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April 2018

Democracy is the government of the people, for the people and by the people. It also has principles in ensuring that it is not only the rule of the majority but as well as the

On April 27, Sierra Leone as a nation turns 57. Celebrations across the country to mark Independence Day have become a usual tradition. There is nothing bad with fellow Sierra Leoneans celebrating Independence. After all,

23rd April, 2018   The President, Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) Campbell Street Freetown, Sierra Leone Dear Sir, Report of Attack and threatening language by SLPP supporters on Sierra Express Media (SEM) I write to refer you to an attack and threatening language

Rt. Hon. SBB Dumbuya is the Current Speaker of Parliament [Section 79 (4c) of the 1991 Constitution], and he is Head of the Legislature (Parliament) Members of Parliament ( Not MP-Elect) SHALL Elect a Speaker. [79(1)

High Court of Sierra Leone presided over by Justices Alusine Sesay and Babatunde Edwards have just slammed an interim Injunction on 11 proposed Members of Parliament representing the main opposition All People's Congress (APC)  party. The

The National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT) one of the few institutions that was established by an Act of Parliament, Act No. 5 of 2001, to “provide retirement and other benefits to meet the

The National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT) wishes to inform the general public that certain individuals who fraudulently acquired NASSIT cheque books from the Rokel Commercial Bank in August, 2013, have again started issuing

His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has initiated the Sierra Leone-Qatar Business Council during a meeting with high-powered delegation from the Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Doha on Saturday 21st April 2018 at

APC National Secretary General, Ambassador Alhaji Osman Foday Yansaneh  confirmed today  the petitioning of 53 newly elected Members of Parliament from both the APC and SLPP. SLPP has petitioned 21 APC MPs while the APC has

The newest democratically elected President and one of the youngest Heads of State, His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has attracted world leaders at the ongoing Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London during a

A medical officer at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital (PCMH), Nagimn Deen has extolled President Brig. (Rtd) Julius Maada Bio for compelling civil and public servants to be prompt at work latest 8:30 a.m. According to

Sierra Leone is a country blessed with fertile soil where food crops could thrive well but yet still our people are going to bed with empty stomach because successive Governments had failed to improve the

Sierra Leone’s only beverage brewing company, the Sierra Leone Brewery Limited, that has recently come under scrutiny from some members of the Matokoh community in constituency 114, ward 404, who had alleged that company’s liquid

The Commission is aware that a letter from the NRA to NATCOM is currently being displayed on social media. The Commission is appalled that a confidential letter between two institutions has been made public and

With all due respect to our new honorable ministers to- be and who will be appointed into various ministries, this short comment may not directly be referred to their persons. They are yet to be