The www.theorganiser.net newspaper is a Sierra Leone publication launched May 16, 2015, in London. It is the forerunner of the defunct Freetown Daily News established in 2008 and subsequently the Press United newspaper founded in 2010.

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The Organiser newspaper publishes opinions, commentaries, and analyses submitted by readers that do not reflect the editorial policy of this newspaper. Therefore, the Organiser newspaper will not be legally liable for such articles. All readers who want to discount claims and views published here should write and share their own counter-views. Thank you for your custom. Abu Bakar Shaw, commonly known as Abu Shaw, holds a Master of Science degree in Corporate Communications and a Bachelor of Arts degree in New Media Journalism with Law, both from Thames Valley University, now the University of West London. Abu Shaw started his journalism profession as a budding sports reporter in 1989 in the West African state of Liberia. He has many Journalism Certificates under his belt. His first Diploma was in Monrovia from the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) in association with the African American Institute in 1993. In Liberia in 1989, Abu Shaw was Sports Reporter for the reputable Sporting Life newspaper and later as a Political Reporter for the Monrovia Daily News MDN newspaper in 1992.

In Freetown, the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists SLAJ in collaboration with the Wales-based Thomson Foundation conferred on Abu Shaw a Journalism Diploma in 1996. Then he took the role of Production and Business Manager of Sierra Leone’s best-selling and award-winning newspaper, the Expo Times from 1995 to 1998. Then disaster struck in early 1998 during the ECOMOG military intervention. ECOMOG soldiers who had arrested Abu Shaw and the Expo Times News Editor Mr Conrad Roy just reinstated the SLPP government of Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. Expo Times newspaper was openly advocating for dialogue to settle the conflict rather than adopt military options. But the SLPP warmongers wanted military intervention to oust the AFRC junta, a costly solution that eventually claimed the lives of thousands of innocent Sierra Leoneans and the destruction of countless properties. In the melee, Abu Shaw and Conrad Roy were arrested and detained at the notorious Pademba Road Prison throughout 1998 and ridiculously charged with collaboration and treason, respectively. Conrad Roy (RIP) unfortunately died in prison but Abu was lucky to be released by the Tejan Cole Commission of Inquiry in December 1998 Freetown after 10 months behind bars.

Abu fled Sierra Leone on December 24, 1998, for his own safety. The rest, they say, is history. From 2005 to 2007, he was the London Correspondent for Canada-based Patriotic Vanguard news website. Back in Sierra Leone in 2011, Abu Shaw became the Editor of Sierra Leone’s best-selling and widely read Awareness Times newspaper. Currently, Abu is the Founder, Editor, and Publisher of the Sierra Leone newspaper www.theorganiser.net in London. Launched on May 16, 2015, the Organiser newspaper is the forerunner of the now-defunct Freetown Daily News established in 2008 and subsequently the Press United newspaper founded in 2010. Also, in March 2018, Abu Shaw began a live weekly African television broadcast on GNTV UK to review daily UK newspapers as well as analyse the latest news across Africa and the world. The GNTV UK ‘Talk Africa’ programme was on SKY TV channel 182 and on Free View TV channel 168 and also on Facebook. The GNTV Talk Africa morning show is off the air because of management issues but the replay versions of old footage are still screened on SKY 182 channel every week.

Abu Shaw has also been a guest of the Allied Broadcasting Network ABN radio in London every Wednesday night. The ABN Kiki Chat Show looks at various topics of public interest for discussion. He was born on 2nd December 1962, in Kenema, the eastern province of Sierra Leone. Had his primary and secondary education at Saint Charles Lwanga Primary School and the Government Secondary School in Kenema, respectively. And also briefly attended the Koyeima Government Secondary School in Bo District, south of Sierra Leone. Abu is presently a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the United Kingdom. Politically, Abu Shaw is a proud member of the ruling Conservative Party in Britain. In Sierra Leone politics, he was initially a member of the APC party but had to quit because of corruption in the last government. Abu later joined the SLPP party for Alie Kabba’s sake but he immediately regretted his action and quit because of Alie Kabba’s dictatorship. Abu’s last party was the NGC but had to leave because of the double standard exhibited by the NGC Leader Dr Kandeh Yumkella who is suspected of being a secret member of the ruling SLPP party. Abu Shaw has proudly rejoined the mighty APC Party in December 2021.