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Teachers Union Chair calls for school dress code

The newly elected Sierra Leone Teacher’s Union chairman for the Western Area, Ahmed A. Jalloh has complained against the manner in which school going kids now dress and said they resemble any psychopath or inner

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened an investigation into the Guinean military's brutal suppression of an anti-government protest. The Hague court says it is deciding whether the events of 28 September amount to crimes against

In an interview with New Africa’s [No.488] Omar Ben Yedder, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia was blunt in stating that ‘corruption still remains a problem’ in her country and that it is ‘entrenched, systemic. It

[caption id="attachment_1590" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Director of NRA's Policy and Legal Affairs, Abdulai H Charm"][/caption] The Finance Act for the year 2009 being an Act for the imposition and alteration of taxation and other related matters and

It appears I’ve put my foot in it once more, but thank God that there are civilized people who know exactly how to call attention to such innocent errors. So it was  during the week;

The new meaning of the acronym MP that emerged after the misbehavior of APC MPs in the House of Parliament after the last state opening of Parliament is: Mad People. Don’t tell me you are only

Two years has rolled on into the five year mandate given to Ernest Bai Koroma to captain the affairs of the country - Sierra Leone. Recent proclamations both by the President and some of his

The news that a consignment of rice has been rejected at the Queen Elizabeth II Quay because it is rotten has suddenly become national news in the country. In other countries, such an incident would have

Navy Ship Visits Sierra Leone Sierra Leone was blessed this week by the visit of a navy ship from the Netherlands Johan De Witt, Ben Beckering the captain of the vessel intimated Journalists that went onboard

A report reaching Sierra Express Media (SEM) reveals that Dwarzack Market in the West of Freetown has now become a den and meeting place for robbers wanting to wreck carnage on the lives of people

In most relationships there’s not much time for lovers to cuddle up and have a good ole’ passionate sweet time together. Sometimes it seems that the relationship is too settled. One might think that this is

Mr. Express wishes the General public to beware of the new born tenets of the Sierra Leone journalism. I have noticed with utter dismay that the practice of journalism has now gone personal; the major

You want to be in Ernest Koroma’s Government and survive reshuffle no matter what? Forget it if you did not come from the royal Magboroka Boys Secondary School. Politics in the country has been reduced to

The two big boys at PMDC Charles Francis Magai and Mohamed Bangura are said under a crashing wall as mass resignation keeps sending the party under the rubbles of death. Mr. Express was sent a memo

Mr. Express had the privilege of having a close encounter with the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone. I was struck in wonder as to how the athletic looking President of two years ago