- During the 60’s right up to the 70’s, Freetown used to enjoy beautiful mountains covered with lush green vegetation. The lushness of the vegetation used to cover the top right down to the foot of the mountains. But today, that once beautiful scenery enjoyed by many Freetonians has been desecrated as a result of indiscriminate human activities like the building of houses, cutting down of trees for fuel and other economic reasons. Today, environmentalists all over the world are worried about this great lose of our natural vegetation and the unceasing climatic change that have apparently led to poor yield in agricultural production, increasing temperature, increasing in sea…

- In Chinua Achebe’s award winning short story, ‘Surviving The Peace’, a man who has been able to survive the war, dodging government troops and rebel forces and even keeping his old Flying Pigeon bicycle intact by burying it behind his hut where it remained till the end of hostilities, is nearly killed when armed robbers attack his home, demanding that he handover the ‘akara’ money he had been collecting. In Achebe’s story, a lot of people were not so lucky to survive the peace as they were gunned down by armed robbers, by disgruntled and traumatized ex-combatants and by the police who are supposed to protect their lives and property. All these events…

- [justify]Since its launch, the ZAP service from Zain Sierra Leone has got a commanding and more convenient way of doing business in Sierra Leone. This has been evident in the payment for utilities like fuel through virtual money from Zap. To date, there are over 30,000 active subscribers using the service. The Zap service represents the most comprehensive mobile banking service and is set to provide millions of people without bank accounts to banking services for the very first time. ZAP is a new mobile money service, providing a fast, safe and affordable way to transfer and receive money and also to pay for utilities using your phone. With ZAP, the following positive objectives are fulf…