Feature

The Office of the Ombudsman was established as an Act of Parliament to look into administrative malpractices bordering on human rights violations. It has always been under the radar for various reasons.

Lawyer Leon Jenkins-Johnson was appointed to the position by President Julius Maada Bio. In this interview with Mabinty Kamara, Mr Jenkins-Johnson spoke about the challenges he has faced since assuming office, the institutions that make his job difficult, and how he intends to overcome these challenges.

By Dr Modupe Taylor-Pearce

In the next 10 years, any company in existence today that has not expanded their customer base past the borders of its present country will go out of business or become a fraction of its current size.

By Ibrahim S. Mansaray

Every year, countless bodies are taken to the grave due to medical failures. Failures which can be avoided if only medical authorities and citizens alike can investigate the sources of these problems and try to resolve them once and for all.

Wrong Diagnoses, wrong treatments, wrong administration of drugs, wrong operational and theatre procedures among others are the primary reasons for these countless avoidable deaths.

By Dr Modupe Taylor- Pearce

On 28 June 2020, a man called Lazarus came back from the dead.

By Kemo Cham

On one Friday evening in June, a young boy, aided by a relative, limped into the Imperi Community Health Center, southern Sierra Leone. The patient had high fever and was coughing. He complained of abdominal pain, all of which are among the most common signs and symptoms of Covid-19.

Unfortunately for him, it was too late. He died moments after his arrival, right at the entrance of the hospital.

Dr Ishmail Pamsm-Conteh.

Sierra Leone’s economy is largely reliant on foreign aid, rather than on national investment or Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Suffice it to say that in other to attract investments certain things must change. They include an improved human rights record and an attractive legal environment. This is because there is a direct correlation between all of these issues.

By Abdulai Khanja Jalloh 

The reason Sierra Leoneans are clamoring for 23 July to be recognized as Media Freedom Day is that on this day in 2020, the Parliament of Sierra Leone repealed the criminal and seditious libel provisions of the Public Order Act of 1965, extensively debated and unanimously passed into law the Independent Media Commission (IMC) Amendment Act 2020.