The pictures in the press of President Koroma and Mr Maada Bio embracing each other was to be quite frank, a beautiful sight. At the end of the day the meeting and the embrace was a triumph for Sierra Leone and demonstrates that our dear nation has truly come of age. It’s a validation that[...]

There is no gainsaying that the level of lawlessness and indiscipline in this country has risen to epic proportions. When we started complaining about the lawlessness of the okada riders, to the extent that one had the audacity to disregard the security cordon and hit the official car carrying the President and the UN Secretary[...]

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London Listed Russian oil giant LUKOIL will today open its office in Sierra Leone, Pavel Bogomolov told journalists yesterday. The energy giant entered into Sierra Leone’s emerging oil industry through Oranto and together with its partners including Oranto own exploration Block SL-5. LUKOIL is a fully private, vertically integrated company which produces 20% of Russia’s[...]

Cluff Gold (AIM:CLF)(TSX:CFG) announced on Wednesday what it said was the “successful” completion of share offering disclosed on the 7th of March. Cluff said a “total of 25 million new ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company (“Shares”) have been placed by a syndicate led by Collins Stewart Europe Limited and GMP Securities[...]

Skye Bank (SL) a subsidiary of sub-regional banking giant Skye Bank PLC on Monday unveiled in Freetown what it described as a “unique” banking solution aimed at “facilitating” cross border payments. The “African Payment Service” or (Flitcash) as disclosed by the sub regional banker is an “effective and reliable intra African fund remittance platform” which[...]

It is becoming the order of the day, that the fall out after any political tussle is that civil servants thought to be supporting the opposition are sacked. This is wickedness. It is bad because Sierra Leone is one country and no one is more Sierra Leonean than the other, therefore depriving one son of[...]

We have complained and we will continue to complain about the Wilkinson road construction and the effect it is having on the people. We are truly sorry for the people running businesses along Wilkinson road and the people living along and adjacent to that road. We are sorry because the businesses along Wilkinson road have[...]

It has become a norm now in this country that foreigners can come and treat the citizens in any way they like and nobody says anything. In fact when people raise their voices they tag them as anti-establishment. This is what is happening now along Savage square where trailers have practically stopped any through traffic[...]

We whole heartedly welcome the move by the Inspector General (IG) of police to stop all outdoor political activities and observe a cooling off period. We refuse to jump into the debate about its legality or not, our support for this action is mainly because we feel that the country is slipping into conflict and[...]