PPRC to popularize 2012 elections through the media

By Zainab Kanu

The Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) is set to go on a popularisation drive of the presidential and general elections in November, 2012.

During a media stakeholders meeting yesterday at the PPRC headquarters at OAU Drive, Tower Hill, Freetown, the Acting Registrar of PPRC, Moses Senesie, revealed that they held [...]

PPRC observes apathy from registered voters

 

By Zainab Kanu

The Political Party Registration Commission (PPRC) has observed that a good number of Sierra Leoneans in the Western Rural and Urban areas have refused to come forward and collect their voter ID Cards as the voter registration exhibition process came to an end yesterday.

According to Outreach Officer of PPRC, Lucien [...]

PPRC raps election stakeholders today

PPRC Registrar, Ibrahim John

PPRC Registrar, Ibrahim John

In collaboration with the United Nation Peace Building Office (UNIPSIL) the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) will today kick start a two day stakeholders’ conference at the Bintumani Hotel, at Aberdeen in Freetown.

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PPRC braces up for 2012

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By Zainab Kanu

The Registrar of the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC), has said that they have started preparations for the Presidential, parliamentary and local council elections slated to take place on Sunday, November17, next year.

In an interview with this paper at his Tower Hill office in Freetown, yesterday, Mr. Abraham John explained [...]

MY VIEW: CALLS FOR LIFTING OF BAN ON PROCESSIONS INTENSIFY

Theo Nicol

Theo Nicol

The calls for the lifting of the ban on political processions by the police intensifies as the SLPP women, and before them Article 19, call on government to prevail on the police for the ban to be lifted.

I supported the ban when it was imposed because it was the right thing [...]

Political Activities Take Center Stage without PPRC Whistle

Theo Nicol

by Theo Nicol

Last Saturday has proved to all of us that we do not necessarily need the PPRC, who are the legal body with such a mandate, to blow the whistle before election campaigns start.

From my office at Siaka Stevens Street, I watched the rally the SLPP had to usher in campaigns [...]

My View: Politics is not a Do or Die Affair

The Road To State House Is not Paved With Gold

By Theo Nicol

In the next ten or so months, we shall be electing our leaders again just like we did some four years ago.

Officially, we are waiting for the PPRC to declare the start of the activities that will lead to the election. [...]