By Fatima Kpaka UNFPA Representative, Ms. Nadia Rasheed and the Chargé d’Affairs of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China, Mr. Li Xiaoyong, on Friday, August, 19, visited the King Harman Maternal and Child Health Hospital and the Ross Road Community Health Centre, two of nine health facilities in the country providing cervical cancer screening...Read More

By Desmond Tunde Coker The Chairman of the Sierra Leone Cricket Association (SLCA), Francis Trevor Samura and the Cricket Development Coordinator for southern region, Salia Eric Kamson Kamara are among 20 tutors in Africa certified by the International Cricket Council (ICC) to conduct Cricket Coaching Level 1 course and to certify successful candidates. All 20...Read More

By Fatima Kpaka Sierra Leone President Dr Julius Maada Bio on Thursday August 18, 2022, met the leaderships of civil society organisations, CSOs, the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists, SLAJ, and the Sierra Leone Bar Association, SLBA, what he calls a simple irregular disruption of the country’s democracy by a few people on 10 August...Read More

By Desmond Tunde Coker Popular blogger Juliana D. Conteh who won the just concluded Housemates Salone season 3 television reality show on Friday, August 19, received here cash prize of Le250 million (old currency) and got an ambassador role alongside Almon Sall for Afrimoney. The event was held at Africell headquarters in Freetown. speaking during...Read More

Under its umbrella association named Commercial Agricultural Producers and Processors Association (CAPPA), the body has provided over 12,300 jobs nationwide of which 25% are women. CAPPA members now have Sierra Leoneans in senior management teams with over 30 Sierra Leoneans employed in management positions which will grow as more experience and skills are developed.CAPPA was formed...Read More

A 24-year-old Bockarie Kanneh has been committed to the high Court for proper trial after it was ruled by Magistrate Peter Gogra of Pademba road court No.6 in Freetown that he has a case to answer. The accused was arraigned on one count charge of Fraudulent Conversion contrary to section 20 (1) (iv) (a) of...Read More

By George M.O. Williams Hundreds of traders mostly women have been rendered jobless when security personnel destroyed their stalls along the Sani Abache Street in the central business district of Freetown during a curfew on Wednesday. Security personnel have now been stationed to enforce a non-trading regulation in Abacha Street. This comes few weeks to...Read More