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September 2013

The newly appointed Prime Minister of Senegal Ms Aminata Toure (in photo) has set up a 32 member cabinet following consultations with President Macky Sall and other political stakeholders. Among the top Ministers that lost their

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have called for the release of editor Rodney Sieh from prison in Liberia, a country whose president, Nobel Peace Prize laureate

The Southern Regional Office of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has on Friday 30th August 2013 addressed the community leaders and members of Koribondo Town in the Jiama Bongor chiefdom, Bo District. This event was organized

Schools and colleges in Sierra Leone will stand to benefit some 2000 text books from the United Kingdom. This is part of a charitable gesture from two British nationals Nicolette Bench and Sheralyn Snaith, who made

This press has reliably learnt that corpses are still believed to be buried underneath the debris of the collapsed King Jimmy Bridge.  This disclosure was made by traders and youths during an official visit to

The news doing the rounds of an alleged mutiny by 12 military officers in the Northern District Head Quarter Town of Makeni has attracted negative comment by some sections of the public. It is indeed true

The Islamic Forum-Sierra Leone has prevailed on supporters and fans of Haja Afsatu Kabba, ex-Energy and Fisheries and Marine Resources Minister, across the country, to withhold a protest action, on behalf of the former APC

Founder and Proprietor of the newly established Bess Berry Entertainment Centre located in the Deep Eye Water community, Western Rural, Sulaiman Sesay has denied that  he opened the centre for political gains as rumored by

Stalwarts of the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) have described the party’s recently-concluded convention in Bo as the worst in the history of the party; a situation which they blamed on the poor management

A few days ago, I visited the erudite Reverend Dr. Joseph Gaima Lukulay Moiba in his humble house around Bunumbu Press in Bo where he has been living quietly with his Norwegian wife and children

Headman for Deep Eye Water community, Alhaji Ibrahim Sesay, on Wednesday August 28th, revealed at a community meeting that no more time would be wasted to officially open the market for traders to commence business

Member of Parliament for Constituency 99, Hon, Alimamy G. Kargbo, has donated ten bags of cement and two trips of sand to flood disaster victims at Williams Street, Portee in Freetown. Making the disclosure was the

Association of Clearing and Forwarding 2012, met top officials of the Sierra Leone Road Transport Authority (SLRTA) following a newly operational office opened by the latter at the Queen Elizabeth II Quay for inspection of

The National Defence College (NDC) in the Federal Republic of Nigeria recently presented the Award of Distinguished Alumnus Star of the Defence to two senior army officers of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces

Members of the United Communities of Muslims {UCM) in Sierra Leone, popularly known as the Basharian Mission, last Friday unanimously endorsed the appointment of the new  Chairman and Leader of the main opposition Sierra Leone