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June 2014

Mobile internet usage to increase at twice the global rate in five years in Sub-Saharan Africa Distributed by APO (African Press Organization) on behalf of Ericsson. Mobile internet use doubling year-on-year, with usage expected to increase 20

Freetown, June 4 (SLENA) - The Minority Leader of Parliament,  Dr. Bernadette Lahai has informed the leadership of parliament that many MPs are not taking the work of parliament seriously whenever important bills are before

In a bid to encourage Muslim women to take up their motherly role in Islam having been referred to by the Holy Prophet Mohammad (SAW) as the "School of the Nation" which is a blessing

Congratulations! Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Jones of Sierra Express Media for a successful wedding on Saturday 31st May 2014. Best wishes of God's guidance, Prosperity and Good health

Taxation is the vertebral cord of economic development; it is the means by which governments finance their expenditures by imposing charges from time to time on citizens and corporate entities.  The contemporary fierce competition between

The National Insurance and Social Security Trust, (NASSIT)  has in the past years, at least since the advent of the APC government been in the news for the wrong reasons. The scheme was the initiative

Port Loko, June 3 (SLENA) - It appears the lifelong dream of the people of Masimera and Marampa Chiefdoms, especially those who are divinely separated by the Rokel River and who have had it tough

Freetown, June 3 (SLENA) – The Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Lands, Country Planning and Environment together with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week made a conducted tour of factories and other agencies to check

Freetown, June 2 (SLENA) - Parliament last week ratified the purchase of 12 megawatt power purchase for electrification of Freetown between the government of Sierra Leone and CEC Africa Sierra Leone Limited which was tabled

Freetown, June 3 (SLENA) - The Accountant General Department in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED) has ended a one day sensitization workshop on the Treasury Single Account (TSA) at the Miata Conference

President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has reaffirmed government’s commitment to continue to create the enabling environment for private sector activities to thrive in Sierra Leone. The President made the statement when a delegation from Bank

A high powered delegation from the Ministry of Defense and the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces led by the Chief of Defense Staff Major-General Samuel Omar Williams were in Nairobi Kenya via on a

In a remarkable display of unity and true nationalism, Sierra Leone nationals in Saudi Arabia’s second largest city of Jeddah warmly welcomed His Excellency, President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma's new envoy to the Kingdom of

Robin Faley, (in photo) former SLPP Member of Parliament (MP) for Constituency 007, Kailahun District and now the All Peoples Congress (APC) party National Publicity II, past week embarked on an Ebola sensitization drive in

Port Loko, June 3 (SLENA) - If the determination of the people of Port Loko District in the promotion of agricultural activities is to be emulated by farmers in other regions of the country, then