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June 2011

Ibrahim El-Tayyib Bah is gone; he passed away on the evening of Friday 17th June 2011 at the Choithram Hospital, Hill Station, after a prolonged illness.  His remains were laid to rest at the Goderich Village

A report of recent skirmishes among residents around the Kennedy Street area in Fourah Bay, over the construction of a church is seemingly sending wrong signals and must be nipped in the bud as best

The International Monetary Fund has warned that the risks facing the world economy have increased. The fund said it was concerned about the continuing Greek debt crisis, the arguments over US deficit plans and the need

Every time someone close to us dies, we lose a great part of our life. This is exactly how I felt when I heard the sad news that Ibrahim Tayibb Bah (in photo) had

African Minerals Ltd. (AML) Saturday paid over half a billion leones as crop compensation to over three hundred farmers whose plantations were affected by the railway project at Pepel in the Loko Masama and Kafu

Everything went loose with the land tenure system in Pepel Island, the scavenge land where African Minerals are exploring the creek for a possible transportation of iron ore deposited there ready for export. The Island has

Recently, Sierra Express Media toured the provincial headquarter towns of Makeni, Bo, and Kenema, to enhance people’s assessment of the chances of opponent political parties - the APC and SLPP in the run up to

What Freetown City Council! Searcher was amused when the very day saw some senior officials of the Freetown City Council (FCC) searching pockets of some senior workers, who were from a mission ‘Di Papa’ had sent

If you don't have a club, have played just half an hour of league football in four years and are aged 43, the chances of playing international football hover just above the zero mark. (Photo:

Interestingly, we have today as our guest in this hard-fact show, a veteran folk in the media terrain called Mr. Idiot.  If you are just tuning, this is Fox Radio FM1.00, the one in town

It is now clear that certain politicians of the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC), including lecturers at Njala University College, Bo campus, attempted to undermine the recent student union election by promoting politics and

In one of our recent editorials, we discussed the issue of the strike notice as put out by the Academic Staff Association (ASA) of the University of Sierra Leone, notably from the Fourah Bay

The Special Court of Sierra Leone recently announced contempt indictment of five Sierra Leoneans, two of whom are war crimes convicts currently serving sentences in the Mpanga Prison in Rwanda. In a release put out by

Borbor Sawyer was elected in 2007 to represent his people to parliament under difficult circumstances.  He had no money, but since there was dire need for Constituency 04 to have someone as son of the

The greatest breaking news for Fourah Bay College and Sierra Leoneans in general is the news about the publication in Canada of the long awaited and long sought for history about Fourah Bay College’s past,