By Kemo Cham
Last Friday about 15 people gathered at the small conference hall of the All Works of Life (AWOL) on Pa Demba Road in Freetown; the occasion was to say a “little” ‘Thank You’ to a young British volunteer social worker heading back home. Tom Stephenson arrived in Freetown early February as part of a one-man mission to help in the fight against the Ebola epidemic.
On 6 March the ruling All People’s Congress party took an unprecedented step and expelled from its ranks the then Vice President, Samuel Sam-Sumana. On 9 March, Politico’s Umaru Fofana met the Secretary General of the party, Alhaji Usman Yansanneh at his house for the following interview:
Politico: Why did you expel VP Sam-Sumana?
By Joseph Lamin Kamara
Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana has been sacked. That`s no news. My purpose here is not aimed at informing you about that controversial decision by President Ernest Koroma. Rather, it is to bring out the unconstitutionality in the act and the aberrancies in the immediate events that preceded it.
By Mustapha Kamara Jnr.
He was my friend, a true Fourahbite (someone who attended Forah Bay College), a Librite, a socialite and an excellent student of the History and Politics Department of the college. He was also an agile student politician on Campus and speaks eloquently and was always at the forefront challenging issues that had to do with the welfare of students on Campus.
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
The Sierra Leone National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT) is set to transform Sewa Grounds into a modern business center. The NASSIT plan to construct a multi-purpose market that officials say would accommodate about 4,000 traders will, hopefully, bring an end to years of search for solution to the proliferation of street trading in the Freetown municipality.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
