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July 2013

Latest report reaching this press indicates that a missing container of Free Health Care Drugs has been discovered in the garage in Grafton village on the outskirts of Freetown. After interrogation by the Criminal Investigation Department

Sex related offences are unbecoming nowadays and it has become insipidious as if our laws are fast asleep. It has emerged that the penal measures that are taken against rape offenders in Sierra Leone is

Eastern Polytechnic is set to be the first university in the east of Sierra Leone, according to its acting principal, Francis G. Allieu.  (Photo:  Committee chair, Principal Francis G. Allieu on a conducted tour) He made

In a test of African harmony – beyond just unity, – this week’s Africa wide BBA eviction vote is the inter-regional popular battle you may never see again since the recent acrimonious AU inter-governmental election

Conférence Internationale sur les Hépatites states: Hepatitis B and C remain under-diagnosed and under-reported in Africa DAKAR, Sénégal, July 23, 2013/ -- From July 20 to 22, the Initiative Panafricaine de Lutte Contre les Hepatites (IPLH)

Plans are in the works for President Ernest Bai Koroma’s visit to different parts of the United States of America, when he shall have arrived in September 2013, for the United Nations General Assembly. Addressing community

The Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Works, Housing and Infrastructure has over the past weeks be engaging road construction contractors from across the country to explain their constraints and mad out possible solutions that enhances quality

The Paramount Chief of Tankoro Chief in the Kono District can now go to bed with a restful moment as the issue of solar lights that sparked lots of controversy is now laid to rest. It

Sierra Leone’s envoy to the People’s Republic of China, His Excellency Ambassador Victor Bockarie Foh recently embarked on a series of diplomatic courtesy calls to a number of African Ambassadors in China, such as the

Liverpool Football Club and Standard Chartered Bank has  announced a two year extension to their main sponsor agreement. The bank signed up as the Club’s main sponsor in July 2010, appearing on the front of the

The national conversation on the review of the 1991 constitution is about to start in earnest. Already, a wide range of ideas and proposals are being canvassed in the media by advocacy groups, party officials

The Ambassadors of Lebanon, Nidal Yahyah and the Kingdom of Morocco, Majid Halim presented their Letters of Credence to His Excellency President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma at State House on Wednesday 24th July.  (Photo: Lebanese

As the Government of the Republic of Sierra Leone and its funding partners, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are thinking about raising the sum of $4.1 million to empower the Constitutional Review Committee

Director General of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) said the recent KPMG report on his Institution was not able to capture all reality on the ground as it remains inconclusive. Elvis Gbanabom Hallowell (in photo)

Supporters of Rtd Brigadier Julius Maada Bio and supporters of Ambassador Alli Bangura were caught  in a serious confrontation and an ensuing duel that flanged residents of Wesley Street and surroundings panic stricken. Reports from our