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By Ezekiel Nabieu

Question: Where are we? Answer: In a State of Emergency and not necessarily in a state of dictatorship. Our 1991 Constitution makes provision for the declaration of Emergency which suspends and not usurps the rights of citizens. The Constitution has not been suspended. What happens during these Emergencies depends on the manner in which they are operated by the wielders in order to achieve set goals. In other words it is not what is being done but it is how it is done that matters.

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By Sallieu T. Kamara

By Ezekiel Nabieu

As institutions of learning continue to remain closed indefinitely pupils and students continue to frolic or laze at home, engage in some useful pursuits or some mischief. Meanwhile teachers and lecturers bide their time, missing summer schools now prohibited and wishing that their institutions could be re-opened any time now. Time is available but it can only be meaningful to us variously according to what we use it for. An hour in a cell may be experienced like 24 hours in freedom. Therefore time depends on the imagination.

By Francis Ben Kaifala Esq

It is often said that the choices we make determine our destiny. In the Bible, we hear of our right to choice as the "divine free will", while in Economics we are told of "choice" as a means of allocating scarce resources. In legal parlance, one key function of the law is to limit the framework within which people make choices – law limits God-given free will.

By Ezekiel Nabieu

Ebola is a damning blot on our escutcheon. Even with feeble feet and tattered boots it should be kicked out of our territory in the shortest possible time. Every kick contributes to the total elimination of Ebola.

 Mustapha Kamara

 “…The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably ……. peacefully… We were amused at his foolishness… he has put a knife on the things that held us together and now we have fallen apart”

By Lans Gberie

The impulse to regard infectious diseases that cause sudden deaths as forbidding mysteries that befall only the despised ‘other’ is an ancient one. The Hebrew authors of the Old Testament did not evoke mystery when they happily narrated how, responding to the wish of their necromantic leader Moses, God inflicted 10 plagues on the ancient Egyptians who were holding their ancestors captive. But they were less certain about a latter plague which befell their mortal (and far superior) enemies, the Philistines.