FIRST LADY ROLLS INTO KONOLAND IN COL. GHADAFFI-STYLE CONVOY The people of the troubled district of Kono must be forgiven for thinking that Col. Ghadaffi had resurrected from the grave and was on a visit to their headquarter town of Koidu last weekend. Actually, it was the First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone who was in the area for the funeral of a prominent native of the district. The late... 

THE PMDC LEADER, THE LAND QUESTION AND ALLEGED SUBVERSION – THE REAL QUESTIONS The PMDC leader spent the weekend in a police cell at CID headquarters on Slater Terrace in central Freetown. It’s been a real rollercoaster few days for the Dalai Lama and his future as a free man is uncertain as he faces a serious charge of subversion that could land him at the notorious Pademba Road prisons for a... 

WAS TOLLA THOMPSON’S PPRC INVITED TO THE APC CONVENTION? Whilst assembling our TWITTER comments last night, we were unable to find out if the PPRC was invited to the recent APC convention in Freetown. You know since the convention ended we’ve been waiting for the PPRC to make some comments about the event to the people on whose behalf they operate. But Lord Thompson is unusually very quiet about... 

ON WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY: SHYLLON JAILS JOURNALISTS When two of our colleagues were arraigned before Magistrate Shyllon last Friday on libel and defamation charges, we had some fears about how the court was going to treat them for the following reasons: 1. The lawyer who is the complainant in the case had suddenly informed the IMC he would no longer pursue his case through the commission and had... 

FAILED LOGUS KOROMA AND THE THIRD TERM AGENDA Those who know Logus Koroma must tell him right away that there will be no escape for him and his THIRD TERM MOVEMENT if they end up plunging this nation into chaos once again. We heard him clearly on an APC –sponsored program on Universal Radio on Tuesday evening telling the nation that De Pa has done well for Sierra Leone more than any other leader... 

SUPREME COURT CASE MESSES UP CENTRAL FREETOWN We still can’t believe that Munu ordered his people to lock down the heart of Freetown and manhandle opposition supporters the way they did just because of a case at the Supreme Court about an election petition that has taken longer than usual to be heard. Our judiciary wouldn’t like this but we strongly believe that Kenya and Ghana shamed us into moving... 

MINKAILU BAH’S FIVE-YEAR REPORT CARD We’ve been trying unsuccessfully to reach Sister Lynda Ngaojia, the “Woman of God” who recently made those extraordinary comments on her encounter with the heavenly host. We want to commission her to behave like the Witch of Endor and tell us why Minkailu Bah, De Pa’s most confident – even if complacent minister – decided to open up to the media recently... 

GRADUATION AT USL WITHOUT DE PA: WATIN APIN? Many students will miss De Pa at this year’s University of Sierra Leone congregation. We hear he has already told the University authorities that he will not be climbing Mount Olympus this weekend. As usual no reason has been given to the general public about this decision. It’s always a great thing to shake the hand of De Pa at occasions like that despite... 

FROM OBAMA LAND WITH WHAT: WILL DE PA SPEAK UP NOW? On behalf of our esteemed readers we want to welcome De Pa back home from Obama Land. We also want to congratulate him for making that very important shortlist of human beings wanting to meet the most powerful man on planet earth. We have some concerns though. First of all, we think the meeting was very crowded and so De Pa may not have been able... 

DE PA MEETS THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD We still have to find out if De Pa’s meeting with Obama will last for more than one hour. It will nevertheless be a perfect photo op. US presidents don’t spend too much time talking because they have the whole world to look over. For example, they have to study the consequences of a foolish coup in Central Africa Republic; the refusal to hold... 

BABABODE CAN’T PAY FOR FCC RECEIPT BOOKS We visited the Government Printing Department (GPD) last week to verify information we received from our source at the Freetown City Council that the local government authority had run out of receipt books. We can now confirm that we saw a stack of receipt books produced for the Freetown City Council for 2012 and 2013. We gathered from the GPD that persistent...