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Metric system doesn't add up

4:12 PM /

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.

EPL 2014, I see Manchester City

1:28 PM /

By Alpha Abu

Call it Koromanomics or Prosperinomics

1:14 PM /

By Abdul Majeed Sesay

Speech: President Koroma assures EITI

2:15 PM /

Statement by President Ernest Bai Koroma at the launch of the

EITI Independent Reconciliation Report 2011

Freetown, January 14, 2014

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2014 socio-religious positioning

12:31 PM /

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.