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By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy)✍️ "It was frank, revealing, foundational and truly repentant". This was how a Civil Society advocate summed up our encounter with the Resident Minister of North East, Hon. Abu Abu on his second coming as Resident Minister. Media Junction is running on for close to five years now but since two years ago when Hon Abu Abu was appointed Resident Minister, it was only  yesterday Sunday, June 21 that he mustered courage to face the Junction. For many public figures, Media Junction is a disturbing and discomforting moment and one that literally drags public figures to a moment of moral guilt for acts of omission or Commission. The rancour and furor that characterised the suspension and reinstatement of Hon. Abu Abu were conditioned by a lot of externalities, prominent among which was the politics of "proving a point". In reality, it was less of the inappropriate statement made by the Honorable. One month suspension of a serving Minister of go...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson)                       Newly established charitable and education foundation, Child Rights and You Educational Foundation Sierra Leone has on Wednesday June 15, 2020 respectively donated assorted items to school going children in Makorombo and Kabombeh village in the Bombali District, northern part of Sierra Leone. The items donated includes, Chinese lights, batteries and lumps of soaps which are meant to help solve the light problem and hand-washing problems the beneficiaries   are faced with. In his welcome address, Albert an elderly indigene of Makoromabo village welcomed members of CRY-EFSL and all present at the donation ceremony and thus offered prayers for all and sundry. Augustine Mansaray, the Executive Secretary of Child Rights and You Educational Foundation Sierra Leone in a brief statement introduced members of the foundation and briefly stressed that the two villages, Kabom...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy)✍🏽 This is PZ area, a place where all conventional standards of behaviour and human conduct are reversed and turned upside down! Bellowing about the epicenter character of Freetown is not enough but understanding the unpardonable resistance to complying with user friendly safety protocols is key to understanding why Freetown is the epicenter for the Coronavirus pandemic. At a desparate moment, one will think Freetown is a city awaiting death. All have been provided: political will, facemasks, Veronica buckets, tonnes of anti bacterial bar and liquid soap, massive social Mobilization, unpacked institutional memory and enormous support from bilaterals and multilaterals. Yet, there are gaping gaps: the culture of denial and resistance to democratic change, the horrific search for political capital in the misery of a nation and a corresponding disengagement by notable national stakeholders. Evidently, we see an organized conversion of the call and enforcement...

The Day of The African Child has been celebrated on June 16 every year since 1991, when it was first initiated by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). It honors the memory of those who participated in the Soweto Uprisings in 1976. It also raises awareness of the continuing need for improvement of the education provided to African Children. With this backdrop, Slum Advocacy for Children, with one of it's mandates which is to provide teaching and learning materials to underprivileged children, joins other African countries to commemorate the African Child's Day with the Theme "  * Access to Child-Friendly *   * Justice *  " As a children's Advocacy Organisation, we are calling for friendly justice for all children in Sierra Leone. We are also calling on all parents and guardians living in the slum communities to look after their children during the rainy season. We are also calling all parents and guardians to make education a must for every child. ©: Slum Advoc...

10th June, 2020 Good morning everyone. Madam Chair, please permit me to stand on existing protocols. Let me start by thanking the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Ministry Information and Communications for organising this induction training for press attaches recently appointed by the Government of Sierra Leone to work in our various diplomatic missions. Today you begin your journey on a new path. You are now on the road to become Ambassadors of our country. This is a national call to service for the Government and People of Sierra Leone. It is a similar line of duty to journalism but also a very different profession. In journalism you are taught to speak truth to power, to write bluntly and most times in an abrasive manner. In your new profession you will be taught to write and talk differently. For me, today is a sad day. Sad because I will be losing all of you who are among the finest crop of journalists in the country today. However, I am heartened...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh-Jallomy ✍️ Yesterday , Sierra Leone records a thousand and one confirmed cases of COVID- 19. It was serious and descriptive of a future doom.  The structural arrangements and lined up personnel are significantly great for a reversal of the trend. Anecdotally, about 75% of the response structures and personnel are second generation combatant outfits. The IPC measures or Safety protocols introduced five years ago are largely the same as today with noted exception of the face masks and the ban on congregational prayers. The rest are the same. It is a convincing argument that we in Makeni have more face masks and Veronica buckets than the population of the city. The gap is the proper utilization of these items. We sense a broken culture of denial and resistance to change. Worst to note is the existence of a group of Sierra Leoneans wanting to Makeni political capital out of a horrendous national crisis. Equally disturbing is the disengagement of key national stakeholders...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh-Jallomy ✍️Ar Yesterday , Sierra Leone records a thousand and one confirmed cases of COVID- 19. It was serious and descriptive of a future doom.  The structural arrangements and lined up personnel are significantly great for a reversal of the trend. Anecdotally, about 75% of the response structures and personnel are second generation combatant outfits. The IPC measures or Safety protocols introduced five years ago are largely the same as today with noted exception of the face masks and the ban on congregational prayers. The rest are the same. It is a convincing argument that we in Makeni have more face masks and Veronica buckets than the population of the city. The gap is the proper utilization of these items. We sense a broken culture of denial and resistance to change. Worst to note is the existence of a group of Sierra Leoneans wanting to Makeni political capital out of a horrendous national crisis. Equally disturbing is the disengagement of key national stakeholde...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh - Jallomy ✍️ The Ebola virus ended about five years ago. It was a moment of agony with undescribable loss to Sierra Leone. As we counted the loss, we noted very useful lessons learned. One of such lessons is the the effectiveness of the weapon of resilience. Another lesson is the culture of standing together and fighting together in the face of the common enemy. Whenever Sierra Leone is in lethal crisis, the citizens will disengage from predatory tribal, regional and Political ties and submit to the national cause.  Today, the Coronavirus is here with shocking outcomes. The entire response efforts are benefiting from from an abundant political will, a reliable and tested instutional memory, a conspicuous national mindset in fighting viral diseases, a responsive international development partners' network and inherited response structures from the predecessor of the Coronavirus, the Ebola. On the flip side, we stand to lose on account of the insatiability of a gro...

By Amin Kef Sesay – Ranger✍️ Pavi Fort –Sierra Leone, the country’s leading indigenous road construction company, has on Friday 5th June 2020 donated a huge  consignment of hand sanitizers, five thousand clinical face masks, 50bags of rice and a cheque of ten million Leones (Le10, 000,000) to the District Emergency Operation Centre (DECOVERC) in Bonthe District.  The gesture of donating the aforementioned materialized out of the patriotic passion of the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Alimou Sanu Barrie, to give support to the Government during these crucial moments when dogged efforts are been made to combat the spread of the coronavirus which is maliciously capable to wreck economies.   Presenting the items to officials of DECOVERC in the Bonthe District, CEO Alimou Sanu Barrie expressed profound appreciation for the consistent and impressive efforts they have been directing towards scaling up the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in that part of the country. He added that as a ...

#Journalismcanneverbesilent👇 Our National Association for Journalists clocks 49years since it was established on 5th June 1971🗣️📻📺✍️ #HappyBirthdaySLAJ🎂🥂🎶