A recent Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report has highlighted sustainable aquaculture development and effective fisheries management as crucial to ensuring future food and nutritional security. Worldwide per capita fish consumption has reached a new record of 20.5 kilograms per year and is poised to increase further in the decade ahead, according to the Food...Read More
he United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Sierra Leone has commenced the distribution of Mama-baby bags to mothers in the maternity wards of selected health facilities. This initiative aims at encouraging pregnant women to use health facilities for safe labor and delivery services as COVID-19 persists. Since Sierra Leone registered its first case of COVID-19...Read More
Officials of the Ministry of Works and Public Assets (MWPA) and the Sierra Leone Roads Authority (SLRA) have on Thursday June 4, 2020, conducted an inspection tour on the Wellington-Masiaka Road, which is currently being constructed by the China Railway Seventh Group (CRSG). Minister of Works and Public Assets, Peter Bayuku Konteh, thanked the authorities...Read More
With the lockdown resulting to restriction of both vehicular and human movements across cities in the country, business operations of the Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) have been greatly hampered, according to the recent National Survey on the Impact of COVID-19 on MSMEs conducted by Sierra Leone SME Forum, African Consulting Group, Business Coalition...Read More
News that the Public Order (Amendment) Act tabled in parliament for deliberation and approval five months ago had been withdrawn, sent shock waves across Sierra Leone. The rationale behind the withdrawal remained unclear until it was clarified by the Ministry of Information and Communications. It did not come as a surprise that the Ministry lost...Read More
Maccabaeus Eber, the CEO of Unique Multimedia, a non-profitable organization that aims at promoting African culture, empowering youths by exposing the talents in them, has disclosed to Premier News on Saturday June 6, 2020, that the organization has produced over 67 musicians since it was established in January 2020 in Freetown. CEO Eber said that,...Read More
Alusine G. Conteh aka Kronic X, a local musician in the East-end of Freetown, has told Premier News that he has recently released a song to raise awareness in the battle against the deadly Coronavirus pandemic. He made the statement in an interview with this medium on Sunday June 7, 2020, during which he further...Read More
Crime Statistician of the Sierra Leone Police, Sergeant Allen Mohamed Koroma has on Tuesday June 9, 2020, disclosed that the rate of crime has increased from about 61, 783 in 2018 to 75, 729 cases in 2019. Out of the 75,729 cases reported in 2019, the Legal and Justice Support Department of the Sierra Leone...Read More
Citizens in Freetown are disregarding the use of face mask as prescribed by the government of Sierra Leone in the fight against the deadly Coronavirus pandemic. Abdulai Tholley, a businessman in Lumley, told Premier News on Monday that using the face mask reduces the proper intake of oxygen and causes him difficulty in breathing. “The...Read More
The Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF), in a bid to help fight the Global Pandemic has distributed a huge consignment of Corona Virus (COVID-19) preventive materials to three Chiefdoms in the Tonkolili district. The timely intervention of SiLNoRF in distributing the preventive materials with support from BMZ through Welt Hunger Hilfe...Read More
