece reviewing the National Investment Board Bill. The review was written by a group of lawyers attached to the GPK Legal Law Firm of 35 Bathurst Street in Freetown. This group, which se...

Commentary My Every Day Heroes in Education By David Moinina Sengeh, Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education Meet Tucce Sarah Kollie, Winner of the PresidentBio Presidential National Best Teacher Award 2021 (photo). Ms Kollie graduated i...

By President Adama Barrow of the Gambia I am thankful for a historic victory for me and our great National People's Party, NPP. Gambians have spoken and decided to deliver us a clear-cut, compelling victory. Thank you for the enormous trust and c...

By President Jullius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone I was delighted to welcome H.E Yang Jiechi to State House. China and Sierra Leone have enjoyed 50 years of mutually beneficial friendship and cooperation. At our meeting today, we committed to contin...

Commentary Burning Questions on Covid-19 Omicron Variant and Africa By Alhaji U. N'jai, Freetown, Sierra Leone The discovery of a novel Covid-19 variant (Omicron) in South Africa with significant mutations in its spike protein raises a lot of con...