Mission

“HIGH WE EXALT THEE, REALM OF THE FREE, GREAT IS THE LOVE WE HAVE FOR THEE, FIRMLY UNITED…,” is the opening stanza of Sierra Leone’s National Anthem. It epitomises the direction the Organiser newspaper publication will take in the years ahead. Abu Shaw, the Founder, Proprietor, Publisher, Editor, and CEO publishes the Organiser in London. I set this news website up following many years of identifying the missing links in the Sierra Leone media. It is the forerunner of the defunct Freetown Daily News and Press United newspapers. Our correspondents are based in the four regions of Sierra Leone and will bring you exclusive stories from your towns and villages. Our online publication is our priority at the moment, the first step towards the resumption of a hard copy newspaper printing that will soon hit the newsstands in Sierra Leone and around the world.

 

CORPORATE VALUES

 

The corporate values of the Organiser newspaper are the Holy Grail of its operations. It mirrors journalistic values i.e. press freedom, objective reporting, and above all seeking the interests of the people and country above all else in its 24/7 news coverage.

 

PRESS FREEDOM

 

The independence of the Organiser is our topmost priority. We owe an obligation to the people of Sierra Leone and international partners. As an independent media organisation, the Organiser will uphold the tenets of journalism without fear or favour. Many Sierra Leone media houses continue to publish very good stories that are badly told and poorly written and often times one-sided. The good news is that the Organiser is here to stay to make a real difference in the journalism profession. Sierra Leone has been lagging for years in the search of true press freedom and the democratic rights of media houses and practitioners. This is because the 1965 Criminal Libel Law, which has turned out to be the most draconian press law in the country, continues to hamper press freedom in Sierra Leone.

 

DEDICATED TO LATE JOURNALISTS ALPHA SHAW, CONRAD ROY, ALIE-WYSE, AND OTHERS

 

I wholeheartedly dedicated the Organiser newspaper to the loving memories of all true journalists past and present in Sierra Leone and around the world. Special tributes go to my late elder brother and tutor Mr. Alpha Shaw. My late colleagues Conrad Roy, Alie-Wyse Koroma, and Alpha Wurie Jalloh of Expo Times fame. Their spirits have a special place in the Organiser’s heart newspaper. They lost their precious lives in the fight for press freedom in Sierra Leone. Late Alpha Shaw, the elder brother of editor Abu Shaw and the pioneer of journalism in the Shaw family in Kenema, was one of the most brilliant journalists of his generation. His visionary write-ups and oratory skills still linger in the minds of those who knew him personally. He wrote many patriotic articles for the radical Tablet newspaper, the Progress newspaper, and many others in Sierra Leone. He died at the tender age of 22 at the Connaught Hospital in Freetown on the 17th of July 1980, a few days after the OAU conference in Freetown. His sudden death was a real shock to the Shaw family in Kenema and throughout the country. Ahmadiyya Secondary School in Freetown was particularly shocked as he died whilst waiting for his GCE A-Level results. This is Alpha Shaw’s most famous speech: “A man, who is ignorant of the society in which he lives, who knows nothing of its place in the world and who has not thought about his own place in it, is not a free man even though he has a vote.” Brother Alpha Shaw was the pioneer and embodiment of the spirit of journalism which continues to flow in the bloodstream of the Shaw family in Kenema. Colleague Conrad Roy was the News Editor of the Expo Times newspaper from 1995 to 1998 until he and Abu Shaw (then Production Manager of Expo Times) were arbitrarily arrested and detained at Pademba Road Prisons. Conrad lost his life in jail under the barbaric Tejan Kabbah and Solomon Berewa SLPP government. The Tejan Cole Commission of Inquiry luckily freed Abu Shaw in late 1998. Colleague Alie Wyse-Koroma was a Senior Staff Reporter of the Expo Times newspaper. He too lost his life in mysterious circumstances in Freetown during the war. They murdered cub Reporter Alpha Wurie Jalloh of Expo Times fame in Freetown in 1998. May the blessings of God continue to shine on these great colleagues. Amen.

 

WELCOME TO THE ORGANISER!

 

Very few Sierra Leone media outlets give a truthful picture of what is really happening in the country. The Organiser believes we must stamp this journalistic disservice out for good. Our modus operandi will be to report stories hitherto unreported in Sierra Leone. We promise all Sierra Leoneans at home and in the diaspora that the Organiser will bring stories from their towns and villages to solve their nostalgic feelings. The Organiser welcomes all stakeholders to its online edition and subsequent publications.

 

EDITOR’S NOTE:

 

I denounced the membership of my previous party the All Peoples Congress APC (December 2016- December 2017) because of rife corruption embedded in Ernest Koroma’s government. Before joining the APC, I was a member of the Alie Kabba – UK/I SLPP party from mid-2015 to 2016, before I resigned because of Alie Kabba’s dictatorial policies. Then on January 13, 2018, I became an active member of the National Grand Coalition (NGC) in Sierra Leone. Later, I became a passive supporter of the NGC. I finally quit the NGC for the double standard attitude of the NGC Leader Dr Kandeh Yumkella. In December 2021, I rejoined the APC party. But my overall ambition is to support the development of my country Sierra Leone. Party membership is not my priority. I am also a proud member of the Conservative Tory Party in the UK. Thank you. My newspaper will do everything possible through honest editorials and commentaries to help promote national development, fight corruption in the interests of all Sierra Leoneans. Thanks, Abu Shaw, editor/publisher.

Latest News

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By Abu Shaw in London

(18/03/2024)

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By a press release

(18/03/2024)

Popular Sierra Leone politician and business tycoon Money Jagaban has continued to dish out financial itemised support to Sierra Leoneans.

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By a press release

(18/03/2024)

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, tells the Russian people to “be brave” after casting her vote in the presidential elections.

As Misery and Despair Stalk the Conservative Party, Talk of Changing Leader Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is Getting Louder

By a press release

(18/03/2024)

Previously the Conservative party thought changing leadership of the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak before an election would be ridiculous – but the dial is shifting.

Military Wing of Save Democracy Warns: “If Recommendations by Tripartite Do Not Favour Voters, We Will Wage War on Maada”

By Abu Shaw London

(15/03/2024)

The military wing of Save Democracy, the new nationalist pressure group, has warned all stakeholders that a new war will emerge if Tripartite fails the people.

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