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By Ezekiel Nabieu

By Francis Ben Kaifala

Age has the advantage of wisdom and the disadvantage of tiredness. Both the consideration of the wisdom that age brings and the tiredness that it can lead to are often in the minds of Lawmakers when drafting requirement for positions. Thomas Paine (1737-1809) wrote thus:

“When in countries that are called civilized, we see age going to the workhouse and youth to the gallows, something must be wrong in the system of government”.

By Ezekiel Nabieu

Language has to do with words and their use which differentiates us from the lower animals. “Now the whole earth had one language and few words” (Genesis 11:1). There arose the Tower of Babel when the Lord is reported to have confused the language of all the earth.

By Ezekiel Nabieu

I am inclined to use the word KUDOS that has become a buzz-word for praise. In fact it is an informal word for honour and glory but the tendency for most people is the use of new words in spite of real meanings. In old English let me say: If thou doest well shall thou not be praised? Let us give the devil his due. Like all institutions, the SLBC has its merits and demerits.

By Sheik Bakar Kamara

By Ezekiel Nabieu

It is not illogical to think that most of those who deny that Ebola exists are atheists. The nexus could be discerned by the end of this piece. “The fool says in his heart ‘there is no God.’ They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none that does good,” Psalms 14:1.

By Francis Ben KaifalaEsq

A Convicted Criminal who has served the terms of his sentence and/or paid the required fine or other punishment by law is said to have “paid his debt” to Society.  This statement is aptly put, but the sayer may not necessarily be aware of it - no common parlance on crime and punishment makes more sense to an economist than this commonly used metaphor.