By Desmond Tunde Coker Bo Rangers have again won the Sierra Leone Premier League for the second time in a row this weekend after defeating their arch rivals Wusum Stars from Makeni by 2-0 at the newly built 600 Southern Arena in Bo. Abu Komeh and Suffian Kaloko scored to make sure the title remains...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu State House, Freetown, Friday 30 June 2023 – Sixteen Tribal Heads from across the Western Area Rural and Urban have called at the Presidency to congratulate His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio and his Vice President, Dr Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh on their re-election, expressed hope for the success of their...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker The Western Area Football Association membership has on Friday, June 30th, 2023 re-elected Pastor Phillip Buck as their Chairman for a second term of four years. The election was held at the Senior Police Officers Mess, at Kingtom in Freetown. The election was held after the incumbent’s four-year mandate expired, making...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu The former Attorney General and Minister of Justice has supported calls from some sections of the society for the All People’s Congress (APC) party to seek legal redress challenging the outcome of the June 24 President Election. European election observers in Sierra Leone said there were “statistical inconsistencies” in the...Read More
By DOMINIC MORRELL Coffee developers in Sierra Leone have offered hope for climate-resilient solutions as rising temperatures and changes in rainfall threaten to wipe out more than half of the world’s coffee production. Significant progress has been achieved in a Sierra Leonean project to recultivate a historic local species better adapted to higher temperatures. Stenophylla...Read More
By Stephen V. Lansana The leadership of the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party has on Friday, June 30, 2023 declared that it will not participate in all the levels of governance, including the legislature and local councils, in protest against their belief that the results of the June 24 general elections had been tampered...Read More
By Stephen V. Lansana In the wake of the recently concluded June 24 elections in Sierra Leone, the Fifty-Fifty Group has on Friday, June 30, 2023 expressed serious concern with the current trend of cyber-bullying targeted at female political leaders and heads of election observer missions. The Activist Group implores the public to recognize that...Read More
Police in Sierra Leone have fired tear gas at the main opposition party’s headquarters in the capital Freetown as voters await the results of a fiercely fought general election. The opposition’s presidential candidate Samura Kamara of All People’s Congress (APC) said on Twitter that live bullets had been fired at his office inside the party...Read More
By George M.O. Williams Partial results announced by the Electoral Commission Siera Leone (ECSL) on Monday put the presidential Candidate of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), Dr Julius Maada Bio on the lead in the presidential race. Bio pulled 1,067, 666 votes while his main rival Dr. Samura Kamara of the opposition All Peoples...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu National Commission for Democracy (NCD) has called on all those involved in the electoral process including the electorates to keep calm and remain focused as the destiny of the country is decided based on the will of the people as expressed in the ballot boxes on Saturday, June 24, 2023. “Everybody...Read More
