Adrian Bolt Lewis, who participated in the Big Brother Africa, the Chase, on Friday returned from South Africa, as he was evicted from the show last week Sunday. Adrian Bolt Lewis who is normally called ‘Bolt’ represented Sierra Leone in the big brother TV reality show together with Bassey.  https://awoko.org/2013/07/08/sierra-leone-bolt-back-home-from-big-brother/

President Ernest Bai Koroma on Friday disclosed that the People’s Republic of China has made a grant of 250RMB to Sierra Leone for development projects.He said this while explaining to Journalists the goodies he brought home from China during his visit on 24th June to 1st July 2013. He recalled the 42 years bilateral relationship […]

The World Health Organisation recently trained the spotlight on gender-based violence, particularly in Africa, where almost half of all women will experience physical or sexual assault in their lifetime. For Princess Squire, a counsellor, and her sister, Annie Mafinda, a midwife, this will come as no surprise. They run a sexual assault clinic at a maternity hospital […]

The Deputy Coordinator of the Attitudinal and Behavioral Change (ABC) Secretariat, Nannette Thomas, has called on telecommunications authorities to consider liberalizing the country’s communications gateway as a step to clamp down on the spate of rampage SIM fraud against the country. She made this clarion call at a Committee hearing when officials of the National […]

A Sierra Leonean PhD candidate in Industrial Economics at the Liaoning University School of International Business & Economics, Shenyang City, People’s Republic of China, Allieu Badara Kabia (in photo), has excelled in the 2013 Risk China Congress.   The Risk China Congress held on the theme “Reforming risk management under the new governance” was timed […]

Chief of Staff in the office of the President has declared that Sierra Leone will become an oil producing country in 2017 given the country’s rich potential in the mineral. Dr. Richard Conteh who was representing President Ernest Bai Koroma made this declaration yesterday, Tuesday, 2nd July 2013 at the start of a Mining, Energy/Oil […]

VENTURES AFRICA – President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone ended a week-long visit to China upon the invitation of the Chinese leadership and Tsinghua University where he was invited to deliver a speech at the 2nd World Peace Forum. While in China, President Koroma met the Chinese President Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders and […]

The Sierra Leone Premier League 2013/14 season commences today with 14 premiership clubs across the country.   Nine venues have been selected as playing grounds for the competition and each club will receive the sum of five million Leones for every round of the competition.  https://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/58606

Notts County have signed Sierra Leone international Mustapha Dumbuya from Crawley Town. The 25-year-old right-back, who has one Sierra Leone cap, will join up with the English League One club on their pre-season tour of Finland from Wednesday. County manager Chris Kiwomya told the club’s official website: “I’ve seen Mustapha play, I’ve spoken to him […]

Joint efforts cultivated by China and Africa on agricultural development are bearing fruit – and many other foodsThe Population Bomb, a best-selling book by Stanford University professor Paul Ehrlich published in 1968, warned of the mass starvation of humans in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation. Thanks mainly to agriculturalists around the world constantly […]