20 April 2012 Nigeria is one of Africa’s most significant oil producers, but with corruption and economic mismanagement, the perennial problem of fuel shortage and the increasing rising cost of petrol at the pump is adding pressure on the economy and sparking social instability. Reporting for Africa Renewal, Yemisi Akinbobola [Read More]
Abdul R Thomas 19 April 2012 Common sense tells us that when GDP growth forecast is based on a predicted rise in exports, such forecast can only be relied upon as long as production and market conditions continue to hold true. And one should rightly expect a responsible government to [Read More]
Yusuf Keketoma Sandi 18 April 2012 In a country where the recent 2012 US Embassy statement on ‘Sierra Leone Investment Climate’ estimates that over 72 percent of the country’s population live on less than $1 per day – and in extreme poverty, you can laugh your head off whenever you hear [Read More]
16 April 2012 In 2007 Ernest Bai Koroma – leader of the opposition APC party caught the imagination of the electorate with his ‘Agenda for Change’ election campaign and manifesto title, and went on to win the elections. What was remarkably significant and odd about the 2007 elections, was that [Read More]
John Pa Baimba Sesay 15 April 2012 As the November 17th presidential and Parliamentary elections draw closer, the President of the republic of Sierra Leone – Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has said that; based on the performance of his government in the last five years, he is sure of not [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 April 2012: Yesterday, the International Monetary Fund issued a worrying statement on the state of the Sierra Leone economy, after meeting with president Koroma, the finance minister and the governor of the Central Bank. It could not have been a happy meeting of friends. The government of [Read More]
Dennis Kabatto There has been a huge upsurge in violence in the Sierra Leonean communities of Washington – DC, Maryland and Virginia (DMV Zone). This alarming trend has prompted concerned Sierra Leoneans in the DMV Zone to call an emergency ‘Stamp out Violence’ Town hall Meeting Saturday, April 14, at [Read More]
SLPP (North America) Communications Team 9 April 2012 Governments, a political wit once lamented, don’t lie, they merely fabricate. And to a limited extent, we can understand our leaders having to engage in some spin or public relations. But as the APC arms purchase scandal has revealed, this is a [Read More]
9 April 2012 President Koroma’s decision to import large cache of military grade arms and ammunition into the country, so close to a general election, is regarded at best with suspicion by the international community – especially the UN Security Council; and at worse, seen by most Sierra Leoneans and [Read More]
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