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November 2009

The Freedom to Create Prize is pleased to announce that renowned human rights advocate Bianca Jagger will present the main award at its prize ceremony on Wednesday 25 November 2009 at the Victoria & Albert

The Eastern city of Koidu in the Kono District is the latest to benefit from the current rounds of continuous professional education for pharmacists conducted by the Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone in collaboration with

The All African Baptist Youth Conference will be organizing a four day conference on peace and conflict resolution at the Miatta Conference center in Freetown. Six hundred delegate members from thirty eight African countries will

The government of President Ernest Bai Koroma started from a positive premise: Information was the essential conduit of the administration, thus ensuring that the populace was kept informed at every turn of event, and circumstance.

F.B.C Students plan to strike Fourah Bay College students plan to go on a peaceful strike on Monday over the increase of college charges. The Student Union President, Mohamed A. Timbo has told Sierra Express Media

The most busy man in Sierra Leone is Mr. Abdul Tejan-Cole. Mr. Cole, head of the Anti-Corruption Commission has a job which entails investigating and bringing to book people, especially high ranking officials of government,

Nine contestants have been declared the right to contest the paramount chieftaincy election come November, 30 2009 in the Gbendembu N’gowahun chiefdom. The declaration of rights took place at the Kalangba Court Barry, November 7th

District Agricultural Officer of the Western Area Haja Adama Kamara has informed this medium that the Federation of Farmers in Sierra Leone will be holding its elections come Saturday November 14th where she said executives

The Ministry of Social Welfare in collaboration with the New England Ville Police Station plan to vigorously combat the growing rate of sexual harassment in the community reports reaching Sierra Express reveal. The New Police Family

Four hundred and ninety seven (497) Sierra Leonean Pilgrims arrived safely at the Prince Mohamed Bin Abdul Aziz International Airport, Medinah on board Royal Air Maroc (RAM) flight no. AT 1800 at about 12 mid

One could understand why the ruling APC government sings such a song about the completion of the Bumbuna Hydro Electric project.  Squarely the project is inarguably one of Sierra Leone’s most coveted achievements both in

In Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe’s short story collection, ‘Girls At War’, there is an interesting story, ‘Surviving The Peace’ which shows the difficulties of surviving in post Biafra war Nigeria with armed robbers, and other

It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks. This adage can well be ascribed to the All People’s Congress government  in presenting a ‘new’ mining policy, which has been described as having a

Labour Minister set death trap Minster of Labour, Mr. Express can reveal, is set to send over three thousand youths on the firing line in a bogus overseas employment in Afghanistan where citizens and coalition forces

Residents of Koindu Town in the Kissy Teng chiefdom, Kailahun district say the issue of Yenga being claimed by Guinean authorities is still a serious matter, as the Guineans have now moved further into Sierra