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Those who have been accusing President Ernest Bai Koroma of regionalism are failing to look at the wider picture of his Presidency, actions, and commitment towards opening up the entire country irrespective of those regions that did not vote for him during the 2007 Presidential elections.  

The Sierra Leone Environmental Protection Agency (SLEPA) has started an awareness raising campaign on the ozone layer and its alternatives, at the Government Technical Institute (GTI), Ferry Junction. During the training of refrigerator technicians, Mr. John Solomon Kamara, Ozone Officer at SLEPA disclosed that during the 1970s, some British Scientists discovered that the ozone layer has been affected. Mr. J.S Kamara explained the important functions of the stratospheric ozone which is 25 kilometers from the surface of the earth.

The rotation of the first batch of Sierra Leone Sector Reconnaissance Company (SRC 1) serving in United Nations African Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) in Sudan will commence over the weekend at Lungi International Airport. The second batch of the Sector Recce Company (SRC 2), which comprises 130 personnel will depart for Nyala, South Darfur, on Sunday 22^nd August 2010. It would be led by Lieutenant-Colonel Alhassan Bangura. On arrival, Lt. Col. Bangura would formally take-over operational command from Lt. Col. SET Marah, who will stay with his key staff officers to complete the process.

The Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs in collaboration with UNFPA and Paramount Chiefs of Moyamba District on Friday 20^th August 2010, launched the first Strategic Community Development Initiative at the Moyamba District Council Hall.

Well, let’s face it. Before the Sierra Leone Presidential and general Election in 2007, I recall, Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma, now our president Ernest Koroma promised change, a positive attitudinal change that got the whole country singing the tune. The people fell for it, and voted for it or did they? The questionable result of that election still hovers around our village farm yards, schools, colleges, restaurants, streets, markets etc. For the average Sierra Leonean, this change has never been positively felt. Instead, they have been subjected to gross human rights abuses, including but not limited to rape, unlawful beatings of citizens by the police and some politicians, suppression of the press, unlawful arrests and detention without charge, harassment of political opponents, and the blatant interference by the executive arm of government in the affairs of the judiciary. Unemployed youth who were promised the world before the elections now face the grim realities of unemployment as the APC government fails to provide jobs for them. The scourge of disaffection is limitless.