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News from August 2009

Barnet FC Captures Ahmed Deen

Coca Cola English Football League Two side has captured Leone Stars’ left-back Ahmed Deen in a short-term deal with hopes of an extension of the contract. The former Macclesfield Town defender had been on trial with the club throughout the pre-season before he was finally signed over at the week-end. In March 2004, the team [...]

Koroma wants sports to develop

Sport fanatic, President Ernest Bai Koroma, has urged all sporting disciplines in the country to strive to develop their various sports to a higher level. The Head of State, who himself is a squash player, made this statement at the opening of the Aureol Insurance Company, (AIC) squash tournament in Freetown, “I will be a [...]

Okobo Alejo

From way you go na state ose
Show we soba project for back you mojo
So so ladida boto bata en labo labo
Jus dae for pull orda man pikin na doe
Oos tem you go function okobo alejo?

Nor to you born Kenema-Koindu road
Bumbuna kambo na orda man yone
91-Bo road nor to you born
Jus dae for blow for natin [...]

Women Are Drivers of Positive Change

When I first visited the Victoria Mxenge co-operative in Cape Town in 1997, I met homeless women working to transform an empty patch of land into a new community. They pooled their savings and microloans, bought shovels, poured concrete and built new homes for themselves and their children. In 1997 there were just 18 homes. [...]

National Defense College Awards Maj. Gen. Nelson Williams “Distinguished Star Alumnus”

Sierra Leone’s Chief of Defense Staff, Major General Alfred Claude Nelson Williams GOOR, DSA, LSE, JSC, psc, FWC, ndu, MSC has been singled out and awarded the “Award of Distinguished Star Alumnus of the National Defense College of Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Major General Alfred Claude Nelson Williams GOOR, DSA, LSE, JSC, psc, FWC, ndu, MSC [...]

One-month old abandoned

An eyewitness report says that Fatmata Barrie of 92 George Brook on Friday abandoned her one-month old child at a nearby stream in the Dwarzark community. The eyewitness, Abioseh, of the same address as Fatmata said he was standing on his veranda when he saw her carry the baby to the stream. Norman said the [...]

Five Sierra Leoneans Face Deportation from Liberia

Five Sierra Leonean male youths who are said to have to stowed-away onboard cruise ship MV Constantine G Panama are said to face deportation to Sierra Leone after they were found when the ship docked at the Liberian port early August 2009.
Reports say the five youths were arraigned before the Sierra Leonean Ambassador to Liberia, [...]

If the ‘Economist Magazine’, why not Wanza?

Sorie Fofana is ex-press attaché to UK and currently Publisher of Global Times, a newspaper that is making a name in the Sierra Leone media landscape. I definitely like the writing skills and style of Fofana. He is a brilliant fellow, no need denying this fact. As a result of my admiration for him, I [...]

City Council Fails: Victoria Park Beautification Grounded

News reaching Sierra Express says that donors that offered to support the Victoria Park Beautification Project to have been undertaken by the City Council of Freetown have pulled out of the developoment until further notice, citing no reason at all.
Local media report says that the Deputy Chief Administrator of the Council Arthur Kwesi-John, admitted that [...]

Kailahun Dignitaries Salute President Koroma

As a sequel to the recent signing of the Kenema-Kailahun Highway, a high-level delegation of Members of Parliament from the Kailahun District on Saturday praised President Ernest Bai Koroma for what they described as his commitment to the development to the whole of Sierra Leone as demonstrated in his recent signing of the contract for [...]

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