𝐁𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐡. The main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party Members of Parliament yesterday called for the setting up of an independent committee to investigate the deaths of the August 10 violent insurrection in parts of Freetown, Western Rural, Makeni, and Kamakwe. Speaking in Committee Room 1 in the House of Parliament yesterday, the Opposition Leader, Honourable Chernor Maju …

On behalf of the Sierra Leone People’s Party National Young Generation Council, I, the National Young Generation Leader, greet all patriotic and responsible Sierra Leonean youth in UNITY, FREEDOM and JUSTICE I will start by sympathizing with the bereaved families especially the Sierra Leone Police personnel who died in active duty in the hands of irate youths who were influenced …

Freetown, 15 August 2022 Your Excellency my dear brother President Julius Maada Bio, As Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State & Government, I am delighted to visit your beautiful country, Sierra Leone. Mr President, this is also my first visit to your historic City, Freetown and to Sierra Leone. My dear brother, let me also thank you …

One of the most organised and vibrant chapters of the SLPP, the Washington DC Metro Chapter, headed by the dynamic Mrs Fatmata Dausy Wurie on Sunday, July 24, 2022 organised a welcome dinner party in honour of HE Ambassador Alhaji Brima Elvis Koroma (Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Senegal) who is currently on a private visit to the United States of …

Following the establishment of the 21-man APC Interim leadership committee, some young, exuberant and inexperienced politicians have emerged to assume leadership roles in the party. Some of them are bent on institutionalizing thuggery and violence in the body politic of the country. They forget to realise that the days of politics of gangsterism have been relegated to the dustbin of …

The National Elections Watch (NEW) is now being operated by only one woman, according to some members of the coalition. They have called on the feckless leadership of the coalition to be transparent and accountable in the use of donor funds received for its activities. Following the coalition’s outburst in its politically- motivated statement of 2nd June, 2022, some prominent …

His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has addressed lawmakers from across Africa, meeting as a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, CPA, and used the occasion to congratulate Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom on her Platinum Jubilee. “I must add that the strengths of our democracies in the Commonwealth have endured, thanks to the role of Parliaments. You debate, modify, …

𝑩𝒚 𝑺𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒂 On 31st May 2022, Statistics Sierra Leone published the provisional results of the December 2021 Mid-Term Population and Housing Census with Kenema topping the list followed by Bo. The country’s population has risen to 7,541,641 a little over 500,000 since the last Population and Housing Census was conducted in 2015. It has to be said that even …

His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has pledged US$500,000 to the Extraordinary Humanitarian Summit and Pledging Conference at the opening session of the 16th Extraordinary Conference of the African Union Summit. The summit deliberated efforts by African leaders to address the current humanitarian challenges in the continent, that were now being exacerbated by the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 …

𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚. “𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓”, Niccolo Machiavelli. Before the May 25, 1997 military coup, the SLPP had lost the power to influence public opinion. Several media houses had been set up by opposition supporters to undermine the SLPP government of Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. The few civil society organizations …