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By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone The ruling All People’s Congress (APC) party-led government of President Ernest Bai Koroma, has been accused of spending the total sum Le1,500,000,000 ($20,000usd) on paddle parade that took place in Freetown on Saturday, October 28, 2017. Sierra Leone is currently under economic austerity due to dwindling situation of the economy. The “East End Paddle” is a popular masquerade owned by residents in the east end of Freetown, Sierra Leone. The masquerade parade is organized on Eid-ul-Adha, a Muslim holiday which comes up every year. People in the Diaspora normally come to Freetown…

By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone A Lecturer at the Fourah Bay College (FBC) of the University of Sierra Leone (USL), Mr. Teddy Foday-Musa is eyeing the parliamentary seat for Constituency 81 under the ticket of the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP). He says he would transform his constituency into a hub of development if he is awarded the party symbol and subsequently win the March 7, 2018 parliamentary election. Constituency 81 used to be Constituency 73 prior to the boundary delimitation and redistricting process, and is situated in Bo District, southern Sierra Leone. Mr. Foday-Musa…

By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone Politics is taking a dramatic shape in Sierra Leone as the country braces for the general and presidential elections next March. The under-currents are moving too fast, strange bed fellows and likely minded politicians are joining forces and cultivating new paradigm of alliances to unseat the ruling All People’s Congress. As Joseph S. Margai reports from Freetown, Sierra Leone, another two opposition politicians pulling their resources and forming a coalition. Sierra Leoneans are preparing for the general elections slated for March 7, 2018. The power of the people is in their votes,…

By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor in Monrovia The Standard-bearer of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), Sen. George M. Weah, has told his supporters, friends, sympathizers and partisans that they should be prepared to protect their votes at the November 7th Presidential run-off election. Speaking to thousands of supporters of Movement for Democracy and Reconstruction (MDR) and the CDC in the commercial city of Ganta, Nimba County, Weah said that the CDCians are prepared to take charge of their votes, but Sen. Weah failed to state how the process of protecting their votes would be done. The CDC strongman, whose…

By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor in Monrovia Senator Prince Y. Johnson seems to give a damn about his critics over the endorsement of Sen. George M. Weah for President of the Republic of Liberia. The Nimba senior senator says, “To hell with them…” while responding to his critics. Johnson, Standard-bearer of the Movement for Democracy and Reconstruction, told his critics to go to hell and tell the devil he sends them to hell for criticizing his recent decision to endorse the Coalition for Democratic Change ahead of Unity Party Standard-bearer, Vice President Joseph Nyuma Boakai in the November 7, Presidential…

By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor in Monrovia Three political parties that participated in the Liberian presidential and representatives elections say the National Elections Commission (NEC) and the President of Liberia, Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf have lost their credibility during these elections. The National Chairman of the governing Unity Party along with the opposition Liberty Party and the All Liberian Party said President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the board of commissioners of the National Elections Commission head by Chairman Jerome George Korkoya have also lost public confidence. Unity Party Chairman Wilmot Paye stated that the National Elections Commission cannot conduct any…

By Joseph S. Margai The Groove 106FM has learnt that the Sierra Leonean Minister of Information and Communications, Mohamed Bangura, has been barred from partaking in public discussion on behalf of government because of his encounter with Sierra Leone People’s Party’s (SLPP) Jacob Jusu (JJ) Saffa in recent Radio Democracy’s “Gud Monin Salone” program. According to our sources, the government accused Mr. Bangura of being unable to articulate the issues of government very well as he allowed the opposition party representative to ridicule him and by extension the ruling All People’s Congress (APC)-government on public media. JJ Saffa had claimed…

By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone As Sierra Leone edges closer to the March 7, 2018 multitier elections, the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) continues to lose prominent senior officials to other political parties. The latest high profile member who left the Party is the erstwhile standard-bearer aspirant, Andrew K. Keili, who did not only resign, but also accused the Party of “constitutional violations and thuggery.” Mr. Keili has already formerly joined the National Grand Coalition (NGC), a new political party that is attracting huge influx from other political parties, especially the ruling SLPP. Few months…

By Prince Wonplu in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County Three children are reported dead in a fire incident that gutted a house at New York Street in Buchanan City, Grand Bassa County. The incident took place on October 25, 2017. The identities of the children are still unknown, but eyewitnesses said their ages are one year, four years and five years old. Eyewitnesses told Groove 106FM that the fire broke out late Wednesday night from one of the eight rooms in the house. The fire quickly spread to the remaining parts of the building. There was no fire fighters available to…

By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone A source within the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST), has disclosed to that the 39-60% payment of fees subsidy for university students in Sierra Leone by the government will be concluded some time in 2018. However, our source revealed that the 39-60% fees for university students would be replaced with a “students loaning scheme” where government would send the 39-60% fees to stipulated commercial banks where students would access them and pay after they get job at the end of their university education. According to sources, commercial banks would have…