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October 2013

Did you watch the last National Democratic Convention before the last term of Barack Obama’s re-election?  It was pulsating, electrifying and magnetic.  To most political pundits and commentators, the message of ‘CHANGE’ and ‘HOPE’ of

Sierra Leone’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Dr. Ebun Jusu has addressed the United Nations General Assembly meeting on the Advancement of Women. Here is the full statement delivered by the Minister

Sierra Leone’s Ambassador Bockari Kortu Stevens accredited to the United States of America, Canada and South America has presented his letter of credence to Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on October 2nd 2013. Making his presentation, Ambassador

The 920 Sierra Leonean pilgrims that left the country from the 1st to the 6th of October to Makkah have completed major rites of their Hajj. They have covered so far Mina, Arafah, Muzdalifah and

Days after declaring his own generation had "failed," rock star philanthropist Bob Geldof has told Al Jazeera that the next generation will do so too.  (Photo: Haru Mutasa and Bob Geldof) Geldof had struck the previous pessimistic

The Minister of Transport and Aviation, Hon. Leonard Balogun Koroma aka Logus on Monday, October 14, launched the “Operation no half way” country-wide.  (Photo: Logus Koroma in action) According to Hon. Koroma, he is very determined

Minister of Trade and Industry, Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara, on Monday, October 14, 2013 paid a one day official visit to the facilities of the Commodities Trading Company (CTC) at the Queen Elizabeth II Quay,

Contrary to reports that there are widespread calls for the General Manager of the National Power Authority (NPA), Dr. Zubairu Kalokoh (in photo), to be sacked, information gathered by this press, has revealed that it

Minister of Trade and Industry, Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara, on Monday, October 14 at the Ministry’s conference room at Youyi Building, Freetown, addressed development partners and other stakeholders on the Local Content Policy.  (Photo: Discussing

The Management of Universal Radio FM 98.7 presents Oldies Dee Goodies Night Volume 5 on Christmas Day in a live band oldies competition between Afro-Combo of Freetown and Afro-Work of Bo city at the Family

Female players of the national football team have hailed the Chairman of the Eastern Region Football Association (ERFA), Mr. Morrison Sannoh, for what they described as his patriotism to his country. They told Sierra Express Media

One of Sierra Leone’s most popular football clubs, Mighty Blackpool, is reported to be in turmoil after President Ernest Bai Koroma reportedly persuaded some members of the aggrieved party to play the ongoing Premier League

The Sunday Foundation, a charitable non-Governmental organization established in Sierra Leone, currently operating in the Kambia district in the north of the country, has opened the Sunday Foundation Girls Secondary School. Speaking to the newly appointed

Mr. Alhassan Alaska Conteh earlier this week made a public statement over the radio that on the race to promote tourism, infrastructural development, and entertainment in Sierra Leone, his entertainment complex, Gburbeh Night Club is

Sheik Mohamed Canaan Bah was a student at Hawza Zainabiya in Damascus Syria.  He went there on a scholarsip in the nineties and has been there since.  A pious muslim who has always been engaged