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July 2010

Consequent upon a functional review of the Office of the President undertaken by the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), His Excellency the President has graciously approved a range of structural and operational reforms for

Sierra Express Media welcomes Bharti Airtel’s Chief Executive Officer Manoj Kohli to Sierra Leone.  The CEO is expected to visit Sierra Leone to asses Zain Sierra Leone and its operations within the community during his

The bodies of some of the scores of people killed in a fuel truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been buried in mass graves.  (Photo: Teams have been taking bodies to mass

Those of us who peeped into the future with a permanent frown on our foreheads, cautious, reticent, concerned and hoping for a new inspiration at the advent of the Ernest Koroma administration, have since been

Let me start my by making reference to some quotations that set the tone for our forthcoming Golden Jubilee slated for 2011. Someone says "Train everyone lavishly, you can't overspend on training" and of course

Guinea will hold a run-off in its presidential election later this month after the former prime minister, Cellou Dalein Diallo, fell short of a majority in the first round on 27 June.  (Photo: Former prime

The vivacious “New People Newspaper Online” carried out an attention-grabbing critique captioned “Is the APC Leadership Listening or Reading”,  written by Dr Sama Banya – Puawui. The reason behind the old man’s bias appetite is

In one of his contributions to the above quoted online tabloid, titled the great Sitta Turay had this to say: (Photo: Brima M. Turay) Friday, 02 July 2010 04:35 administrator "There are so many people on

On the 30th of June 2010, Zain reaffirmed to its subscribers that it remains the leading mobile communications network in Sierra Leone and beyond. It could be recalled that little birds in the telecommunications world had

Shoes4dsole Int. is a 501-C-3 non-profit and non-political organization - our objective is to provide shoes, clothes, and books for the less privileged children and disadvantaged adults in Africa. OUR MISSION is to reach the underprivileged

One hundred police officers including women will be leaving this weekend for Accra (Ghana) on pre-deployment training at the Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre. On Friday this week, sixty personnel left and the remaining

The Sierra Leone Police have arrested ten armed robbers including two women at the Kafu Bullom Chiefdom in the Port Loko district. They accused have already made their first appearance at the Lungi Magistrate’s Court

Even as I was telling readers that the opposition SLPP had become a thorn in the flesh of the APC, the leadership of the government party confirmed this by the reported outburst of my friend

I am struggling to remember a more dramatic end to a World Cup match than Friday's classic quarter-final tie between Uruguay and Ghana at Soccer City. Luis Suarez's goal-line handball from Dominic Adiyiah in the dying

On the 9th March 2009, the first draft policy for social protection was prepared by the Social Protection Steering Committee with support from the Department for International Development (DFID) in Sierra Leone. The reason for