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By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy) : +232 76 865510 William Shakespeare was an excellent literary scholar. His writings are all graded as classics of unimaginable proportion. Lessons of life can be always drawn from the literary works of William Shakespeare. His in-depth understanding of the human being and the human condition was and is still unrivalled.  One of Shakespeare’s best examples of a dark tragic narrative is his book titled “Macbeth”. “Macbeth”, among others, has the recurring theme of guilt. Macbeth was a great general whose vaulting ambition caused him to murder King Duncan for him to ascend the throne. He succeeded in murdering King Duncan with the active connivance of his wife, Lady Macbeth. The rest was the catastrophic fall and eventual death of Macbeth. The moral is that uncontrolled and unbridled ambition is a pathway to tragic end and damnation. The concluding Commissions of Inquiry are a replicated symbol of the “Mouse Trap” as used in “Macbeth” to catch the conscienc...

By: Hawa Dauda Mohamed Bailor Barrie, popularly known as MB Salone is a Sierra Leonean music producer and audio engineer. MB Salone was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone and is from the Fula people of Sierra Leone/Guinea. He was born during the war over blood diamonds. At age 2 he had to undergo surgery to reconstruct his face after an accident where he fell 3 stories through a flight of stairs. At age 6, together with his sister, they were almost abducted by the rebel forces as child soldiers. He left Sierra Leone for the United States to seek refuge, as an undocumented refugee and moved to Jacksonville where he joined the United States education system. He performed poorly in school failing multiple times. He would get in trouble at times for distractions, clowning & terrible grades. In 7th grade His interest in music was establishing roots and by 2007, when still in Wolfson High School in Jacksonville Florida he was making R&B and Trap beats. Music production was unfortunately ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson) Following their long silence, since 2010, Abubakarr Kargbo alias Anderson and Andrew Gborie alias Defender all of the A2Family musical group has break the long silence with their new song title: VAR which was released on Tuesday 13th January 2019. The two singers who settled their scores in December, last year, had their first studio session after their revival earlier this month and wasted no time but have offered their fans and other music followers a commentary song loaded with rhymes and other lyrical ingredients to spice them up at their homes, in their cars, at nightclubs and other public entertainment centers will listening and dancing to their new song. The Kissy Ebo Town, Freetown based singers released their first two songs: (“Lef Bad Heart and Fool Lulu”), as a group in 2010, and laid their mark musically, no doubt the people of Kissy were cheering them up. Speaking to Northern Times, the leading vocalist of A2Family, Abubakarr Kargbo, ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson) Makeni based musician, Fransic S. Kamara, who’s popularly known by stage name “FSK D’Moving Train” has issued a stern warning to new school Rappers in his latest track title: “4 D Fit Eye” that was released earlier this week. Tee Mello, produced the tune and the one time leading vocalist of the FSK & Melody group, who is now the CEO of All Tribes Movement (ATM) wasted no time to put words together to indirectly reply to a recent Hip Hop revival challenge led by one of the finest musical gem in the country Augustine Jay Tee. In less than two weeks when JayTee through the beef challenge, it has caught the minds of music followers that have gingered up other musicians in the Makeni municipality to reply to his Beef. Like never before, Makeni and some part of  the North is now experiencing a hurtles Beef Mic Battle between and among top Rappers and new school Rappers such as Biggy D’King, Governor Blaq, VeePee, Sabi Success, and flow King, all fle...

By: Sahr J. Bangah At a jam-packed court yesterday presided over by magistrate Peter Brima Gogra, the accused Ibrahim Mansaray, aged nineteen (19) years old was arraigned before him for the offence of Larceny, Unlawful Possession and Receiving contrary to law. According to the complainant, Zakaria Bangura, he informed the court that on the 5th January 2020 at IDA quarters along Teko road in Makeni, he saw three unidentified persons including the accused who was climbing a solar light pole and immediately he decided to come to the scene of crime to known what the accused persons were doing at the street solar light panel. He continued that immediately he approached the scene, he saw the three unidentified men running away and when he pointed his touch light at the street pole he saw Ibrahim Mansaray now accused removing the street solar light battery. He concluded that he shouted at the accused Ibrahim Mansaray who had no alternative but to jump and wanted to go in to thin air when he g...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-WILSON) The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Schools Education (MBSSE), Bombali District’s Physical and Health Education Department has confirmed 23 and 24 January 2020, as the dates to climaxed its much awaited Volleyball and Football finals for the 2019/2020 academic year. Makeni Wusum mini stadium and the Headquarters of the 4th Brigade, Teko Barracks mini stadium has been confirmed as the two venues where the finals will be played from.  The Makeni Wusum mini stadium has an artificial turf and can seats about 10,000 spectators whilst the Teko Mini stadium has one amongst the best volleyball court in the district that can seats about 3,000 spectators. On Thursday, 23rd January 2020, Saint Francis will open the campaign in the volleyball finals against the tournament’s top side, Sylvanus Municipal Secondary School in the Boys category at the 4th Infantry Brigade Headquarters, Teko Barracks mini stadium. Whilst Makeni Comprehensive Academy will battle it ...

By: Abdulai Mansaray Long after President Maada Bio, his SLPP Party and government would have vacated the seat of power, historians would go to work; and his government would be remembered for many things.   His government would be remembered as one that took the reigns of power from an APC party, and boldly declared that it inherited near empty coffers. It will be remembered as the party that took an oath and swore blind to fight and rid the country of corruption.  Among other things like strengthening the muscle of the ACC and conceiving the birth of another Commission of Inquiry, plugging the leakages has since become the trademark of his tenure.  Fighting corruption, especially in the context of an African country; where corruption is so entrenched that any attempt to fight against it may appear a treasonable offence, is a tough ask.  It is therefore not surprising that Bio’s pledge to fight corruption has placed his government under more scrutiny than ever.  No one is pretending t...