By Abu Bakarr Kargbo Over Le 300 million is needed to rebuild the City Media Center in Makeni City following a devastation caused by heavy rainstorm on Thursday, September 1, 2022. The Management in Makeni is currently worried following a thunderstorm that swept through Field Road in Makeni City taking away the roofs of the...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker Osman Yaah, the founder and CEO of Auto-Smart irrigation Company SL, who innovated the use of mobile phones to provide water for farms within the Country or any part of the world, has won Le 100, 000 (new Leones.) from Mobile Orange Mobile company. Orange Mobile company on September 1st, 2022 also...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu The Government of Sierra Leone has set up a cabinet Sub-committee to investigate claims by individuals and corporate bodies to ownership of a piece land in and around the Hastings Airfield, the Ministry of Transport and Aviation said in a statement it put out on Monday 5 September 2022. This...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker The Inter Community Football League organised by the Central One Football Association COFA commenced on Sunday September 4TH 2022 with the First Lady Fatima Maada Bio taking the kick-off when Summer City locked horns with Fourahbay. A brace from Summer City’s Momoh Dumbuya was enough to silence the noisy Fourahbay Community....Read More
In January 2005, Sierra Leone became a State party to the 1972 Convention and identified, in 2012, in its first Tentative List the sites that could potentially be proposed for inscription on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. This year, in January 2022, this Tentative List was updated to include Gola-Tiwai complex as the potential site for the country’s...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu Relatives of the late Hassan Dumbuya aka Evangelist Samson, who was slayed by security personnel early August, has demanded that his corpse be handed over to them for befitting burial at his hometown in Makeni. Evangelist Samson was an ardent critic of the Bio Administration. His video and audio recordings are...Read More
By: Edward Nathaniel Blake, Public Education Officer ACC-Kenema The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) eastern region office on Wednesday, August 17, 2022, engaged the hospital management of the Kenema Government Hospital on various corruption allegations. The allegations range from the proliferation of the free health care drugs in markets, to the illegal purchase and sale of “plumpy-nuts”...Read More
By: David Yusuf Kabia, Public Relations Assistant, ACC The Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Francis Ben Kaifala Esq., after delivering the soul touching and inspirational Keynote Address to youths in Makeni at the jam-packed Auditorium on 27th August, 2022, drove to Magburaka where he had an engagement with eminent personalities of the University Court...Read More
Newly established global estimate on hygiene reveals the risk of disease spread and infections to patients and health care providers 30 AUGUST 2022 | Geneva, New York – Half of health care facilities worldwide lack basic hygiene services with water and soap or alcohol-based hand rub where patients receive care and at toilets in these...Read More
By Sallies S. Kanu On August 29, 2022, U.S. Ambassador David Reimer joined the leadership of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and other dignitaries to congratulate graduates of the Field Epidemiology Training Program, which trains “disease detectives” to investigate outbreaks of disease and find ways to prevent future outbreaks. The 12th cohort of the...Read More