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15/09/2022

The old Note has been extended until March 2023

20/08/2022

Arsenal power into first place, Kane makes history

Arsenal swept to the top of the Premier League with a 3-0 win at Bournemouth that extended their perfect start to the season, while Harry Kane made history in Tottenham's 1-0 victory over Wolves on Saturday Just 12 months ago, Arsenal lost their first three league games in the club's worst start to a season for 67 years.
This year the Gunners sit in pole position after opening the campaign with a third successive victory.
It is too soon to declare Arsenal the finished article, but the derision that accompanied Mikel Arteta's men when they squandered a golden opportunity to qualify for last season's Champions League has been erased by their strong start this term.
After scoring four against Leicester last weekend, this was another swashbuckling display from the north Londoners.
Arsenal went ahead after five minutes as Gabriel Jesus' superb run and pass found Gabriel Martinelli whose shot was pushed into the path of Martin Odegaard for a simple finish.
Denmark midfielder Odegaard netted again six minutes later when Jesus' heavy touch fell kindly for the Arsenal captain to fire home from 10 yards.
William Saliba's 54th-minute goal, a superb first-time curler from the edge of the area, epitomised the confidence pulsing through Arsenal as the French defender claimed his first goal for the club.
Second-placed Tottenham have also made a strong start after backing Antonio Conte heavily in the transfer market in his first full season in charge.
After snatching a place in the Champions League from Arsenal in May, Tottenham have kept the momentum going with seven points from their first three games.
However, Conte was still displeased with a sloppy first-half performance that could have been punished by more potent opponents.
Tottenham improved markedly after the break and got their reward when Kane bulleted home a header after Ivan Perisic flicked on Son Heung-min's corner.
Kane's 185th Premier League goal – his 250th in all competitions for Tottenham – set a record for the most scored by anyone for a single club, edging ahead of Sergio Aguero's 184 for Manchester City.
"I said that if we repeat the same results as last season we stay after three games with zero points," said Conte.
"Instead to get seven points showed that this team is improving in many aspects."

17/06/2022

Why does a little rain cause Freetown to flood, and make roads dangerous or impassible? Simple: The hillside forests are now built up settlements
In bygone decades when Freetown had forested hills, even the famous 7-days rain every August hardly caused flooding, because the hillside trees and soil saw to it that most of the rain was absorbed before reaching the city. Which is why the rivers flowed throughout the year. Today most of these former rivers are dry beds of informal settlements.
The hills around Freetown absorb or drink the rain, and swallow it to form an underground reservoir or the water table. This stored water is gradually released over the dry season as rivers. But now the hillside trees are mostly gone, so their roots can no longer hold the soil that absorbs the rain like sponge takes in water. Now the rain simply cascades down directly into the city, unchecked by the trees, and unabsorbed by the soil. Worse still, most of the hillside land area that absorbed the rain has been covered by eyesore settlements (munku houses). These buildings block the rain from going underground, by allowing very little space for the rain to percolate into the soil. The result? Rain water that should have gone underground now runs down unchecked with high gravitational force and volume of water from the hills, flooding the city. And it sweeps away the remaining top soil, exposing rocks, and creating the instability that leads to mudslides, or dislodged giant rocks tumbling down, crushing everything in its unpredictable path. There is no quick fix to this.
Unfirtunately it will keep getting worse every rain season so long as the hillside deforestation and building spree continues unchecked. To reverse this ugly trend, we must be replace the obstructing settlements with a massive hillside reforestation programme. Making Freetown the Tree town it was famously known as. Anything else or less is a sham and shame.

17/06/2022

Dr. Sylvia Blyden's Titbits for the Night of 15/06/2022

Audio 075 will be out later but for tonight, I want to highlight few issues as quick written titbits.

1. The APC party needs to, ONCE AGAIN, issue a disclaimer distancing APC from despicable rants of puppies of ventriloquist master Ernest Bai Koroma.

2. The APC party needs to put all the notorious broadcast ilk under control. Those social media commentators cannot be allowed to continue ranting nonsense purportedly for APC. Those of them who refuse to be controlled should be publicly denounced.

3. The Vice President Hon. Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh needs to act with more MATURITY in the Polity. We know the VP got himself embedded in the MORASS in Tonkolili. It's sickening to watch how the Police (of which the VP is Police Council Chairman) is now being used to intimidate key APC stakeholders and elected APC Members of Parliament.

4. The Speaker of Parliament the Rt. Hon. Dr. Abass Chernor Bundu (he is normally a good man!) needs to immediately put in measures to PROTECT elected Members of Parliament from being further intimidated. This is what I see as PARLIAMENTARY WELFARE ISSUES. Not that Welfare Bill oh.

