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Entries from January 2011

Newsroom Blunder

January 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment

My life as a Sub-Editor was quite good. Shift-wise duty was suitable for me to continue my university studies. But from last year when I started reporting, there is a specific office time table but no break from work. For our online readers and to offer upadted information to the readers of print edition of [...]

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Tags: Newsroom Diary

India to intensify fight against terrorism

January 26th, 2011 · No Comments

Describing terrorism as one which “poses the single most detrimental threat to the progress of humankind”, President Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil of India said New Delhi is best positioned to intensify efforts at clamping down on terrorism.

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Tags: Political reporting

In search of death

January 24th, 2011 · 1 Comment

As I was feeling unwell today, I passed almost the morning and noon at my house. But I was reading reports in different sites at online. After my lunch, I received a phone call from my Chief Reporter. What he had told me was sad as information but good for news. The report of 70 [...]

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Tags: Newsroom Diary · Online Journalism

Gambia Gov’t Recognised PAG’s Peace Making Efforts

January 24th, 2011 · No Comments

The Government of The Gambia has recognised the important role the Peace Ambassadors The Gambia (PAG) is playing in ensuring durable peace, security, and youth development,” said the Gambian Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr. Sheriff M.L Gomez. The statement was delivered on his behalf by the deputy director of Youth and Sports, Mr. Sutay [...]

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Tags: Sneak In

Sierra Leone at 50: to celebrate or not to celebrate

January 22nd, 2011 · No Comments

Ishmael Kindama Dumbuya In April 27th this year, Sierra Leoneans will celebrate their fifty years of independence (candidly I don’t normally like to call it independence) in the country. To mark this celebration, the president of Sierra Leone had set up a committee to celebrate what they called golden jubilee. The committee for the golden [...]

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Sierra Leone UK teacher donate core books to Freetown City Council

January 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment

  Ishmael Kindama Dumbuya The efforts of many Sierra Leoneans in the Diaspora are beginning to surface in the country. Most of them who had left the country to seek greener pastures are beginning to show that Sierra Leone is their mother land and what ever ideas and small resources they receive outside must be [...]

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US$48,000 Obama wrist-watch sparks outrage in Ghana

January 21st, 2011 · No Comments

A US$48,000 Backes and Strauss watch reportedly presented to Michelle Obama by wife of Ghana’s President John Evans Attah Mills -during the American first couple’s visit to Ghana in July 2009- has sparked a nationwide public outrage.

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Extensive Dialogue Among Education Stakeholders Advocated

January 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment

THE VICE Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has indicated that even though funding for education has been a contentious issue, a healthy balance among individuals, community, private and the state should be considered. Read more on www.nayank80.blogspot.com

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National Security Operative Busted For Document Fraud

January 21st, 2011 · No Comments

A FORMER National Security operative, Roy Dorkenu, 32, has been handed over to the Documentation and Visa Fraud Section of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Headquarters, by the US Embassy in Accra. Read more on www.nayank80.blogspot.com

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MTTU Needs 5000 Personnel To Eradicate Road Accidents

January 21st, 2011 · No Comments

THE POLICE Administration’s inability to tackle the ever increasing bloodshed on the country’s roads has been attributed to the small number of police personnel manning the road networks. Read more on www.nayank80.blogspot.com

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Tags: Environment