The Daily IIJ

The absence of defence counsel Combeh Gaye Corker on Monday 26th September deferred the proceedings of PW6 testimony. The matter was set for the defence to cross examine the six prosecution witnesses in the trial of Aboulie Bojang, Solo Manga, Buba Badjie, Bakary Jammeh and Saikou Kujabi (at large) of the Gambia Prison Services. When [...]

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Moses B Johnson Richards, a former high court judge was on Monday 19th September sentenced to two years in prison for seditious intention and six months for giving false information to a public officer by the Banjul Magistrates’ Court. Both terms of imprisonment are to run concurrently. Delivering his judgment on the case, Principal Magistrate [...]

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Monitoring the Mines Monitoring Officers is a Herculean task. For MMOs believe that it is their right not to be monitored, and they should only be the ones who should monitor. In this, they have failed to realize that they are employees. For while most are paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, there are [...]

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There was a domestic cow whose owner used to take it far out of town to a place with enough grass to feed on. He would tie the cow to a tree and leave it there for the whole day. In the evening he would come and take the cow back to town and put [...]

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There was a Nigerian poet, now dead, called Christopher Okigbo. Just before the civil war he felt disturbed by what was then an attack on freedom of speech. But Okigbo was not a man one could silence. Yet he felt so terribly oppressed by the state of affairs that he had to write: If I [...]

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The shoot-out in Koidu City was triggered by the notorious Musa Tarawally, Minister of Internal Affairs. There are several reasons for that. In the first place an official of the same government and party never travels to the district of origin of other government and party officials without informing them, even if informally. One would [...]

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Some residents of Bo City preferring anonymity are calling for a ban on all political rallies and meetings outside party offices across the country until September 2012 to prevent the diabolic scheme of some unpatriotic elements wanting nothing but a power sharing arrangement in 2012 elections. “ We taya with dis ex-combatant rally or ‘fire [...]

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It is now coming to light that the burning of houses in Bo few weeks ago was a carefully orchestrated conspiracy by Maada Bio and those in his camp. We say “those in his camp” because, let the truth be said , it is not every member of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party that is [...]

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Sources within the Sierra Leone Peoples party have told The Punch that the Executive members of the Western Regional branch of that party have taken the unanimous decision to resign en masse, beginning with Lansana fadika who resigned from his position of Chairman yesterday. According to the same sources another Executive member will resign today, [...]

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The Sierra Leone Peoples Party is under siege. The Sierra Leone Peoples Party is like an animal trapped in a cage. And like an animal trapped in a cage, it does not really understand what is happening to it. Break the barriers and get out, one form of reasoning tells it. Destroy the entire cage, [...]

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