SEM welcomes Bharti Airtel’s CEO Manoj Kohli to Sierra Leone

Sierra Express Media welcomes Bharti Airtel’s Chief Executive Officer Manoj Kohli to Sierra Leone.  The CEO is expected to visit Sierra Leone to asses Zain Sierra Leone and its operations within the community during his two-day visit. Mr Kohli was given the task by Bharti Airtel in January of this year to head a new [...]

DR Congo fuel truck victims buried in mass graves

The bodies of some of the scores of people killed in a fuel truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been buried in mass graves.  (Photo: Teams have been taking bodies to mass graves outside the devastated village) At least 230 people were killed when the overturned oil tanker exploded and sparked a [...]

Random Musing: A cobweb – Our youths, our dilemma, our future

Those of us who peeped into the future with a permanent frown on our foreheads, cautious, reticent, concerned and hoping for a new inspiration at the advent of the Ernest Koroma administration, have since been labelled as opposition sympathisers and even some unprintable names, for not giving a guttural roar filled to the brim with [...]

Looking Forward to Kolenten Secondary School Golden Jubilee

Let me start my by making reference to some quotations that set the tone for our forthcoming Golden Jubilee slated for 2011. Someone says “Train everyone lavishly, you can’t overspend on training” and of course the holy book says “train up a child in the way he should go and when he grows up he [...]

Guinea election goes to run-off as Diallo falls short

Guinea will hold a run-off in its presidential election later this month after the former prime minister, Cellou Dalein Diallo, fell short of a majority in the first round on 27 June.  (Photo: Former prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo is the frontrunner ) The election commission said Mr Diallo took 39.72% of the vote, well [...]

Dr. Sama Banya’s Old Tactics of Destructive Politics

The vivacious “New People Newspaper Online” carried out an attention-grabbing critique captioned “Is the APC Leadership Listening or Reading”,  written by Dr Sama Banya – Puawui. The reason behind the old man’s bias appetite is just to remind people about how much he has failed his people and tribesmen.  (Photo: Eddie Stanley – author) If [...]

President Ernest Bai Koroma’s team – a shame and incompetence, The New People – a rejoinder

In one of his contributions to the above quoted online tabloid, titled the great Sitta Turay had this to say: (Photo: Brima M. Turay) Friday, 02 July 2010 04:35 administrator “There are so many people on the President Koroma’s team that are ’round pegs in square holes’. Mr. Turay also cited four categories of people [...]

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