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By Sallieu T. Kamara

There’s a popular quote by the American educator, author, businessman and keynote speaker, Stephen Richards Covey, which says "seek first to understand, then to be understood." He goes further to say people that uphold this naturally are more inclined to be great leaders because they know the value of not only collecting all necessary information before they come to a conclusion, but also the need to make others feel heard.

By Joseph Bankole Thompson MD, PHD

Sierra Leone recorded 2.49% and 0.60% increase in COVID-19 total cases and total deaths respectively in 48 hours, from Thursday (10:00 am) to Saturday (10:00 am).

By Alpha Abu

For over seven years now football administration in Sierra Leone has been dogged by intrigue and unending rift amongst people who were supposed to ensure that sanity reigns in the game. People who much was expected of  whether by omission or commission stifled the progress of the game by inventing counter-productive measures or resorting to sometimes crude destructive tactics to bury the ambitions of perceived opponents just to maintain the status quo.

By Dr Ishmail Pamsm-Conteh

Over this past  weekend, I had an interesting telephone conversation with my dear friend, Dr. Joe Ansu Tucker (aka Posh). We started with small talk  about  the UK weather and  how Covid-19 has turned the whole world upside down.

Ansu and I have come a long way, from our days  at  Bo School,  then Fourah  Bay College and recently at the University of Leeds, where we both studied for our PhD degrees. He studied economics and I studied law.

By Joseph Bankole Thompson MD, PHD

Sierra Leone recorded 1.44% and 1.05% increase in COVID-19 total cases and total deaths respectively in 48 hours, from Tuesday (10:00 am) to Thursday (10:00 am).

INGO SEEKING FIRMS TO SUPPORT RESEARCH AND LEGAL SERVICES

Seed Global Health is an international non-governmental (INGO) health organization that supports education, practice, and policy of the local professional health workforce in Africa.

To inform its work in Sierra Leone, Seed is seeking two consultant teams or firms for different scope of services, described below.

By Franklin Sisabu Bendu

In 2018 and 2019 the hallmarks of our macroeconomic performance were an increase in revenue, rationalization of expenditure, decline in budget, sustainable debt profile, and increase in donor funds. All the macroeconomic projections in 2020 were to build on the improvements in 2018 and 2019.