Feature

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay 

Gianni Infantino is the new president of football’s world governing body, FIFA. Following a second round of voting in late February he won with 115 votes against Sheik Salman’s 88. The buildup to the election had been intense. However, the election is part of a broader process of reformation which FIFA has embarked on to clean its image. amid allegations of skullduggery.

By Hassan Ibrahim Conteh

The mass exodus of African youths to foreign nations through illegal and perilous means seeking ‘greener pastures’ has been a hot topic of discussion recently.

The high seas, over the years, have been the gateway, and countries such as the US, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, among others, have been the landing places for these youths. The risks are high because the host countries, most times, refuse them entry and they have to devise means to beat the systems.

But the risks are higher during their voyage at sea.

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay 

The media has had great influence in Sierra Leone; from the doom days of the 11years civil war right unto the democratic era; where it now defines everything; from which public official to be sacked next by the President to whom should be found guilty in court of law.

Infantino

By Rodney Edmond Michael

It was the great Liverpool Manager, Bill Shankly, who once said "people think football is a matter of life and death. I am disappointed at those who think like that. It is far more important than that."

By Habib M Sesay, PhD

Abstract

By Michael Imran Kanu

Introduction

By Hassan Ibrahim Conteh

The scarcity of stones at Metchem has forced some stone miners to painfully trek to risky locations in search of boulders to break.

Metchem Quarry is located around the Seventh Battalion Barracks in Goderich in the west end of Freetown. It was formally run by a stone mining company called Metchem. After the company’s collapse people started coming there to mine stones for their survival.