…..President Koroma urges Sierra Leoneans during the launch of the Agenda for Prosperity. – His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has said at the official launch of the Agenda for Prosperity on Friday 12th July, 2013 at the Miatta Conference Centre that, the Agenda for Prosperity will be the country’s road map for the next five years in meeting the goal of becoming a middle income country and donor nation within the next 25 to 50 years. He however warned that prosperity is not a gift on a silver plata but only comes to those that go for it. The... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, July 14th 2013 |
…….David? Tam Mbayoh, A Model of Measurement in Media Illiteracy- Aristotle selected rationality, the capacity to think, as the defining attribute of Man. Descartes sought to distinguish mind from matter by characterizing the former as ‘that which thinks’. It is not surprising that these two philosophers should seize upon one of the most distinctive human capacities in their definitions. It is true that many of the activities involved in human thinking are present lower down the evolutionary scale, particularly among vertebrate animals; but the human animal has developed these activities to such an extent that there is a huge gap... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, July 11th 2013 |
The 85% shareholder in the African Investment Portfolio telecommunications wing, LAP Green Net, which is registered in the country as Ambitel-Green Net Sierra Leone Limited, has been accused of breach of shares agreement between its partner, founder and Director of Ambitel Sierra Leone, Mr. Michael Kenneth Ondaan, for failure to fulfil its part of the deal. As per the said shares agreement, it was stated that Mr. Michael Kenneth Ondaan be recruited as a chairman of board of directors and a consultant with a monthly salary of $6, 000, 00, totalling to $216,000 including interest, from 2009 to date. Speaking... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, July 11th 2013 |
By Dennis Kabatto – As the debate over whether to repeal or invoke Sierra Leone’s Public Order Act of 1965 intensifies, two journalists Kashope Holland-Cole, managing editor and Ibrahim Samura, editor of the Prime Time newspaper have respectively offered a public apology and retracted false and malicious defamatory articles they published against Attorney Adekunle King. The retraction and public apology is part of an agreement mediated by the president of Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) Mr. Kelvin Lewis and his executive for Attorney King to drop pending criminal charges and civil lawsuit against Prime Times newspaper, Mr. Cole and... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, July 10th 2013 |
His Excellency, President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has on Thursday 4th July, 2013, attended the Millennium Challenge Coordinating Unit (MCCU) presentation of a diagnostic study of the Sierra Leone economy as well identifying binding constraints to private investments and broad-based growth at the Credentials Hall, Office of the President, State House, Freetown. According to State House Chief of Staff, Dr Richard Konteh who presided over the presentation ceremony, the meeting was to present cabinet ministers with an opportunity to go through the report, backed with a CD containing the detailed report, who are then expected to share details of the... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, July 8th 2013 |
