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28/10/2020

Home LOCAL NEWS SLAJ President Remarks at Presidential Signing of Repeal of Criminal Libel Law... LOCAL NEWS SLAJ President Remarks at Presidential Signing of Repeal of Criminal Libel Law at State House By OUR ISSUE - October 28, 2020 0 2 Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp Mr President, let...

23/10/2020

Home COMMENTARY La Guinée sur la bombe à retardement (GUINEA ON A TIME... COMMENTARY La Guinée sur la bombe à retardement (GUINEA ON A TIME BOMB!) By OUR ISSUE - October 23, 2020 0 3 Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp The Third Term Club The Third Term Club (TTC) is one of Africa’s fa...

19/10/2020

Home LOCAL NEWS School replaces secret society bushes in Northern Sierra Leone LOCAL NEWS School replaces secret society bushes in Northern Sierra Leone By OUR ISSUE - October 19, 2020 0 3 Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp By Abdulrahman Koroma Two secret society bushes made to initiate me...

16/09/2020

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Home ECONOMY Sierra Leone: A nation that depends on others for its staple food Imported rice dominates local markets across Sierra Leone. ECONOMYFood Sierra Leone: A nation that depends on others for its staple food By OUR ISSUE - September 11, 2018 0 1 Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp By...

06/08/2020

Our country is not a producing/exporting country and as such we will always struggle to control the exchange rate, for as long as we import more than we export, and for as long as our demand for foreign currency is more than we have in the official sector.

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Home Local Politics The Leone vs the Dollar – watch the exchange rate Mr Bank... Local Politics The Leone vs the Dollar – watch the exchange rate Mr Bank Governor! By OUR ISSUE - August 6, 2020 0 3 Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp RODNEY MICHAEL SAYS There is no argument on the academ...

30/07/2020

Home LOCAL NEWS ARTICLE 19 welcomes the decriminalisation of defamation and seditious libel LOCAL NEWS ARTICLE 19 welcomes the decriminalisation of defamation and seditious libel By OUR ISSUE - July 30, 2020 0 3 Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp PRESS RELEASE Sierra Leone: Responding to th...

13/07/2020

“Again we know everybody wants the media to develop. But let me make bold to say the “blackmail and corruption” that you accuse the media of, can be minimised, if not ended, if the media practitioners are paid well. This can only happen if the door is opened to businessmen to invest in the media. As it stands any businessman who dares to invest in the media, stands the risk of going to jail for what his reporter might have written.”

Home LOCAL NEWS “Criminal Libel laws are an embarrassment to this country” SLAJ President LOCAL NEWS “Criminal Libel laws are an embarrassment to this country” SLAJ President By OUR ISSUE - July 13, 2020 0 4 Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp By: Christian Conteh The President of th...

11/07/2020

He was a pivotal player under former coach Johnny McKinstry playing in over four qualifying matches and was part of a 1-0 victory over Swaziland in Freetown 2014.

Home SPORT Sierra Leone’s Michael Lahoud retires from football aged 33 SPORT Sierra Leone’s Michael Lahoud retires from football aged 33 By OUR ISSUE - July 11, 2020 0 4 Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp Michael Lahoud has announced his retirement from football age 33 The Sierra Leone ...

10/07/2020

It is clear that the Attorney-General and the DPP need to enjoy prosecutorial discretion. It is necessary and important. However, such discretion must be exercised judiciously and not in an arbitrary, fanciful, oppressive, malicious or vexatious manner.

Home LOCAL NEWS Holding the Office of the AG Accountable for Wrongful Prosecutions LOCAL NEWS Holding the Office of the AG Accountable for Wrongful Prosecutions By OUR ISSUE - July 10, 2020 0 2 Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp By Basita Michael LLM BL –Barrister-At-Law “Not Guilty.”...

08/07/2020

We have for decades allowed our politicians to trample on us and have failed to strongly confront mediocrity in governance. We have become victims of the Stockholm syndrome.

Home LOCAL NEWS PALO’S ACQUITAL: WE ARE VICTIMS OF THE STOCKHOLM SYNDROME LOCAL NEWS PALO’S ACQUITAL: WE ARE VICTIMS OF THE STOCKHOLM SYNDROME By OUR ISSUE - July 8, 2020 0 3 Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp PONDER MY THOUGHTS By Andrew Keili I spent two years in Ukraine working in a ...

03/07/2020

Home LOCAL NEWS DEFENCE TO APPEAL PALO’S SENTENCE ON MONDAY LOCAL NEWS DEFENCE TO APPEAL PALO’S SENTENCE ON MONDAY By OUR ISSUE - July 3, 2020 0 3 Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp By Abdulrahman Koroma Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, defense lawyer for Retired Major Alfred Palo Conteh in th...

02/07/2020

Home Local Politics 2 freed but Palo jailed 2years Local Politics 2 freed but Palo jailed 2years By OUR ISSUE - July 2, 2020 0 3 Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp By Abdulrahma Koroma After spending a little over two hours in engaging themselves, twelve jurors in the treason trial against....