The Political Parties Registration Commission's (PPRC) recent decision to ban political rallies is as illegal, unlawful, and unconstitutional as the Police’s ban on vehicular movement in 2018. Political...
With barely two months to elections, there are pockets of arguments among and between politicians and supporters of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) and the main opposition All People’s...
The fate of Sierra Leone's political leaders, both the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) and the main opposition All People's Congress and the other political parties trying to hold on to their...
Many leaders before him criminalised free speech and used the seditious libel law to jail journalists, civil society activists and political opponents. His predecessor, Ernest Bai Koroma, promised during...
It is no secret that with the world economies taking a battering in recent years, the 2008 financial crisis, the first in the 21st century, a severe worldwide financial crisis was the worst since the great...
By John Leigh When Julius Maada Bio was elected President in 2018, one of his immediate actions was to appoint Kelfala Kallon as Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone. A Professor in Economics from...
Politicians and religion are two fragile elements in any society and should be kept away from each other like a cat and mouse. Also, with the current political climate and the precarious religious sentiments...
Her Excellency Dr. Fatima Maada Bio, the First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone and a current global star is the driving force behind the Hands Off Our Girls campaign. The campaign, which was started...
For an impoverished donor-dependent country that needs all the help it can get, Sierra Leone is astonishingly unkind to its diaspora nationals whose remittances contribute over 6 percent to the country's...
I approach this subject matter as someone that is always disturbed by the politics of deception, hate speech and prejudicial narrative in present day Sierra Leone. If you do not get this from the very...
