Dozens of condemned inmates at the Pademba Road Male Correctional Centre will be relocated to the Mafanta Correctional Centre in Tonkolili district, three miles off Magburaka town, according to the Director General of the Sierra Leone Correctional Service. Mr. Joseph Lamboi said that this was part of efforts to solve the overcrowding problem in the...Read More
Dozens of condemned inmates at the Pademba Road Male Correctional Centre will be relocated to the Mafanta Correctional Centre in Tonkolili district, three miles off Magburaka town, according to the Director-General of the Sierra Leone Correctional Service. Mr. Joseph Lamboi said that this was part of efforts to solve the overcrowding problem in the Pademba...Read More
The Minister of Water Resources, Philip K. Lansana has said the New Direction Government is committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 6.1, which seeks to secure safe and affordable drinking water for all Sierra Leoneans by 2030, as stated in the Medium Term National Development Plan. The Minister made this disclosure while addressing the...Read More
The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone (HRCSL) has on Thursday October 15, 2020, called on Sierra Leoneans to cultivate a sense of nationalism and patriotism so that loyalty to the State shall override sectional, ethnic, tribal or other loyalties. The Commission made this call after residents of Makeni obstructed officials the ACC from interviewing...Read More
The Rainbo Initiative in partnership with Save the Children with funding from Irish Aid has on Monday October 19, 2020, commenced a five-day training session for healthcare workers in Public Health Unit (PHU), officers of the Family Support Unit (FSU) of the Sierra Leone Police and other key stakeholders in various communities, on response and...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has denied an allegation put out in an article, published in the Africanist online newspaper, dated 15th October 2020; which seems to suggest that it has not taken action on a sum of “Le3.2 billion foreign travel tax revenue missing in Sierra Leone” from the National Revenue Authority (NRA). The ACC...Read More
While the sole agent for the export of timber from Sierra Leone, Babadi Kamara of Leadway Company, has told journalists that his company has generated over US$50 million as revenue for the government in two years, timber harvesters across the country have noted that government would have realized more if the trade had been liberalized....Read More
Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Sean Cairncross, on Friday held discussion with President Julius Maada Bio on progress on the threshold programme, which seeks to improve the financial viability of the water and electricity sectors in Sierra Leone. As part of his two-day (October 15 and 16) visit to the country,...Read More
Abu bakar Kamara alias “Cover Me”, a driver in the east of Freetown, has said on Wednesday October 14, 2020 that, the outbreak of the Coronavirus has left him without job and without resources to maintain himself and his family. “I have seven children; recently, my wife left me because I am out of job....Read More
The Chief Fire Officer for Sierra Leone’s National Fire Force (NFF), Nazir Kamanda Bongay, has said the force faces huge challenges in running and in fulfilling its mandate to prevent and control fire accidents in the country. He made this statement during the Budget hearing for 2021 process which was held at the Ministry of...Read More