Feature

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.

I am Here Today

Hello

I’ll try to be here always

Hello

Yesterday was not good

But I was here

To comfort you

Hello

Tomorrow will be a brighter day

For we have a God

I’m here

By Kemo Cham
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest human diseases, which continue to defy the supremacy of medicine. A combination of factors has connived to ensure this, despite decades or perhaps centuries of efforts supported by billions of US Dollars in research and treatment.

By Ezekiel Nabieu

It is a fact that all those peddling this odious idea of a presidential Third Term cannot be Christians, Muslims or members of other organised religions that believe in God Almighty.

They are damned atheists living without God and without hope in the world. And the greatest beneficiary is obviously suffering from incurable megalomania.

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.