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Attempt to Burn Down Citizen Radio FM 103.7 Kissy Failed

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:48:38 +0000

It all happened on Sunday morning at about 2:30pm when the chief security noticed that someone was stealthily moving around the radio station building. He came out of the building and saw a man with a plastic container sprinkling a substance which he later identified as petrol.

The President’s wicked men

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:40:02 +0000

Some of you readers, may have already heard on the weekend Good Governance program called ‘Monologue’ on several radio stations, regarding the President’s tall orders; asking that the authorities at the College of Medicine, Allied and Health Services, COMAHS, be thoroughly investigated by the police and that he be properly informed. Procedurally, the investigations were actually carried out by the police, under the command of Francis Munu, then head of professional standards at the police head quarters. But carrying out the President’s mandate by the police was never equaled to placing the results of such investigations before His Excellency, the President.

The More, the Merrier

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:32:44 +0000

The More, the Merrier? Rumours had been making the rounds that Dr Alpha Tejan Wurie was one of the aspirants for the coveted position of presidential candidate and flag bearer of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party for the elections in 2012. But these were just rumours- until Monday this week. On that fateful day, Dr Alpha Wurie finally put paid to the rumours. He declared his intention in style. Some say he did it with panache.

Selling the kids to build the future!

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:06:20 +0000

Wonders never end in comedy, but in awesomeness!

“London Mining on Course…” Executive says

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:45:38 +0000

An executive of the London Mining Company in Sierra Leone has said that his company is on course and continues to be a very important development partner in the country.

Capt. (Rtd) Strasser: Where are his friends?

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:32:12 +0000

From a little far away Dakar in Senegal, a non-Wolof speaking Sierra Leonean, once the envy of every sound thinking adventurist lady emerges with unshaven cheeks sneered only on mere bones representing the unkempt-once likely appearance of a lost national hero. So is the look now of Sierra Leone’s former Head of State, Valentine Esegrabo Melvin Strasser, staying in Touba, the Islamist religious shrine infested-area of the across-the-sea village often visited by tourists and talisman seekers of fortune. Beginning just within the last few months, Strass, as friends fondly call him, began to show signs of distress of melancholic withdrawal syndromes; a hyper-type that engenders avoidance of society and all it stands for. Yes, Strass must avoid the Sierra Leonean society and all it means to sane people. No longer useful to once revered friends and relatives, though a few, including the tall humanely beautiful black lady of a queenly reverence decided to seek redress for her son, to the Senegalese curers of insanity in Touba; a highly revered court of talismatic-religious presence of preponderantly ominous powers believed to be able to aid the abandoned and insane. But yes, another client of ill-fate has the Senegalese Touba have now in the name and status of Sierra Leone’s former great man. As to how Strass may have been regarded insane is no longer a relevant question; but as to how he came to be in the state where he is now, is common knowledge in Sierra Leone. In his state, who would not feel abandoned? Was he not shoved aside by his best of friends in arms in February of 1996?

Did he not see himself as an ostracized member of a once lovely family of young and admired military service men in power?

As EBK delays appointment…Denis Sandy Squeezed and…Cases pile up at ACC

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:27:10 +0000

“As the President, Ernest Bai Koroma struggles to find a suitable replacement for Tejan Cole, the erstwhile Anti graft Commissioner for the country’s Anti Corruption Commission, ACC, cases are piling up for the courts. This is dwindling trust and confidence in the institution”, says a senior British citizen whose country, UK, is instrumental in funding the ACC.

According the ACC Act 2008 (as amended), the chief commissioner would have to have a legal back ground. An inside source has told The Punch that this has affected officials at the Commission as it stops them from charging many big cases to court.

“We can mine here for 60 years” AML GM Marcus Reston says

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:04:06 +0000

The General Manager and chief Geologist of the African Minerals Limited, Mr. Marcus Reston, who has been working at the AML for nearly two years now as the camp-mining site director based in Feregbaya in Tonkolili, has said that the entire life span of the iron ore mining of the three identified hills could concordantly run into 60 years, but that the “first phase of the mining of the deposits on these three hills is scheduled to take almost 40 years”.

MPs impressed with African Minerals

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:00:50 +0000

A group of members of parliament from the Parliamentary Group on mining, headed by APC Member of Parliament, Chernor Bah, has visited some of the mining sites of African Minerals. According to a representative member of the group, SLPP giant, Hon. Mathew Nyuma said “it is a laudable venture and that this is the type of national development that we too at the opposition support”.

Anthony Navo Jr. presents the facts

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:40:36 +0000

Mr. Anthony Navo Jr. has corrected certain errors in the Issue 7 publication of the Calabash

Magazine. While thanking editorial staff of the Calabash Magazine for a very good attempt in

marketing enterprising Sierra Leoneans who have managed to excel in their individual capacities,

including his humble self, Mr. Navo said he believes that certain historical facts were mixed up,

inadvertently though.