By Sallieu S. Kanu The new Board of Directors of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAWIJ) has terminated the interim Executive effective 1st August 2023 for breach of corporate governance principles. The Board said in a statement on Monday that the decision to terminate the Interim Executive came after a thorough review of several...Read More
By George M.O.Williams Sierra Leone’s Gross international reserves has declined to US$523.80 million as at the end of June 2023, from US$610.42 million as at end December, 2022, due to increase in payments for debt service and goods and services, according the 2023 government statement of economic and financial policies which was read in Parliament...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh The Parliament of Sierra Leone on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 approved the First Report of The Committee on Appointments and the Public Service in the Sixth Parliament, chaired by the Majority Leader and Leader of Government Business, Hon. Mathew Sahr Nyuma. The presidential nominees were approved by Parliament are: Mr. Sheku Fantamadi...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu More than 227,000 pupils from 435 Junior and Senior Secondary Schools (52 in Bombali; 50 in Port Loko; 44 in Kono; 49 in Kenema; 93 in Western Area Rural and 147 in Western Area Urban Districts) benefitted from theUN Peace Building Fund and UNICEF project to the Legal Aid Board’s Anti...Read More
By George M.O. Williams The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA has established that flooding mostly occurred in August and September in Sierra Leone, thus warned everyone to take precautionary measures. The Director of Communications at NDMA, Mohamed L. Bah told Premier News on Monday that, so far amid all the downpour of rain, there is...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu The campaign to eliminate Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is gaining ground in the northern district of Port Loko. Sixty Soweis on Monday, July 24, 2023, made public declaration to drop their knife, razor, and other instruments which they normally use to remove clitoris of girls and women during the Bondo initiation....Read More
FREETOWN, July 24 (Xinhua) — A delegation of three Chinese medical doctors on Monday was received in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, to help the country fight cervical cancer. The doctors, who are from China’s Hunan Provincial Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, are expected to spend more than two weeks offering technical support...Read More
Kenya’s Junior Cricket Men’s Team began their ICC Under-19 Men’s World Cup Africa Qualifier (50 Overs) on a winning note following a four-wicket win over Sierra Leone yesterday following Sunday’s opening day washout against hosts Tanzania. The West Africans had won the toss selecting to bat first and in the process posted a total of...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker Serra Leone’s back-to-back champions Bo Rangers will start the first-round preliminary campaign against Liberian side LISCR. The winner will face Algeria Crbelouizdadoff in the next round. If Bo Rangers are fortunate to win the said tie, they will face last season’s group-stage Algeria side Crbelouizdadoff. In another development, FC Kallon will...Read More
The Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Sierra Leone, Brig. Gen. Prof. Foday Sahr on Monday, July 24, 2023 signed a “memorandum of agreement” with the Country Director of the faith-based international non-profit charitable organization, Mercy Ships. The trust of the agreement is a collaboration between USL and Mercy Ships for the training of...Read More
