By Ibrahim S.Bangura Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA), an annual music awards designed to promote African music has recently nominated Aminata Bangura, aka Nata, a US-based Sierra Leonean rapper, for the category of ‘Best Female Rap Act’ 2023 due to her rich ‘lyrics and songs contents’. Nata has been nominated among other renowned African stars, like,...Read More
By Matt Le Cren Naperville North’s Hindo Allie missed nearly a week of classes, a game and several practices while he was out of town. But the senior midfielder had an excellent excuse to give Huskies coach Jim Konrad. “He called me and said, ‘Hey, coach, I’ve got great news. Bad news is I’m going to...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh Mohamed Alie Bangura and Abubakar Sawaneh have made another appearance before Magistrate Sahr Kekura of Ross Road Court No .1 for allegedly conspiring with unknown persons to defraud Ansumannah Gbessay Conteh and Alusine Kargbo thousands of Leones pretending that they would facilitate their travelling to Canada knowing same to be false. The...Read More
The National Women’s Cricket Team has departed Sierra Leone for Botswana. Before their departure they bade farewell to the Minister of Sports, Madam Augusta James-Teima and her Deputy, Kai Lawrence Mbayo (KLM) at their Bishop House office in Freetown, where Cricket Chairman, Francis Trevor Samura gave a rundown of their scheduled trip from Freetown to...Read More
By Ibrahim S. Bangura Land ownership within the Western Area for construction of houses will take vegetable farmers out of job. Abu Bakarr Koroma Dumbuya, chairman of vegetable growers in Leicester, a village in the mountains overlooking Freetown, has said that recently land ownership within the community has limited the volume of their produce...Read More
The state-of-the-art facility will bring huge improvements to care in the country but it is also challenging gender roles in the construction industry Katy Fallon in Kono In Kono District, in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone, where diamond-rich earth was once exploited to fund a decade-long civil war, a new legacy is being built in its...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu Since 2015, the service provider for the Sierra Leone Passport, Netpage, has been complying with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) new book design that was launched, and at the same time switched to e-passport from machine readable passport (MRP) book re-signed in 2022. Also, the company instituted an electronic upgrade...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu State House, Freetown, Thursday 31 August 2023 – Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio has reiterated his commitment to the Constitutional Review Process. His comment came at a meeting with the Executive of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) on post-repeal engagements and the All Political Parties’ Association (APPA)...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu United States will pursue visa restrictions for persons believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining democracy in Sierra Leone, including through the manipulation or rigging of the electoral process; intimidation of voters, election observers, or civil society organizations through threats or acts of physical violence; or the abuse or...Read More
The Government of Sierra Leone, through the Sierra Leone Roads Authority (SLRA), has awarded the contract to Consulting Engineers Group (CEG) for the Design Review and Construction Supervision for the upgrading of the Kailahun-Buedu Road. The contract between SLRA and CEG was signed by the Director General, Ing. Amara Jambai Kanneh and Director Bernard Obika...Read More
