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October 2013

Barely a month after clinching a meritorious award in the United States of America, Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma has again emerged as the proud winner of this year’s The Voice Magazine Achievers Award

Dr. Jasmine Renner (in photo),  a born native of Sierra Leone, Barrister and Solicitor and tenured Associate Professor at East Tennessee State University in the United States, was awarded a Fulbright Specialists Scholar Award and

A single about the importance of money in our everyday lives. Rapper/singer, songwriter and recording artist, POG has released his latest single Fen D Money. This melodious single is sure to get everybody on their feet

Sierra Leone’s Embassy in the People’s Republic of China, with accreditation to several other countries in south-east Asia, including Vietnam, has on Monday 14th October 2013 joined other Embassies in China, in mourning the death

The trainee anti-poaching rangers on Al Jazeera's Wildlife Warzone face their biggest test yet in Monday’s episode, which premieres on Monday, 21 October at 22:30GMT. Of the nine trainees who began, only six remain.  Day 16 is known

Power Investors Summit: Nigeria: What was discussed? LAGOS, Nigeria, October 15, 2013/ -- On October 2nd 2013 investors in Nigeria’s power sector gathered to showcase the opportunities arising out of Africa’s most dynamic and exciting economy

The World Bank and the multi- donor trust fund have furthered the second phase of the Reproductive and Child Health Project (RCHP) (Sierra Leone’s Free Health Care Initiative) with additional financing of Eighteen Million United

World Food Day (WFD) is celebrated annually on October 16th in honour of the foundation of the FAO in 1945. This year’s theme is “Sustainable food systems for food security and nutrition”. FAO reports that 925

Dr. Julius Garvey, the last son of the late African hero in the US, Marcus Garvey, alongside officials of the UNFPA , the vibrant Health and Sanitation Minister, in collaboration with two District Council Chairmen

On his maiden international trip to the United Kingdom which has been a diplomatic success, the chairman of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) made the statement at a jam-packed social evening event organised by

The man that could be the right successor of President Ernest Bai Koroma. A month ago, I went to Sierra Leone for several weeks, traveling to different parts of the country.  Hanging out with the political

World Vision Sierra Leone in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society joined the world over to commemorate International Day of Disaster Risk Reduction in the country on the 13th October 2013 on the

Pee Cee and Sons (Pantap Store) 10 Sani Abacha Street Freetown Wish His Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma, Vice President Chief Samuel Sam Sumana, Cabinet Ministers, Members of Parliament, and the people of Sierra Leone a joyous

Commodities Trading Company, 3 Wallace Johnson Street, Freetown (Importers of rice, flour, salt, sugar, paint, cement) Wish His Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma, Vice President Chief Samuel Sam Sumana, Cabinet Ministers, Members of Parliament, and the people

Mercury International, 19 Siaka Stevens Street, Freetown. Wish His Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma, Vice President Chief Samuel Sam Sumana, Cabinet Ministers, Members of Parliament, and the people of Sierra Leone a joyous Eid ul Adha. May