TRACE JOENAL

It was a great moment for Trace to reach the home of the almighty Bumbuna. Indeed I was at home watching a Nigerian movie title 'True Story'. The movie itself was centred around love and how a man lost his happiness at his home but when he went to the bush to hunt animals he eventually found happiness with a female farmer. At the farm, they usually spend time telling stories through which the man eventually discovered that he eases his stress. As he got used to that he began telling lies to his wife. As that movie was played, I reflected on how life is treating people in this country and how people are unfaithful to their work and loved ones. Clearly there is light in any area where there is darkness if only we want it to happen, I said to myself. That brings to mind how it was for residents of Freetown when about five years ago Freetown was described as the darkest city in the world. Here I am to day watching movies after a stressful work. I said to myself again but on...

The Sierra Leone National Petroleum Company (NP) has recently been making waves in the corporate world as it unveiled its new logo. The new logo was designed to give the company its own image and has letters n and p in small letters and coloured green. The green colour is seen as the symbol of growth with abundance of product replenishing the vegetation that is being destroyed on a daily basis. The swoosh protruding from the top of the letters np symbolizes the dynamic nature of the business model. The swoosh can also be equated to the boldness of company’s attitude in taking business risks and the swiftness of its decision making process in order to satisfy the needs of its customers. NP business patrons are already familiar with the company’s green and yellow which are also part of the company’s inheritance. Apart from being popular colours, green and yellow are an attractive combination and easily identifiable and appealing to the eyes. The yellow colour signifies energy wh...

Sierra Leone’s biggest and finest GSM operator africell has again taken lead in awarding football fans 2,000 on-net units to enjoy the African nation’s cup tournament. Africell predict and win allows both pre-paid and post-paid subscribers to predict the winning team or draws from the football matches in the African nations cup by texting the name of the football team to 777. Draws will be conducted on radio talk shows after every match or the following day if match is played late. Africell Media Relation Supervisor TommyTerry Coker said africell deem it fit to add more value in the African Nations Cup by involving their subscribers to it. He said subscribers can make unlimited number of predictions and every correct prediction will give the subscribers a chance to qualify for the live raffle draw immediately after the match. “All predictions for the match will be 15 minutes to the end of the match,” He disclosed that during the live raffle draw at Skyy and Kallene radio station...

After stressful weeks of a seemingly fuel shortage in their towns, passengers travelling from Kabala to Freetown were left stranded at the bus station, because of the unavailability of transport. According to some of the passengers TRACE spoke to at the bus station in central Freetown, they alleged that despite their early presence at the bus station, the bus had always failed to pick them up earlier. "We have been here since 6.00 a.m. and until now there is no bus to take us to Kabala," said Foday Marah. He said at times the bus will pick passengers at 9.00 a.m. as the earliest time, by which time all other buses would have almost reached their destinations whilst they are left under the hot burning sun. This situation they went on is becoming unbearable for them as they too are working on schedules in their various places of work. They alleged that when such situation arises, the authorities failed to explain to them the cause of the delay. "Considering the dista...

One of Sierra Leone leading GSM operators Comium is gradually reaching the end of it carnival promotion. The promotion which is of total class, professionalism and innovative style has helped improve the lives of subscribers. This promotion started with an official launch on the 26th October, 2011 at the prestigious SHANGRI-LA restaurant at beach road. In that event the Managing Director of the company deliberated that subscriber’s satisfaction was his priority and encouraged Sierra Leoneans to get their money’s worth. Comium Marketing Officer who served as MC on that day John Toure reiterated that $50,000 was not a small amount and demonstrated that if exchange rates permit the lucky winner is talking about Le 225,000,000 (Two Hundred and Twenty Five Million Leones) . The launching of the Comium Carnival promotion was later transformed into float parade along the beach road, Lumley and Wilkinson road area to give subscribers the taste of the promotion. The promotion also fo...

After a successful massive cleaning, painting, planting of decorative flowers and maintenance of the road as a way of welcoming the New Year, Tengbeh Town Youth Organization has embarked on a monthly cleaning exercise to give the community a facelift. The youths were spotted over the weekend cleaning the streets of Tengbeh Town. The chairman Tengbeh Town Youth Organization Oju Moses said they decided to embark on a monthly cleaning as a way of keeping the environment free from diseases and for it to be healthy at all times. According to him they have been doing such exercise for over ten years now but at that time it was occasionally. “But now we want to do it every last Saturday in every month. It is our way of giving back to the community as youths,” he said. When asked about political backing, Mr. Moses said they have not yet received any political backing "All what we are doing is from what individuals in the community are giving us..We wrote to the politicians but t...