Charles Mambu is SLPP mercenary

Sierra Express has reliably learned that self-styled civil society guru and Chairman of the Health for All Coalition, Charles Mambu is a hidden worm planted on the APC by the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), a mercenary that works in silent espionage to cause trouble for the ruling government, using the name civil society. [...]

In search of her roots from African American to African Princess

In overcoming her deepest fear and make one’s dream comes true, Sarah Culberson (in photo) shared her experience of searching for her original father with a deep fear of rejection and hurt she had to overcome. After learning that her biological mother had died when she was just 11, Culberson discovered that her father lived [...]

Alhaji Sheku Taylor-Koita is Dead

Alhaji Sheku Tailor-Koita was a prominent Islamic leader in Kono District and Sierra Leone as a whole. He was well known for his undoubted generosity in taking care of the poor (‘miskeen’) and his needy neighbors. Those who knew him in early days in Sefadu, Kono, said he was a devout Muslim who dedicated all [...]

My utmost priority for youth is education – says youth ambassador

Sierra Leone’s Youth Ambassador, Anthony Navo Jr has said in Freetown that his utmost priority for youths in this country is education. Speaking at a one-day symposium organized by the Children United for Attitudinal and Behavioral Change campaign at the Sierra Leone Library Board Rokel Street, the youth ambassador noted that choosing a career is [...]

Drug peddlers- 10 million Leones or go to jail …court orders!

Magistrate Court No. 1 has ordered drug peddlers under the National Drug Control Act 2008, section 7c to pay a fine of Le 10 million or be subjected to life imprisonment for the sale of medicines without appropriate licenses to the general public in Sierra Leone. The two culprits, Mohamed Conteh and Sorie Samura who [...]

PMDC in court today

The Peoples Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) will today again appear in the high court of Sierra Leone in relation to the ongoing matter between the leader of the party, Mr. Charles Margai (in photo) and the suspended Chairman, Mohamed Bangura. In an interview with the Chairman, Bangura said they will make another appearance in [...]

The dangers of saboteurs

Give a few thoughts to the topic under consideration, and then you would be obviously led to believe one self-explicable truth, the truth that prompted Ernest Bai Koroma to make a clarion call for change of attitudes of Sierra Leoneans towards the growth and development of the country. But the regrettable thing about this concept [...]

Athletics get new faces in the north

In a bid to improve and develop athletics in the Northern Region of the country, the Northern Region Athletics Association (NRAA) has elected new executive members to man the affairs of the association in the region. The election took place during the association’s extra-ordinary congress at their Yiks Road office in Makeni, Saturday 24th July [...]

FDID sends letter to US Embassy on alleged illegal child adoption

Re: Illegal adoption of 29 Sierra Leonean children I want to draw your attention to a letter I wrote to the minister of social welfare, Gender and Children affairs, Dr. Soccoh Kabia, dated 30th November 2009. In which I raised issues of the alleged illegal adoption of twenty-nine (29) children from Makeni to the United [...]

Statement by Hon Alhaji IB Kargbo on Liberia’s 163rd Independence Anniversary

Statement by the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hom. Alhaji Ibrahim Ben Kargbo (in photo) on the occasion of the 163rd Independence Anniversary of the Republic of Liberia: Your Excellency, Mr. Brima Ambassador of the Republic Liberia Honourable Speaker of Parliament My Lord Chief Justice Honourable Ministers of Cabinet Members of the [...]

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