Feature

A rejoinder to our Thursday 1 May publication "Role of alcohol in nation building" which appeared to advance reasons in favour of alcohol.

By Sheikh Alie Kallay

Mr. Editor, please permit me to respond to this article in the same way it came to us in your widely read newspaper so that our readers can have the choice in choosing their life styles for themselves.

THE SIERRA LEONE HONOURS AND AWARDS 2014

It has graciously pleased his Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Supreme Head of State, Grand Commander of the Order of the Republic, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Force and Fountain Head of Unity, Honour, Freedom and Justice, to make the following Awards:

THE ORDER OF THE REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE - PREMIER ORDER OF THE STATE OF SIERRA LEONE

Have you ever wondered

Why we Humans; though Stubborn

Are Blessed by Our Beloved Father, Lord of all

Cause it’s when we act

Stupid and fail

We remember him

Have you ever wondered

By Ezekiel Nabieu

Sierra Leone is not an Islamic state where alcohol is forbidden. Therefore it can be safely assumed that alcohol has a role to play, otherwise hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions would be engaged in the industry as employees and in its use.

The state cannot continue to wink at alcoholism if it is all that deleterious to its citizens. And by extrapolation this applies to all other secular states in which there are hundreds of thousands of chronic alcoholics.

He gave me Eyes

To see his creation

So beautiful and splendid

That I never throw them away

By Brima Bah

British police may still be looking for Sierra Leonean long distance runner, Mami Konneh Lahun after she failed to return home last week. She had finished an impressive 20th at the London Marathon.

The police are looking for her because they want to be sure she has not become a victim of any of the many possible forms of human abuse or that she is safe, or that she is not a threat to their society or that she doesn't breach their immigration regulations or for whatever other reasons they may have.

By Ezekiel Nabieu

Easter has just gone by and one of the highlights in the many services of the season was the washing of the feet of church members after the fashion of Jesus Christ in modeling his servantship while on earth.

John Seldon said in his Table-Talk that “Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy and the clergy for the laity”.