Sierra Leone’s President, His Excellency Julius Maada Bio’s flagship program, which is the Free Quality Education has been described as a pro-poor service as it has greatly helped to empower children whose parents are poor and cannot afford to pay their tuition’s fees. Since His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio took over office in April 2018 as head of state, …

By Betty Milton. Before taking over the mantle of leadership in April 2018, President Dr. Julius Maada Bio made a very surprising manifesto promise in the area of media reform and support. In the New Direction manifesto, it is stated, among many other promises, that “the SLPP administration will reform the Fourth Estate through the following; Repeal the seditious libel …

By Rev. S.M. Williams J.P. Adherents of other religions have been inadvertently accusing Christians of worshipping three gods. It is indeed an intriguing issue to the uninitiated.  In this piece I intend to throw light on the issue so that in its end minds of skeptics would have been disabused. The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is nowhere mentioned under …

The management of the Sierra Leone Ports Authority is currently on structural and functional transformation. This transformation has been attributed to so many players, and one of which is the current Acting General Manager, Yankuba Askia Bio. Mr. Bio was appointed in September 2018 as the Deputy General Manager to Dr. Abdulai Fofana, the General Manager, Sierra Leone Ports Authority. …

By Sorie Fofana. When Brig. (Rtd) Julius Maada Bio was elected Head of State and President of Sierra Leone in April 2018, the front runner for the post of Finance Minister was Alhaji Kanja Sesay. JJ Saffa was already tipped for the post of Chief Minister. Barely few hours to the official announcement, word came around that the lot had …

By Rev. S.M. Williams (JP). THE DEATH OF THE Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip will certainly have a ripple effect on the Commonwealth, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (thus passeth away earthly glory). Hardly any national leader of a developed nation has lived such a glorious life. His was a life bereft of degradation, strife and electoral abuse. Why don’t we …

By Sheikh M. Bawoh.                                                                                                 Lately, the northern city of Makeni has come under the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. First, it was the transfer of one of EDSA’s two standby generators to another northern city, Port Loko which sparked up riot in which precious lives were lost. Sadly, not even a meeting of stakeholders prior to the transfer could …