Systems Integrator Pine Networks provides comprehensive disaggregated network solution with IP Infusion SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 31, 2023–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IP Infusion, manufacturer of carrier-grade networking software, announced today that Pine Networks, a systems integrator based in Paris, has chosen its OcNOS® Network Operating System to provide a disaggregated networking solution for Africell, a mobile services provider based in...Read More
By George M.O. Williams The Sierra Leone Police (SLP) has on Monday, July 31,2023, informed the general public that its personnel have arrested certain individuals, including senior military officers who according to the SLP had been working to undermine the peace and unleash violence in the Sierra Leone. The SLP informed the public about the...Read More
By Ibrahim S. Bangura Residents of Susan’s Bay, a slum community in Freetown, have on Monday, July 31, 2023, appealed for the Freetown City Council (FCC) to open five newly constructed toilet facilities for use to avoid open defecation at the wharf. Eight months ago, after the community experienced a fire disaster, residents found it...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka The Parliament of Sierra Leone has on Monday, July 31, 2023, debated and approved the Supplementary Appropriation Act 2023. The Act seeks to revise and make supplementary provision for the Services of Sierra Leone, 2023. The budget is estimated at Three Billion, Six Hundred and Eighty-Five Million, Five Hundred and Ninety Four...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka Momodu Bah, a sixty-year-old man, is being investigated before Magistrate Sahr Kekura for allegedly breaking into and stealing the sum of NLe152, 400 from a foreign exchange bureau owned by one Rahim Mohamed. Magistrate Kekura of court No 1. Ross Road admitted the 60-year-old to bail in the sum of NLe 500,000...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu The Government of Sierra Leone has disbursed NLe274.6 million (US$13 million) as subsidy to the Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA) for the first half of 2023. This disclosure was made by the Finance Minister Sheku Fantamadi Bangura when presenting the 2023 Government Supplementary Budget and statement of economic and financial...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu The Government of Sierra Leone faces a revenue shortfall in the day-to-day spending for the second half of 2023, according to the 2023 supplementary budget which was presented in Parliament by the Ministry of Finance. Sheku Fantamadi Bangura said that revenue collected during the first half of 2023 fell short of...Read More
Two CAF officials Emmanuel Newton Dasoberi, stadium inspection officer, and Randa Mohamed Ezzeldin Ibrahim Metwaly, travels and accommodation officer, on Saturday, July 28, 2023, successfully conducted inspection on the recently unveiled Southern Arena in Bo City. Ther inspection came ahead of the preliminaries of the TotalEnergies CAF Club Champions League in August. The CAF officials...Read More
By Ibrahim S. Bangura Mama Salone Children Foundation and Fashion Angency, an organisation that promotes Sierra Leone culture and entertainment, has recently launched a fashion show, ‘Cultural Runaway’ at the Wusum Hotel in Makeni. The fashion show is to promote the rich culture of Sierra Leone through entertainment. The launch which was attended by Patrick...Read More
By Kai Mansa-Musa Alice Sesay, a female auto engineer at You and I Garage, Upper Brook Street Freetown has told Premier News that her work has increased her income and contribution to the welfare of her family, and has reduced conflict with her husband. She got married in 2014 and together with the two kids...Read More
