By Stephen V. Lansana The Sierra Leone Insurance Association (SLIA) on Tuesday November 8, 2022 commenced a two-day insurance seminar on the theme: Building Trust and Confidence in the Insurance Industry, at the District Women’s Fellowship Hall, King Harman Road, Brookfields, in Freetown. The seminar was well attended by stakeholders in the insurance industry and...Read More
On Thursday 3 November 2022, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the World Food Programme (WFP), Talking Drum Studio (TDS) and the Sierra Leonean and Guinean authorities officially unveiled two border posts in Koindukura (Falaba district) and Hérémakono (Faranah prefecture) and 50 hectares of Inland Valley Swamps (IVS) implemented under the project ‘Building cross border...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, the defence counsel in the ongoing trial of Mayor Aki-Sawyerr has on Friday 4th November, 2022 objected to the tendering of findings and observations contained in a witness report which had been reduced into writing. He noted that certain paragraphs in the said report are highly prejudicial and will...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh The Judiciary of Sierra Leone has, in a statement it put out on Friday, informed the general public that the Special High Court Criminal Sessions will be held for the first time in Segbwema Town, Kailahun District with 14 cases and Kambia Town, Kambia District with 24 cases from the 7th to...Read More
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) is assisting its counterpart in Sierra Leone, the Petroleum Regulatory Agency (PRA), to improve efficiency in regulating the petroleum downstream in that country. A team led by its Executive Chairman, Dr. Brima Baluwa Koroma said they were in Ghana to share and learn experiences in terms of structures, processes, policies...Read More
The Committee on Gender and Children’s Affairs in the Parliament of Sierra Leone chaired by Hon. Catherine Zainab Tarawally, has on Monday, October 31, 2022 concluded an oversight inspection on the Rainbow Centres in Pujehun, Kenema and Kailahun Districts respectively. The One Stop and Rainbow Centres were established in some Government Hospitals across the country...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh Syril Harold Smith, a man who identified himself as an Investigative Journalist, was on Friday 4th November, 2022 arraigned and admitted to bail in the sum of NLe 200, 000 after he made his first appearance before Magistrate Mark Ngegbe of Pademba Road Court No.1 in Freetown on the crime of fraudulent...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu Sierra Leone has again recorded very high score (79 percent) in the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) ‘Control of Corruption’ indicator, making it the fifth consecutive year the country recording huge progress in the MCC scorecard. Sierra Leone has consistently recorded outstanding scores in the MCC ‘Control of Corruption’ Scorecard, with 71...Read More
By Stephen V. Lansana The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) and the National Security Sector institutions on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, join the world to commemorate the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, and to reiterate their collective commitment to work together and with other stakeholders to ensure the safety and...Read More
By Stephen V. Lansana The Sierra Leone Local Content Agency (SLLCA) in collaboration with GIZ, a German Cooperation, and its partners on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, concluded a three-day stakeholders’ workshop on the review of the Local Content Agency Act 2016 in Freetown. The review process is supported by GIZ under the Regional Intergovernmental Organization...Read More
