When I established this newspaper, the Patriotic Vanguard, in July 2005, I was worried about one main thing and that was whether I could find many Sierra (...)
During my student days at FBC, University of Sierra Leone (late 70s and early 80s), the "African Revolution" was at its peak, with Ahmed Sekou Toure (...)
As we Sierra Leoneans celebrate our country’s independence from Great Britain today, April 27th (Canadian time), we should never make the mistake of (...)
A news item that caught my attention recently is the one that says the Sierra Leone government is thinking of providing the modalities for Sierra Leoneans (...)
There has recently been a rash of indictments of formerly well respected and usually highly educated Sierra Leoneans by the country’s Anti-Corruption (...)
By Gibril Gbanabome Koroma, CEO/Publisher. Dear reader, supporter and patron, The Patriotic Vanguard, Sierra Leone’s most professional and most (...)
"Hello, Mr. Publisher! How are you today?" Those were the words of the late Sierra Leonean lawyer Mohamed Sadu Bah whenever he called me from his home (...)
The West African country of Cote d’ivoire, whose capital, Abdijan, was once the Petit Paris of Africa, is agin heading to what looks like all out war as the (...)
It seems to me the profession of journalism has gone bananas in Sierra Leone. Things were bad when I was there but what is happening now is far worse, it’s (...)
What’s a thug? What do we mean when we talk about a thug in Sierra Leone politics and the Sierra Leone media? A basic dictionary definition says a thug (...)
One thing I find a bit baffling is the tendency of Sierra Leonean politicians, civil society activists and other movers and shakers in the country to run, (...)
I have been closely monitoring the elections in Sierra Leone’s neighbour, Guinea-Conakry, for several weeks now leading to Monday’s declaration of the (...)
