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May 2010

To simply put it (for us, the laymen), multipartism is that (political) system lawfully involving more than one party in the running of a country. If my memory serves me right, the political scientists (or who/whatever

After having the opportunity of traveling to several African countries, I have realized that our country’s media is severely backward, producing mostly baseless news full of grammatical errors and bearing literally little semblance to the

The politics of double standards dubbed ‘watermelon’ politics is once again facing the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP); this time around casting its awful spell on Julius Maada Bio; one of the forerunners of

On Friday 14th May 2010 at about 10 am in the morning, the residents of George Brook, Dwarzack Farm centre of Freetown around the peninsula and the Metropolitan Police of the Freetown City Council locked

In as much as Okada riders (bike riders) are clamoring for freedom to ply the streets of Freetown, they must also know that it does not warrant them to ride recklessly as such that it

A Nigerian national Ferdinand Ekwunife Okeke last Friday made his first appreance before Magistrate Henry Sandy of Freetown Court No 1A on three count charges of conspiracy to committee a felony contrary to law, unlawful

Reports have it that very soon there will be a community radio station for the people of Biriwa chiefdom. This was made known to Sierra Express Media by the consular officer in Spain, Mr. Ahmed

Officials of the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society (SLRCS) and International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), on Wednesday May 12th, 2010, held a one day meeting with legislators on information session on International Humanitarian Law

A cross section of parliamentarians speaking at the concluded symposium organized by the International Organization for Migration, with the theme ‘Strengthening and Expanding Representative Democracy’, have called for constitutional reform in the country. The majority of

The mercenaries in the press have ceased their fire against the London Mining Company. But the blackmailing battle seems to have been taken over by pseudo-civil society organisations such as the Network Movement for Justice

Melron Nicol-Wilson, former director and founder of the Lawyers Centre for Legal Assistance (LAWCLA), has returned home from Johannesburg, South Africa, after delivering a paper on the challenges and opportunities facing the consortium of African

It is celebration galore at the Camp Nou , with a live band at the centre of the pitch, as  Barcelona retained the Spanish La Liga title on the final day of the 2009/10 season

There is no doubt now that the APC are still reeling from the shock of having lost the recent Parliamentary bye election in constituency 91 of Pujehun district. It was a contest for which not

APC ace in the Pujehun District and Deputy Minister of Employment and Social Security Moijueh Kai Kai has hit at the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party as full of thuggery, bigotry and political intolerance and 

His Excellency president Ernest Bai Koroma has instructed the Secretary to President Osho Coker to write the Permanent Secretary of Information and Communication that the said agreement of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which was