Feature

By Kemo Cham

Collaborative approach is the only way to tackle cervical cancer, experts and campaigners have said and reiterated the need for more public awareness on the leading killer cancer disease in Sierra Leone.

Official data indicate a rising trend of cancers generally and cervical cancer in particular in the country. This was the subject of discussion by a panel of experts in Freetown on Tuesday, February 7, as part of commemoration of World Cancer Day, which officially falls on February 4^th.

By Sahr Abraham Grass-Sessay

As the ‘dust’ of successive incidents of Saturday 28th January 2023 and Wednesday 1st February 2023 within the National Grand Coalition (NGC) Party continues to settle, we are better-placed to weigh in on the purported leaked audio of Hon. Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella (KKY).

Dr. Yumkella was the 2018 Presidential Flagbearer of the NGC Party. He is currently serving as the Parliamentary Leader of the said Party in Parliament.

By Rex Johnson

Living in close proximity to the Freetown city centre offers you a benefit: a short commute to the business area is advantageous, and doing business is made easier by that. The disadvantages are also rather difficult.

By Abdul Tejan-Cole

Thirty-one chimpanzees, led by one named Bruno, an enormous alpha male and uncontested ruler of the sanctuary, escaped the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in April 2006 and vanished into the bush. Bruno's current whereabouts are a mystery – may be presumed dead. Parts of Freetown were gripped by fear. It was perhaps the first time that most Sierra Leoneans heard about Tacugama and the fact that a sanctuary existed there for chimpanzees.

By Ruth Yeabu Sesay

Aminata (not her real name) is a 23 years old university student who started dating older married men after going through what she called heartbreak in senior secondary school obviously caused by a boy of her age and decided that, henceforth she wouldn’t date or have sex for fun. In fact she vowed to never date boys her age.

By Isaac Massaquoi

We are closing the year 2022 on the theme of Media Poverty. It’s not a poverty of ideas, professionalism and ambition but a near complete lack of money and other resources needed to deliver high quality journalism. The kind of journalism that would conform to what all journalists acknowledge as the cardinal principles of the trade – Public Service, Objectivity, Autonomy and Ethics.

By Alpha Abu

2022 is far spent and drawing to a close, with 2023 already around, about to be ushered in. As we look forward to the New Year, there were some moments of Sports worth mentioning, or should I say reliving, in 2022, depending on the spectacle that was played out!

Undoubtedly the most popular sporting discipline in Sierra Leone and the world over, football continues its slow rebirth after torturous years of unprecedented intrigue, infighting and shenanigans that got played out by those considered administrators of the game.