BIO Metric System: novelty in the NASSIT pension scheme

On February 28, 2008 at the Central Bank of Sierra Leone, The National Social Security Trust (NASSIT) started the registration of its members using the Biometric Registration System (BRS) that was integrated with a new and separately developed enhanced Pension Enterprise Solution – NAPOS II. The BRS and the Pension Enterprise solution were developed by [...]

Your tax money at work

I recently saw our Freetown, Your Lordship, Mayor Albert George Williams (in photo). When I shouted him by his title, “Mr. Mayor Sir” he responded, “na una Tax money dae wok so.”  I smiled and asked myself, what is he talking about? I still don’t get it, Mr. Mayor. What’s the accountability? Ha ha ha!!! [...]

Health Minister blockades Koroma’s health care

In sequel to our publication of Thursday 1st July 2010 which reported the misnomers and irrelevant bureaucratic principles adopted by the Deputy Minister of Health, Mohamed D. Koroma, making the work of doctors and nurses in the ministry seemingly impossible, further revelations have proved claims that the Deputy Health Minister is very deliberate in ensuring [...]

Heavy storms and rains for 3 months

The metrological department of Sierra Leone has predicted heavy rains and thunder storms in the coming three months of the rainy season, according to a press release last Friday. Prediction by the department indicates that Sierra Leone will experience heavy rains and storms, the first time ever before, an announcement that has left many citizens [...]

Bar Association storms Makeni

This last weekend, the Sierra Leone Bar Association, according to reports reaching Sierra Express Media, flocked into Makeni, the Northern Headquarter town to attend their Annual General retreat. According to the President of the Bar Association Joseph F. Kamara, this is the very first time that the Bar Association is holding its annual congregation out [...]

ACC Presents Annual Report To President Koroma

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has on Tuesday 6th July presented its 2009 Annual Report to His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma at State House. Presenting the report, Acting Commissioner of ACC Morlai Buya-Kamara registered thanks to Government for the appreciable level of both financial and political commitment to the Commission’s work. He noted that the [...]

SLMTV honors P-Square

Sensational Nigeria duo, P-Square (Peter and Paul Okoye) continue to attract laurels outside home as they were recognized at this year’s SLMTV awards ceremony in Maryland as Best African artists. This is the first time SLMTV has honored non-Sierra Leonean musicians. P-Square are probably the most popular African artists in Sierra Leone. They have toured [...]

And the winner is… Kao Denero

After long running battles as to who is Sierra Leone’s best hip-hop act, controversial artist Kao Denero may have finally got the nod as the King of Salone Hip-Hop after SLMTV crowned him for the second consecutive time as Best Rapper. (Photo: Kao Denero, King of Salone Hip-Hop) Kao, incidentally, was not present at the [...]

The schizophrenic former Colonel

Some soldiers who fight in some of the world’s very terrible wars suffer from a kind of mental stress after they have been discharged from the army. Many such cases have been reported among United States and United Kingdom servicemen who served in Iraq or in Afghanistan and have remained a cause of concern with [...]

Sierra Leone’s Olufemi Terry wins Caine writing prize

The Sierra Leonean writer Olufemi Terry has won this year’s Caine Prize for African Writing, regarded as Africa’s leading literary award. (Photo: Olufemi Terry: An enormous talent for the future) The prize was given for his story Stickfighting Days – the judges said it presented a heroic culture that was “Homeric” in its scale and conception. [...]

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