Starprize winner of the Onlime December 2017 promotions has returned and was welcomed at their Hill Station office by Onlime’s chairman, Stuart Bentham, who heard testimonies from her 5-day all-expenses-paid trip to Accra, Ghana.
Hawanatu Agnes Songo, who travelled with her partner, said their stay at the Roots Apartment Hotel, the serene and beautiful neighbourhood of Off Oxford Street in Osu, was breathtakingly important for them as partners and first time travellers.
“I am grateful to God and Onlime. I have never travelled out of Sierra Leone. I am super excited and I look forward to the experience of traveling to a country like Ghana”, says star prizewinner of the Onlime December 2017 Promotions.
Hawanatu Agnes Songo was recently addressing the media at the offices of Onlime 33 Regent Road, Hill Station in Freetown, where she also stated that: “I guess my passion for going out with friends and having fun and sharing posts and photos of those bits on Limey social networking site has paid off”.
EXCERPT: Human rights campaigners in the West African nation are cherry-picking which rights they defend on the basis of religion, culture, and tradition, leaving LGBTQ communities vulnerable.
AUTHOR: Kemo Cham
By Kemo Cham
When a room packed with activists was asked how many times pregnant women were expected to attend antenatal clinic, the responses were interesting and revealing.
“Two times…Three times…Four times…,” they guessed.
By Umaru Fofana
In March 2016 Moijueh Kaikai and Mustapha Bai Attila were sacked as Sierra Leone's Minister and Deputy Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs respectively. It followed their involvement in a disgraceful, distasteful and disgusting public brawl of humiliating proportions. There was an outcry. But in a country of sensation and coverup, we let that pass. Without demanding that the allegations made in that public brouhaha be looked into, if only to ward off any such in the future.
By Alpha Kamara
The Rogbaneh Road cold room in Makeni – a once buzzing market in the heart of Sierra Leone – stands empty. Very little fish is available on the stalls. For the fish mongers who rely on the trade, there’s little to do but stand idly by and wait and reminisce. It’s clear that their customers have gone elsewhere.
Their chairlady, 48-year-old Kadie Koroma thinks illegal and foreign fishing is killing their age-old trade.
By Mohamed Turah Massaquoi
It’s 12:00 noon in Pujehun, in the southern part of Sierra Leone. At this time each day in the week most people in this district of a population of slightly over 300, 000 are likely to be glued to their radio sets, listening to the most popular program on Radio Wanjei – Chiefdom Satellite.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
