By Ezekiel Nabieu
In the first part of this series I said, inter alia, that the dialectic of the simple life leaves itself wide open for misuse by those who want credit for living it but are in no way inclined to change their life style.
Knell on Sierra Leone's SciTech
By Kemo Cham
Last November, the Government of Sierra Leone hosted a ground-breaking forum on science and innovation. The conference on identifying Sierra Leone's vision for the promotion of agriculture, fisheries and industrial development through environmental science, technology and innovation, was hailed as a landmark move.
It follows, however, that so many a conferences, albeit conceived on genuine intentions, fail to achieve their objectives partly because after the chitchat hardly does anything happen.
Living the simple life
By Ezekiel Nabieu
Some of us may have been wondering why modern life has become so complicated. Alternatively we may be wondering if there are ways and means of making life simple.
Politicotorial - Thanks for the concern
On Friday last week three of our editorial team were involved in a road accident in the north of Sierra Leone. One that could have been fatal, but for the infinite mercy of God.
Isaac Massaquoi, Tanu Jalloh and Umaru Fofana were travelling on a Pathfinder vehicle of the Mayor of Koidu, His Lordship Saa Emerson Lamina, who was also onboard.
Obstacles, opportunities and the Local Content Policy
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.
Metric system doesn't add up
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.
