Politicotorial

Season’s Greetings to all our readers and advertisers! Thanks for standing by us through the difficulties that the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia - Ukraine war brought upon us. We hope 2024 will be a much better and more progressive year than 2023.

Season’s Greetings to all our avid readers and advertisers! Thanks for standing by us through the difficulties that the COVID-19 pandemic brought forth upon us in 2021. We hope 2022 will be a much better and more progressive year than 2021 has been.

Happy New Year to you! We hope 2021 will be a much better and more progressive year than 2020 was. That was a year which we would love to forget but impossible to forget. It was, by far, the worst the world has seen certainly in our lifetime.

For us at FreeMedia Group (the publishers of Politico Newspaper) the year was very challenging like it was for all other media outlets. Advertising was few and far between, sales dropped considerably, while production costs increased exponentially with some suppliers using Covid19 as a fig leaf for their price increases.

It has come to our attention that a certain individual calling themselves POLITICO is writing on social media – notably on WhatsApp – and copyrighting as such. We have seen a few of their writings.

We wish to state it categorically that Politico Newspaper has nothing whatsoever to do with the said individual or individuals.

Some of you will notice in this edition that we have republished some of our stories and articles from our Monday 18 May edition.

We had to do this after realizing that only a few copies of that edition reached our target audience.

Feedback from the market and our general readership indicated that some unscrupulous individual or group of individuals went out of their way to ensure that the edition didn’t reach the public for reasons best known to them.

n 2011, Politico Newspaper hit the newsstands for the first time. That day marked the partial fulfilment of a decade-long dream and actual efforts by a group of concerned Sierra Leonean media practitioners who were concerned about the general quality of journalism and the socioeconomic situation of ordinary Sierra Leoneans and wanted to use the media to try to turn things around.

Greetings! In the first place we apologise for being away from the news-stands for this long. Precisely four months nineteen days since we last published on 2 September this year, we are out again.

Secondly, we must register our appreciation for the deluge of calls and messages from concerned friends.All of you genuinely wanted to know what happened to the publication. We feel cared for.