A Lands Dispute Resolution Complaints Committee was last Thursday constituted by the Government of Sierra Leone to look into land disputes between April 2018 and January 2021, due to poor management of lands resulting to conflicts. The new Minister of Lands, Housing and Country Planning, Dr. Turad Senesie, made this announcement last Thursday at the...Read More
In what has been a move that is geared towards revamping the economy of Sierra Leone, Kingho Mining Company Limited has confirmed that its mines in Tonkolili and the railway and port of its co-subsidiary in Pepel Town have started full operation on Saturday March 6, 2021. This landmark move by the Company came when...Read More
Mohamed Forneh has been elected as President of the Timber Association Sierra Leone. When he was being inaugurated on Thursday, March 4, 2021, he promised to run the Association with an all-inclusive executive for the next four years. “Today I am so happy for the mandate given to me which means if we had any...Read More
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation through the Sierra Leone Embassy in Washington, has repatriated a deprived Sierra Leonean and her daughter from Jamaica. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on Thursday, 4th March, 2021, presented the repatriated Sierra Leoneans to the Ministries of Social Welfare and Higher and Technical Education...Read More
The Persons with Disability Act was passed in May 2011. Ten years later, persons with disabilities (PWDs) cannot receive a Permanent Disability Certificate to make them eligible for all the rights and privileges provided under the Act. The New Direction Manifesto criticized the former government for failing to implement the provisions of the Act. Yet,...Read More
The Technical and Vocational Education (TVET) Directorate of the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education (MTHE), headed by Dr. Victor Massaquoi has on Wednesday February 3, 2021 engaged the Director General of Sierra Leone Local Content Agency, Fodeba Daboh, at the Agency’s office in Freetown. The purpose of the engagement is to increase partnership between...Read More
Rural-Urban migration with its resultant population growth in Freetown has led to encroachment on Aberdeen Creek and other areas which ought to be protected. This has led to the destruction of its natural vegetation of Mangroves and water pollution. It is a designated as one of the protected sites in Freetown the Capital City of...Read More
The Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL) has called for the harmonization of legislations relating to the cooperative sector as a way of ensuring proper coordination and regulation of the activities of cooperative organizations in the country. A representative of the Bank told stakeholders in the cooperative sector that failure by organizations to register with it...Read More
Freetown, Sierra Leone. Friday, 26 February 2021: The European Union (EU) Delegation in Sierra Leone has ended a five-day training programme on Environmental and Climate Change Reporting for 15 journalists from print and electronic media institutions across the country at the New Brookfields Hotel Conference Hall in Freetown. This training programme which was fully funded...Read More
Justice Miatta Maria Samba was sworn in on Tuesday as Justice of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone following her appointment by President Dr Julius Maada Bio and approval in Parliament on February 23, 2021. In her statement after the official signing, Justice Samba described the ceremony as a celebration of the girl child, adding...Read More
