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October 2018

Barely over a week ago, the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) Government, through the Ministry of Finance, Works Ministry and the Sierra Leone Roads Authority (SLRA), made a total of three hundred and fifty seven

One of the major problems Sierra Leone has been grappling with for many decades now is how the Government should attract more Direct Foreign Investments to change the economic narrative of the country which is

Sierra Express Media has been reliably informed during interviews conducted with freshers/ year one (1)/ students and parents of Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone that authorities in the college are extorting gullible students

About 30 activists last Tuesday reportedly staged a ‘die-in’ and held billboards reading “stop toxic investments”, “reclaim human rights” and “stop green washing” in front of the ING Bank in Brussels, Belgium. According to report, the

Dayu Mining has invested over one hundred and fifty thousand United States Dollars ($150,000) to construct the road leading to the hilltop where Africell constructed it network tower to provide coverage for villages in Simiria

The High Court of Sierra Leone, Holden at Makeni, and presided over by the Honourable Justice Monfred Sesay, on Friday 26th October 2018, sentenced John Amara and Ibrahim Bah to a fine of Thirty Million

Caught Naked in Illicit Love Affair Sierra Leoneans in the country and around the world are shocked and unhappy over the pornographic video clip circulating in the social media, exposing the nakedness of the Speaker

The Magistrates Court in Makeni has ordered the compensation of five million Leones for a thirty-hectare piece of land that had gone into sales agreement for six-hundred Leones in the late 60s; upsetting Rights Groups

The Government of Sierra Leone (GOSL) in collaboration with the World Bank has officially launched the $20 million project of the Extractive Industries Technical Assistance (EITI). The launching ceremony took place at the Miatta Conference Centre

The Minister of Lands Country Planning and the Environment, Dr. Dennis Sandy (in photo) has frowned at the high increase of deforestation activities across the country. Dr. Sandy was speaking at the National Conference on the

The Minister of Tourism and Culture, Dr. Memunatu B. Pratt has disclosed that Tourism is an environmentally dependent sector and also one of the world’s fastest growing industries for rapid economic transformation if properly utilized. She

State House, Freetown, Wednesday 24 October 2018 - His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has met the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Yakoub Yusuf Alfu-Salim, at State House where

Parents and guardians from many villages in Marampa and Maforkie chiefdoms have appealed to the Government of President Julius Maada Bio not to leave their children behind in the Free Quality Education Initiative.   (Photo: One

In a press conference held at the police headquarters, Sierra Express Media (SEM) was updated that the issue of timber logging and trade has been a lucrative business over the years attracting different sectors of

A popular businessman, who is a household name in building materials in Sierra Leone, Fawaz Building Material, has flatly denied and disowned any relations with a Lebanese national popularly known as Junior Bio. According to the