Sol Bamba fails to meet up with Hibs’ training camp

Sol Bamba is likely to miss Hibernian’s opening Europa League qualifier on 29 July after the defender failed to join the club’s training camp in Holland. The Ivory Coast international was granted extended leave, having been at the World Cup – where he did not play. (Photo: Bamba has been with Hibernian for two seasons) [...]

Afsatu Trial: Final Verdict Due

It is now up to the court in the trial of former Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resource Afsatu Kabba (in photo) to give verdict on the issue between the State (Anti Corruption Commission) and the ex-minister as both the prosecution and defence has rested their case in the matter. Both lawyers for the prosecution [...]

Bhai Dhawa Sesay to revamp Salone entertainment industry

Dhawa Technology Group has teamed up with SLBC to stage a dancing competition called U SABI DANCE; tailored to revamp the entertainment industry in the country. In an exclusive interview with Bhai Dhawa Sesay, the brain behind the programme, he stated that the competition will possibly start in mid September and will last unto December [...]

Journalist impersonates in Court

It was very embarrassing last Friday when a journalist Foday Jalloh was arrested by people who claimed that he took the sum of Le100,000 from them to secure bail for one of their relatives lodged at the Pademba Road Maximum Prison. Journalists including this reporter felt the sting of embarrassment last Friday when the issue [...]

Residential mortgage financing and the home mortgage finance law

Introduction. Homeowners have been financing the construction of houses either by their own funds or through short term loans from friends, relatives and from the money market. This has made the construction of most housing units a long challenging venture. It could take over 10 years to complete a house, no wonder the entire country [...]

Opening old wounds is no answer

When the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) came up with the idea of an inquest on the death of Bambay Kamara and others, killed during the junta reign of the NPRC; Sierra Express had always known that whoever might be pulling the strings in the resurrection of such dead stories was doing so in the [...]

Sierra Leone Corruption: How Ingrained?

For years now, what has been a primary impediment to the growth and development of Sierra Leone both as a state and nation is the entrenched corruption that cuts through every sphere of life in the country. It is such that the purported fight against this thriving menace called corruption is almost unwinnable if the [...]

Swedish champions AIK Solna sign Sierra Leonean Bangura

Sierra Leonean striker Mohamed Bangura has signed for Swedish Champions AIK Solna from local club Kallon FC for an undisclosed fee.  (Photo: Sierra Leonean Mohamed Bangura has signed for Swedish side AIK Solna) The 21-year-old has been on loan at IFK Varnamo, in the third tier of Swedish football, since March and scored 12 goals [...]

Innocent to release ‘Nar Wae Ar Miss’

For many Sierra Leoneans he’s largely responsible for the defeat of the Sierra Leone People’s Party in the last general elections through his hit song ‘Ejectment Notice’. Almost three years on Prince George aka Innocent, in a rare interview with salonemjamboree’s Lamrana Bah, reveals the motive behind the song and his recent response to Emmerson’s [...]

Barrie wins Free Radio WC promo

Mohamed Barrie has received a cheque of Le640,000 from Hotel Africanus as his prize for winning Free Radio’s World Cup Fever 2010 promo.  (Photo: Barrie displaying his Le 640,000 cheque) Barrie emerged the luckiest out of 31 participants, when his favoured nation Spain won the World Cup 2010 in South Africa on July 11. Speaking [...]

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