By John Sisay
With almost 70% of the world’s poorest people living in resource-rich countries, the resource curse continues to be one of nature’s cruellest ironies. Small wonder then that Sierra Leone has joined countries like Ghana, Nigeria and Angola in introducing Local Content Requirements (LCRs) to help translate our subterranean wealth, as well as the potential contained within our agriculture and tourism sectors, into sustainable prosperity for all.
By Ezekiel Nabieu
There have been many moves to be more global by many nations and Sierra Leone is no exception. We cannot help but try to keep up with the national Joneses as it were. Our latest attempt to get into the swim is with regard to the switch over from the imperial system of avoirdupois to metric that is being announced by the SLBC. Our greatest handicap is illiteracy. And when it is considered that approximately 70 percent of our populace are illiterate the magnitude of the problem comes to the fore.
Statement by President Ernest Bai Koroma at the launch of the
EITI Independent Reconciliation Report 2011
Freetown, January 14, 2014
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By Ezekiel Nabieu
Each new calendar year brings with it the onus of doing new things or doing old things in a new way. 2014 is no exception. An apt biblical quote in Ecclesiastes 1:9 states: “There is no new thing under the sun”. Indeed if there is, someone will write about it and disabuse our minds.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
