By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah When NGC officials confirmed Kandeh Yumkellah as their party’s presidential candidate in late 2017, little did they realize that they had plunged their party into a deep kettle of a mess. In the course of the confirmation, NGC officials noted that Yumkellah had renounced his foreign citizenship status in November …
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By: Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Ernest Bai Koroma and his APC are now fully convinced that they will not win the upcoming elections in a free and fair contest. APC presidential candidate Samura Kamara is extremely unpopular and has failed to electrify the APC base. The divisive and anti-democratic actions of the Koroma regime over …
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The case of the revered Sierra Leonean academic, Professor Ibrahim Abdullah continues to attract serious international concerns. The latest have come from an international conference of African academics that recently met in Lilongwe, Malawi under the auspices of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) to discuss the state of …
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah The matter between Fourah Bay College and Prof. Ibrahim Abdullah is still on the desk of Ernest Bai Koroma, the president of Sierra Leone and the chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone. For several months now, Prof. Abdullah’s request for the intervention of the president to resolve the matter …
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Fourah Bay College (FBC), a constituent college of the University of Sierra Leone, has reached the breaking point. Yet, the college’s latest predicaments have nothing to do with the usual issues of students’ welfare or unaffordable tuition fees. This time, the stakes are far higher and directly relate to integrity …
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State House sources have reported that the newly appointed Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) of the United Nations Mission on Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Ismail Ould Cheik Ahmed arrived in Sierra Leone today to meet with President Ernest Bai Koroma on the situation in the country. “This is no time to be complacent …
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By: Chernoh Alpha M. Bah December 24, 2014 Today is Christmas Eve and I am still in Guinea. I arrived in Conakry by road from Freetown on Friday night and have been here for nearly a week now, trying to find out what is happening here with the Ebola outbreak. I have not heard a …
A radio journalist, Theophilus Sahr Gbenda of Culture Radio FM 104.5 has reportedly been detained at the Criminal Investigations Department headquarters in Freetown today. There is no official reason for his arrest but reports indicate that it is in connection with a report he posted on social media via whattsapp regarding an Ebola story involving …
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EBOLA UPDATE PLEASE FIND BELOW THE TRANSCRIPT OF PRESIDENT ERNEST BAI KOROMA’S SPEECH ANNOUNCING RESTRICTIONS ON MOVEMENT BETWEEN DISTRICTS DURING CHRISTMAS PERIOD AND OTHER DRACONIAN MEASURES!! Fellow Sierra Leoneans, since our country registered it first case of Ebola on the 25th of May 2014, my government has been working tirelessly with its international partners to …
