By Sallieu S,Kanu IMF staff and the Sierra Leonean authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on economic policies to conclude the eighth and final review of the 60-month ECF financed program, releasing about US$20.4 million in financing once the review is formally completed by the IMF Executive Board, the IMF said in a statement on...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka The Minister of Finance, Sheku Ahmed Fantamadi Bangura, has called on Ministries, Departments and Agencies to stay within agreed projects and programmes in the 2024 budget. “To achieve the deliverables of the Big Five Game Changers, MDAS must implement only policies, programmes and projects that have been agreed in this Budget,” he...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka The Minister of Finance, Sheku Ahmed Fantamadi Bangura has on Friday, November 10, 2023, presented the Bill entitled “The Appropriation Act, 2024”, to Parliament with the theme, “Restoring Macroeconomic Stability While Protecting the Poor and the Vulnerable”. The event attracted Ministers of Government, international partners, professional heads of Government institutions, the media,...Read More
By Stephen V. Lansana The Sierra Leone Chapter of the West African Insurance Companies Association (WAICA) is hosting this year’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Education Conference with the theme: “Aligning Insurance Practice in the 21st century to serve public and private sectors”, at the Mamba Point Hotel, Lagoonda Resort, Aberdeen in Freetown. The three-day...Read More
Minister of Technical and Higher Education, Dr. Ramatulai Wurie has assured the Secretary-General of UNESCO and representatives of member countries of Sierra Leone’s commitment to partnering with the organisation to improve the educational sector. She made this assurance on Friday, November 10, 2023, in Paris during UNESCO’s 42nd General Conference. Dr. Wurie informed the conference...Read More
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Saturday 11 November 2023 – Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio has, in two separate developments, met His Excellency Dr Yousef bin Abdullah Al-Benyan, the Saudi Minister of Education and also engaged Yasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan, Governor of the Saudi Public Investment Fund, PIF, the sovereign wealth fund of...Read More
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Friday 10 November 2023 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio is part of a large number of African Presidents and Heads of State attending the Saudi-Africa Summit, where he hopes to share his government’s Big Five Gamechangers with global business leaders and Saudi partners. During his stay in...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu The stock of public debt increased slightly by 5.5 percent to NLe53.9 billion as at end June 2023 from NLe51.1 billion as at end December 2022, the Minister of Finance said on Friday while reading the 2024 Government Budget and Statement of Economic and Financial Policies in Parleament. Sheku Ahmed Fantamadi...Read More
The Lower Bambara Chiefdom Development Association (LoBDA) has unveiled a proposal for the establishment of a Committee for Accountability in the implementation of Community Development Funds. This sentiment where highlighted in the wordings of a letter addressed to the executive members of LoBDA. “We are writing to propose the creation of a dedicated committee responsible...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker Just after the discharge of the matter which was brought to the high court by Kamboi Eagles FC Executive, on Friday November 10, 2023, by Justice Adrian Fisher, the Leone Rock Premier League 2023/2024 is set to continue with exciting fixtures across the country on Tuesday and Wednesday. It could be...Read More
