The News Review:

- European Union Donates 43 Bikes to Ministry of Health Sierra Leone
- SLPP Supporters React to Offer from Victor Foh in Sierra Leone
- Nigeria: Yar’Adua – the Reformist Within

European Union Donates 43 Bikes to Ministry of Health Sierra Leone
Awareness Times – Oct 30, 2007
The bikes, handed over to officials of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation in Freetown Saturday under the EU-funded Health Sector Support Project (HSSP), aimed at strengthen the primary health care delivery system in Sierra Leone. Making the donation, EU’s Country Representative Bockarie Med Conteh said Sierra Leone had the worst health indicators under the UNDP’s annual Human Development Index report. He said the gesture would facilitate the mobility of the health care delivery personnel to people in the rural areas of Sierra Leone. The EU official announced plans by the EU Commission to construct a quality control laboratory for the Central Medical Stores as well as provide more peripheral units countrywide.

SLPP Supporters React to Offer from Victor Foh in Sierra Leone
Awareness Times – Oct 30, 2007
I have the strongest conviction also that the author meant to further expose and ridicule a popular corrupt politician and opportunist – Victor High Barb Foh, whose presence in the new APC is not only an embarrassment but a bitter reminder of three decades of mismanagement, corruption, gross violations of human and peoples rights that triggered the eleven-year brutal war which set Sierra Leone 50 years backwards. Victor Foh is a mere joker. Take a look at few of his utterances in that Lungi chat with Awareness Times: ” Given a serious thought” to appeals from what he claims to be “the majority of Sierra Leoneans”.

Nigeria: Yar’Adua – the Reformist Within
AllAfrica.com – Oct 30, 2007
In Nigeria, the transition from one civilian regime to another has always been shrouded in controversy. As a big brother, Nigeria's actions are worthy of emulation. If we could restore peace, stability and a solid democratic foundation in war-torn Sierra Leone, why must we fail in organising fair elections at home? It took Sierra Leone ten years of civil war and finally with the intervention of ECOWAS and Nigeria in particular, peace was returned. As normalcy returned, a democratisation process evolved which was nurtured and monitored by Nigeria. Elections were organised, acclaimed to be free and fair and Tejan Kabbah was returned as the democratically-elected president. At the end of his tenure in office as stipulated in the constitution, another round of elections ensued a couple of months back, which was keenly contested. Afterwards, Mr Alex Bai Koroma of the opposition party was returned as the winner…
At the end of his tenure in office as stipulated in the constitution, another round of elections ensued a couple of months back, which was keenly contested. Afterwards, Mr Alex Bai Koroma of the opposition party was returned as the winner. The people of Sierra Leone had learned from the bitter experiences of their history. Relevant Links West AfricaNigeria In our context, President Yar'Adua may be the real reformist Nigeria has been longing to have. If history is anything to go by, after every century, Nigeria has been witnessing major socio-political changes. At least, we have witnessed this in the last two centuries. In 1804 to 1806, there was the Sokoto Jihad that gave pious political leadership to the Sokoto Caliphate, present-day Northern Nigeria and beyond.