Washington DC Metropolitan Women’s picnic drive panorama

The recently conducted Picnic Drive on July 24, 2010 in the Washington DC Metropolitan area by the “Washington, DC Women’s Alliance ” at the Kentland Park in Landover, Maryland, has marked yet another milestone in the annals of the history books of the North America in women’s movement. It is without equivocation that these Women’s [...]

Culture Radio on the move

Culture Radio, a Rastafarian-based radio station operating on Frequency Modulation FM 104.5 and representing the voice of the voiceless, has taken a step further in its poise to seek better conditions for the masses by establishing an Advocacy and Sensitization Department. The main objective of the said department, according to Elijah M. I. Gegra, the [...]

New television network to hit the airwaves

Capital Cable Network Television Limited (CCNTV) will hit the airwaves in Sierra Leone this August with its twenty- four channel TV station. Managing Director Mohamed Jah said the channels will be dedicated to producing Christian and Muslim, education; women, gender and children’s issues; sports; entertainment; news about the environment; local and international news and music. [...]

Sierra Update: out again with a bang!

The latest edition of SIERRA Update news magazine is once again hitting your newsstands. And this time around we bring you the inside story of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s visit to Sierra Leone. What did he tell President Koroma? Why did he say Sierra Leone is vibrating and what have the UN got in [...]

I Rest My Case – Oby Ekeh Unekwe: A Curse to Womanhood …She Should Be Deported

I have never met her. Thank God I’ve not. However, listening to her unwarranted and crude outburst on radio recently against journalist Khadijah Savage of the Independent Observer Newspaper, and seeing that some local tabloids are referring to her as “Madam”, I came to the conclusion that Oby Ekeh Unekwe, the so-called Managing Director of [...]

The week that was

I could not believe my ears; to put it mildly I was horrified. I simply could not accept that an SLBC presenter in the year 2010 could pronounce the name IRELAND as” IRILAND.” Throughout his interview with Mary Robinson the former  President of Ireland who since she left office has been working assiduously for the [...]

Top UK envoy visits Sierra Leone

Sierra Express Media is informed that UK Minister for International Development, Stephen O’Brien MP, will visit Sierra Leone today Friday 30th July 2010, the first visit to Sierra Leone by a minister of the new United Kingdom coalition government. During his visit, Mr. O’Brien is expected to meet the Minister of Finance, Dr Samura Kamara; [...]

Hon. Alpha O Timbo arrives in USA

The Hon. Alpha O. Timbo arrived in the U.S.A through the Dulles International Airport, where he was warmly welcomed by the NATIONAL CAUCUS FOR ALPHA O. TIMBO – U.S.A. This group was founded by well-meaning, prominent Sierra Leoneans, who firmly believe that Mr. Timbo is the most formidable from a stream of well-qualified aspirants for [...]

Remembrance – Mrs Joanna May M’Cormack

IN LOVING AND AFFECTIONATE MEMORY OF OUR DEAR JOANNA MAY M’CORMACK WHO PASSED AWAY ON THE 31ST OF JULY 2009 THE LORD GAVE AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY SADLY MISSED BY HER HUSBAND, CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN, AND THE ENTIRE FAMILY AT HOME AND ABROAD MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE Stay with Sierra Express Media, [...]

Statistics Sierra Leone commences household survey

Statistics Sierra Leone says it will soon conduct the fourth round of the Multi Indicator Cluster Survey commonly called “Household Survey.” The survey is a component of the International Household Survey Programme supported by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Acting Statistician General, Mohamed King Koroma told Sierra Express Media that the 10 week survey [...]

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