5. The Speaker of Parliament who is very close to the Hon. Vice President needs to have a long Father-Son advisory discussion with the Hon. VP about the vicissitudes of Political seasons. There seems to be an element of POWER DRUNKENNESS somewhere somehow inside the current National Polity. This drunkenness must be curtailed.

6. H.E. President Dr. Julius Maada Bio must be once again commended by us all for ensuring he enters Falaba District tomorrow (16/06/2022) on the day slated for the SLPP to campaign in that District. Today (15/06/2022) was APC's day to campaign in Falaba. President Bio travelled up North today but he decided to wait inside Koinadugu District tonight where he will sleep and then he will travel to enter Falaba District tomorrow which is SLPP's day to campaign. That's Statesmanship. This way, nobody has disturbed the APC campaigns inside Falaba Ward 138 today contrary to how the actions of the Vice President resulted in serious disruption of the APC in Tonkolili District Constituency 056 over the weekend.

7. The Minister of Defense, the Chief of Defense Staff and RSLAF need to explain to us who owns the military truck that AMBUSHED and blocked the APC stakeholders from peacefully returning to Freetown from Tonkolili. The number plate of the military truck that AMBUSHED and DIRECTLY CONFRONTED the convoy of Honourable Dr. Samura Kamara and other APC stakeholders is as follows:
14 SL 51
It was a brand new military truck and there were well armed, uniformed soldiers (male and female soldiers) seen during the DIRECT CONFRONTATION with APC party members. The photos exist so it is very SHAMEFUL to read the RSLAF in their Press Release claim that no such confrontation happened with the APC. To my mind, the RSLAF and the Ministry of Defense are just taking "DRY EYE TO COVER THEIR SHAME!" And what a big, big shame to them. Imagine Sojaman day go lay ambush for APC political party members. Soldiers ambushing Politicians. So shameful bo.

I drop my pen.
Over and Out.
Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden OOR
Wednesday June 15th 2022

09/06/2022

Vietnam to Supply Rice, Build Farmers’ Capacity

A Vietnamese delegation to Sierra Leone has paid a courtesy call on President Julius Maada Bio, and expressed desire and interest for a stronger partnership with the country.
It could be recalled that in March this year, President Bio and his delegation arrived in Hanoi, the capital city of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, at the invitation of His Excellency Nguyen Xuan P**c, who initiated the discussions around bilateral cooperation between the two countries.
The visit focused on six key areas including the signing of an agreement for the supply of rice, investing in capacity building in mechanised farming, providing technical expertise to the value chain in fish production among others.
In a brief remark, President Dr Julius Maada Bio welcomed the visiting delegation, saying that his government was ready to work with them for a sustained economic transformation of Sierra Leone.
“We hope that with this visit, we will deepen and widen cooperation between our two countries. On our part, we will take this relationship seriously. Thank you very much,” President Bio concluded.

09/06/2022

KAYS THETHREATSON HAS THIS TO SAY
No faking sh*t...simply reality and am not doin this to impress any one but i av to clear my mind positively.....
sometimes I wonder where were the Davido Wizkid Burna boy Fire boy Joe boy and the rest of these new school Nigerian artists where way back when I released my 1st album (Born 2 Shine) 2008 and later released my second album (Diamond Briefcase)2010 which I sponsored myself....
very funny how the world move so fast more especially when u living in a country like this where promotions for real talents like us is been a very difficult task.....
Sitting down and watching how time flies so fast without achieving and reaching the dreams and goals you wanted is very complicated frustrating and confusing.....nobody knows the kind of pain it feels...only God knows what best he kept......
Yet still I still keep chasing my challenges and always fighting so hard to overcome it all...with all my strength all my focus all my hopes and all my enthusiasms and all my everything it takes as a human being with God's power and all what it takes I believe the storm will be finally over one day and reality will av to reveal it all out and the entire world will got to know about the struggles av been through as a young talented musician and a song writer of my country Sierra Leone when success knocks at the door at the right time and the world would know some of us and some of our potential we possess here in Africa.......
can't say much now but just want to accept myself again for who I am and for what av been standing and fighting for with all sincierity I vowed to myself that I am always ready to confront all my challenges it takes to overcome and my victory shall be like a "BLOWN TRUMPET" to the world...
with all my faith and trust i believe it with all happen one day by the power of the only one I got and trust in which is 1 "GOD"(ALMIGHTY ALLAH)..........I keep enduring.........
I "BELIEVE".....

08/06/2022

Cotton Tree Freetown Sierra Leone

08/06/2022

It is a reflection of the beauty of leadership that first and foremost fears God, and at the same time cares about its people. It is a leadership that emerged after decades of turmoil and despair, when most Sierra Leoneans gave up hope on politics, its failings and inability in finding solutions to socio-economic and political problems

08/06/2022

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08/06/2022

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