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March 2012

A cross section of students from the different constituent colleges who partook recently in the National Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) last week Friday took to protest over their owed stipends. Sierra Express Media understands that

Abdul Watson Bah a Sierra Leonean businessman of 21 Manuh Street, Bo city was arraigned on Friday March 9 before Magistrate Steven Conteh of Court No. 2 to answer count charges of conspiracy to defraud

Further to our report in September 2011 on Founder and chairman of MCFC Supporters' Club Sierra Leone, Armani Sheku Kamara, visiting Manchester City squad during the 2010/11 season and the delivery of the MCFC Supporters'

A football fan from north Durham is using his skills to coach youngsters in Africa during a three-month volunteering project. (Photo credit: CBF) Mark Maughan, from Consett, has been chosen to go to Sierra Leone to

The youths of Sierra Leone have taken the venture to be on the forefront to kick hell against violence and the so-called political stronghold syndrome, which are identified as the main causes bringing young to

The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women

One of Sierra Leone’s female politicians, Afsatu Kabba, Thursday 8th planted a tree signifying women’s empowerment and inspiration in observation of International Women’s Day. The ceremony held at the frontage of the Miata Conference Hall, Youyi

The ACC in Kenema on Thursday 9th March, 2012, held a successful community sensitization meeting with residents, Security Personnel and other Stakeholders of the Bandama Village court Barry in Kenema.   (Photo: DCO Blake handing over

When I, the Big Talk man was told a member of parliament is being held in the smelly cells of the police on allegations of electoral malpractice, I was vexed but held my breathing anyway. I

To end their district level sensitization tour in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone, the Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat on Thursday March 8, 2012 courted security forces attached to Pujehun District to comprehend

Investigations reveal that the Internal Affairs Minister, Musa Tarawally was the one who masterminded the arrest and unlawful detention of Dauda Kallay, the renowned Moyamba Herbalist and community animator. In his capacity as then Resident Minister

Although Usman Boie Kamara (fondly known as UBK) has lost his chance of becoming 2012’s flag bearer of the major opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party, that has not dampened his plans for development in the

The story of women in world history has been that of subservience and control over their own bodies, and this has resulted in a situation wherein women have been treated as goods, sex objects.  In

There has been a serious shortage of currency in the country and this has caused Information and Communications Minister  Hon. I.B, Kargbo to assail the fears of the public by announcing that the government will

Domestic violence cases are on an alarming increase in the country, and especially in the Ross Road police station. Among the cases that are common are beatings, and child maintenance in the cases of separated