By Stephen V. Lansana A cross-section of staff from the Commercial Department at the Sierra Leone Water Company (SALWACO) last week completed a one-week study visit to the Guma Valley Water Company. The collaborative study, which was concluded on Friday, November 11, 2022, was gearing towards capacity building of sister institution. Managing Director of Guma,...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker In life we need people as life will be meaningless without people around us. Man was created to interact with others. That is why on Sunday, November 13, 2022, the Faith Tabernacle Ministries at the Bishop Johnson School Compound, Fourah Bay Road, Freetown celebrated its Annual Family Day and Thanksgiving Service...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh The Principal Magistrate of the Padempa Road Court No.1, Mark Ngegba on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 sentenced Mohamed Osman Kamara and Yeanoh Kargbo to 12 months in prison each and pay a fine of Le2000 (New Leone) to the State, while the second accused Ibriham Bangura should serve a jail term of...Read More
By Desmond Lewis Amnesty International Sierra Leone has written a letter to the Ministry of Internal Affairs seeking a meeting to discuss allegations of cross human rights violations including cruelty and degrading treatments meted on suspects in police custody. “As a right based organisation, we are seriously concerned about the increasing allegation of gross human...Read More
By Sallieu S Kanu An African Development Bank (AfDB) team comprised experts from the Finance, Social and Environmental Management, Procurement and Disbursemet Departments and the Sierra Leone Field Office (SLFO) have completed a five-day mission visit on the Freetown WASH and Aquatic Environment Revamping (WASHAERP) Project which is being implemented by the Guma Valley...Read More
By Ibrahim S. Bangura Team Lorem, a group of students of Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, on Thursday, November 10, 2022 received US$15,000 after being selected among the top twelve winners in the Global Imagen Ventures Youth Innovation Challenge recently. Dr. David Sengeh, Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education and Chief Innovation...Read More
By Ibrahim S. Bangura Sheku Gibril Koroma popularly known as Sheku G., a Sierra Leonean philanthropist based in London, will on Wednesday, November 16, 2022 commence the construction of the third mosque in Bramaia chiefdom in Kambia District, as one of his ways of helping humanity. Koroma said that he had built a mosque at...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka The principal magistrate of the Freetown Magistrate Court No 1, Magistrate Mark Ngeba on Monday, November 4, 2022 sentenced Yaya Kanu, Mohamed Kanu and Mariama Bah to one year in prison each and also pays a fine of Le1,000,000 (one million Leones) each to the State after they were found guilty of...Read More
By Abdulaziz Samura It is obvious that mobile service providers have contributed immensely to the development of the country. It is pertinent to state that if things continue to wallow in this fashion and nothing is done in terms of increasing the tariff on calls and data, there is tendency for mobile service providers to...Read More
By Sallieu S Kanu Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio on Thursday, November 10, 2022, received Sierra Leone’s Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) validation report, saying that the country’s achievement of a high score of 87.5 is truly remarkable and must be celebrated. “I want to start by congratulating the EITI validation team members...Read More
