Chief Executive Officer of the National Public Procurement Authority (NPPA), Ibrahim Brima Swaray, has on Monday June 15, 2020, presented the 2018 Annual Public Procurement Assessment Report to President Julius Maada Bio. He disclosed that over the years most of the time leakages in national spending had emanated from procurement activities, adding that upon assumption...Read More
Joe Abass Bangura, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Life by Design, a local organization which spots and helps develop young talented Sierra Leoneans with innovative skills, has announced that the organization would conduct a six-week programme titled: “Youngers Innovation Pitch” which would serve as a platform for youths to direct their creative energy...Read More
Disruption due to COVID-19 in Sierra Leone could lead to 23,000 extra teenage pregnancies by the end of the year, according to new analysis from Save the Children. To combat this, the organisation has launched an innovative, interactive game application for boys and girls which provides them with reliable information on sexual health as well...Read More
Bernard Johnson aka Bed J., the Chief Executive Officer of Cloud Diamond Multimedia, a local entertainment platform, has on Thursday June 12, 2020, informed Premier News that the organization has released a nonviolence song titled: ‘Violence Nor Make Sense.’ Bed J. said that the idea to release the single had been born out of the...Read More
In a bid to improve water supply in Freetown, Guma Valley Water Company in collaboration with Fourah Bay College Administration and QATAR Foundation, a community based organization at Leicester Road, has on Saturday June 13, 2020 concluded a two-day tree planting exercise at the deforested area of White-water weir located at Botanical garden, Fourah Bay...Read More
The Freetown Male Correctional Centre has recorded nine new confirmed cases of COVID-19, to bring the cumulative positive infections at the prison to 28, according to trusted sources at the facility housing the infected inmates. Fourteen inmates have so far recovered, with no death. The nine inmates who tested positive for COVID-19 were among the...Read More
Adama Sesay, the mother of a three year-old child has on Thursday June 11, 2020, told Premier News that a another young lady attempted to steal her daughter, Hajaratu Bangura, on Monday June 8, 2020 somewhere along Leicester Road in Freetown. She explained that on Monday at around 6:00 pm at Leicester road, she informed...Read More
Statistics Sierra Leone (SSL) with support from the World Bank has on Monday June 8, 2020, commenced training of enumerators and supervisors for the Sierra Leone Covid-19 Impact Monitoring Survey (SL-CIMS), at its headquarters at A.J. Momoh Street in Freetown. The survey which is being implemented by SSL and funded by the World Bank hopes...Read More
Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance, Jacob Jusu-Saffa, has on Thursday June 11, 2020, launched the Sierra Leone Skills Development Project (SLSDP) in the conference hall of the Ministry of Information and Communications in Freetown. Minister Saffa described the project as the “bread and butter” for the youths. According to Finance Ministers several skill gap assessments...Read More
The Minister of Water Resources,Ing. Philip K. Lansana, has described water resource management a priority to the Ministry and pledged his strongest support to manage the country’s water resources. He made this commitment when he visited the new National Water Resources Management Agency’s (NWRMA) office at kingharman Road on Thursday June 11, 2020 in Freetown....Read More
