Secretary General of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) in Sierra Leone, Joseph Nyande, recently delivered a lecture to young athletes from various schools on Anti-Doping. Nyande, who is a member of the National Anti-Doping Organization (NADO) and the World Anti-Doping Organization (WADO), lectured the young athletes about drugs that the international sports bodies frown at....Read More
The Management of Guma Valley Water Company, led by the Managing Director Maada Kpenge, has on Friday October 30 visited the project sites of the Tombo Gravity Water Supply System Project. They assessed progress on the work done so far at the site. The Project is part the Company’s effort to improve access to water,...Read More
The Executive Director for the Epilepsy Association of Sierra Leone, Max Bangura, has said on Wednesday November 4, 2020, that the association does not have regular funds to purchase drugs, and does not receive funding from government. He made this statement on Wednesday during a two-day training held to capacitate Community Health Workers in dealing...Read More
The All People’s Congress has in a letter dated November 3, 2020, said that it is disturbed by the Government of Sierra Leone’s outright refusal to allow the audit of COVID-19 funds expended by it. The letter had been issued by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice and addressed to the Auditor General. ...Read More
Jestina Lavahun, the Sales Manager of the Sierra Leone Road Transport Corporation (SLRTC) at Bus Station, Wallace Johnson in street Freetown, has said on Wednesday that insufficient buses in the station has caused hold ups for passengers wanting to travel to the provinces. She told Premier News that, the few buses that are available do...Read More
Abdul Salam Turay, the director and founder of the New Skool Awards (NSA), an entertainment award, has said that an award festival which they had planned but was put off due to the Coronavirus outbreak has been rescheduled to Friday December 18, 2020 at the Radisson Blu (Mammy Yoko) Hotel, Aberdeen in Freetown. He explained...Read More
The Legal Aid Board (LAB) has provided representation to all accused persons tried at the Special Criminal Session held in Magburaka presided over by Honourable Justice Aiah Simeon Alieu. The Session started on Monday October 12, 2020 and ended on Saturday 31 October 2020 following the addition of another one-week to its initial two-week calendar....Read More
Abdul salaam Turay, the overseer of the Dream Chasers, a local record label in the east of Freetown, has said that the outfit is to sign contracts with upcoming musicians to nurture, groom and boost their potentials in music. He made this revelation to Premier News on Friday October 30, 2020, in an interview during...Read More
Francis Kamara, the vice chairman of motor drivers in Regent Road, a popular point of departure for commercial vehicles plying from Freetown to Tonko Limba and Bramaia chiefdom, has said that unavailability of vehicles and poor road conditions have made it difficult for drivers to make the run to the two Chiefdoms. He made this...Read More
The Committee to Protect Journalists has welcomed Sierra Leone’s repeal of its criminal libel laws, and called for further reforms to ensure that journalists can work freely. On October 28, President Julius Maada Bio signed a law revising the country’s 1965 Public Order Act to remove measures that criminalized publications deemed libelous or seditious, according...Read More
