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By Ezekiel Nabieu

Prosperity consists in prospering and not in having prospered. It is not historical. It is a now phenomenon. Don’t tell me you had 10 houses and billions of Leones in Kono which were all destroyed and taken away by rebels adding that you are prosperous.

Unfortunate as that situation is you may be living on alms by the grace of God. Prosperity is also not a tantalising future event.

By Ezekiel Nabieu

On the 28 April 2014, the 50^th anniversary of the death of Sierra Leone’s first Prime Minister was observed privately by relatives and friends with little mention of the event in the media.

Dear  Government of Sierra Leone,

Our Agenda For Prosperity is Failing to keep our pregnant women and children from dying in Sierra Leone! This is evident in the number of women and children who continue to meet their demise during childbirth. ACTUALLY THE WORST IN THE WORLD.

I would like to applaud you for the work that has been done for the last 15 years to address the issues of maternal death in this country. However, as a concerned citizen of this great nation I refuse to be a hypocrite!

Othman Alghali

By Aroun Rashid-Deen

By Khadi Mansaray

Independence Day provides a reason to celebrate and painstakingly search for things to be proud of. It is sometimes extremely hard to find things to be proud of and admittedly you have to look hard. Among the despair there are things that we can be proud of - and that is our people.

Amongst the Sierra Leoneans behaving badly lie the gems of our society that redeem us and give us hope. There are those who not only give tireless service but also do so with compassion and nobility.

By Ezekiel Nabieu

SLPP, the party that led this country to a ‘premature’ independence is at present a pitiable entity moving from disaster to disaster of inscrutable proportions. One such disaster was when the Minority Leader, Dr. Bernadette Lahai took it upon herself to second the motion for the election of the new House Speaker.

By Kemo Cham
Despite three decades of effort put into eradicating it, the world is under the threat of poliomyelitis, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned last week as it declared the viral disease a "public health emergency of international concern".
It followed a report identifying 10 countries found to have reneged on their obligation to contain the crippling virus which had come close to eradication.