BottomLine

Retreating in the face of lawlessness

By Isaac Massaquoi The annual Inter-Secondary School athletics meeting for this year has been cancelled. The official in charge at the Ministry of Education was on radio last week saying that... 

• Goodluck’s goodwill that never was
• Here comes the rain again

BlackBox

President Koroma’s missed opportunities

By James Tamba Lebbie When the former Campaign Coordinator of the ruling All People’s Congress (APC) , Leonard Balogun Koroma went on air last week to say that the people of Sierra Leone... 

• The environmental cost of Sierra Leone’s water poverty
• The many faces of water poverty

Features

Operation WID, weed getting taller

By Asmieu Bah It was in January this year. President Ernest Bai Koroma addressed a gathering comprising the Police, the Sierra Leone Roads Authority, Road Transport Corporation and civil society.... 

• A random look at state institutions
• Free secondary schooling for girls

Business

Going beyond the extractive industries

By Tanu Jalloh A survey report released by Ernst & Young (EY) on May 6, 2013 in Johannesburg, South Africa has justified the need for natural resource-rich countries in Africa to go beyond... 

• Water: Costing the drops
• Africa and the world beyond 2015

Entertainment

Poem: Sierra Leone, the beauty of a nation

Green, White and Blue flow in my blood. Everywhere I go they run through my veins. The Lion mountains, ever so beautiful engulf me each time I go not wanting to leave. The smiling kids all over... 

• Kao works with Busy Signal… after LAJ’s collaboration with Cassidy
• ‘Mediocrity not for acting’ …laments ace actor, film maker

Politicotorial

Politicotorial: Prioritise Basic Education!

To coincide with the reopening of schools this week, we have decided to dedicate this special issue of Politico to the issue of basic education. If no one appreciates the significance of this... 

• Politicotorial: We condemn the beating-up of the Defence Minister
• Politicotorial: Old Road: A scar on Sierra Leone Govt’s conscience