By Ezekiel Nabieu
Sierra Leone and the anti-malaria efforts
By Kemo Cham
Sierra Leone`s anti-malaria crusade received a major moral boost last week when the country was named among 12 recipients of the 2015 African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) Award.
Sierra Leone was recognized for it efforts in improving on Malaria control. The awards were presented at the just concluded 24th African Union Heads of State Summit in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, at the end of January, but the trophy was formally presented to President Ernest Bai Koroma last Thursday.
The demise of postal service in Sierra Leone
By Kemo Cham
Like many businesses in the country today, the Sierra Leone Postal Services (Salpost) is going through tough times. Depending on who you talk to, different managements have different diagnoses to their situations and Ebolaal most always takes the major share of the blame.
But the management of Salpost has much in their minds than the immediate aftermath of the epidemic for a recovery program.
Surviving cancer in Sierra Leone
By Kemo Cham
In October last year Khadija Konneh must have felt a second chance to life when the 23-year-old was presented with a return ticket to Accra in Ghana, where she was to undergo treatment for breast cancer.
Like many in Sierra Leone suffering from cancer (and their number is growing at an alarming trend, according to experts), the only chance of survival is through overseas treatment. This is because of the total absence of the requisite facilities locally. Yet very few people can afford the cost involved.
Sierra Leone minimum and maximum wages
By Ezekiel Nabieu
Strange as it may seem I talk of maximum wages. This is balanced thinking. I deem it to be lopsided thinking to think of one of the spectrum without thinking of the other. And you cannot think of wages without labor.
Incidental Ebola Benefits
By Ezekiel Nabieu
What a headline! While others are chanting “Ebola go, tenki papa Ernes, here I am virtually appreciating diabolic Ebola. But even the devil has his attributes. Ebola was brazen enough to enter 2015 with us even as we tried with might and main to scupper it.
To Ebola I say “sad new year, I wish you could change your abhorrent behavior of killing our most useful sons and daughters. Wish you N.R (Never Return).
