Two-day ECOWAS Council of Ministers’ Summit commences

The two day 64th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers is on the way in Abuja the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria to enable participants including Sierra Leone’s three man delegation led by Deputy Minister of Finance Dr. Richard K. Konteh review the status of implementation of the organization’s regional integration programmes and [...]

The state of SLPP in North America is strong

Our party, The Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), has an unquestionably strong record of opening up and expanding democratic spaces.  This includes not only accommodating a plurality of voices, but also of engaging in productive dialogues with groups and persons who agree or disagree with the party’s inherent core values of tolerance and mature and [...]

World No Tobacco Day

Today, the United States joins with the World Health Organization (WHO) in observing World No Tobacco Day 2010. Tobacco use is the single leading preventable cause of death in the world and kills up to half of those who use it. Containing this epidemic is one of the most important public health priorities of our [...]

South African Investors Storm Salone … Infrastructure to be Overhauled

The infrastructural chaos of the country it appears has finally been rescued as news meeting Sierra Express Media confirms that big time investors from South Africa implementing NEPAD related development programmes have landed on the shores of Sierra Leone, expressing great interest in investing in and overhauling the country’s shabby infrastructure. This development followed president [...]

Sierra Leone strengthens ties with Saudi Arabia at African Day celebration

Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States and Permanent Representative to the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), H.E. Wusu Munu in a joint statement with his colleagues in Riyadh stressed the excellent and historic relations binding African countries and Saudi Arabia. (Photo: l-r Libyan and Burkina Ambassadors listening to a Saudi Foreign [...]

NASSIT Investment

Board members of the National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT) which Sierra Express spoke to on the state of investment undertaken by the Trust, have been able to say that the inevitable success of all NASSIT investment is underplayed by the sincerity of both the management team and the board to ensure that monies [...]

Witch hunt – APC to Prosecute Maada Bio

Chief Spokesman for the ruling All People’s Congress APC) has told media men that the executioners of Bambay Kamara, Sally Kuppa and others, executed under the NPRC government once led by the now SLPP Aspirant Julius Maada Bio will likely be brought to book as according to him the trial of the death of these [...]

Bombali has highest Elephantiasis

Dr. Santigie Sesay head of Lymphatic Filariasis programme, commonly known as elephantiasis in the Ministry of Health has revealed that Bombali district has the highest prevalence of elephantiasis in the country. However, the learned medical Doctor failed to disclose to journalists the name of the institution that conducted the study and the indicators that qualified [...]

Urban rural development bias

Development has been best enjoyed when it is evenly distributed to all. Over the years to date, Sierra Leone as a nation has suffered an uneven and biased form of development. This urban-rural dichotomy in which the country has been designed has presented a blurred developmental assessment progress to the outside world. Development when evenly [...]

Zainab Bangura arrives in France for Franco-Africa summit

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Haja Zainab Hawa Bangura on Saturday, 29th May arrived in the city of Nice, the fifth largest city in France, to represent His Excellency President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma at the 25th Franco-Africa summit hosted by the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, the first since elected as President of [...]

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