After losing two international test matches, the senior male national football team of Sierra Leone, Leone Stars were on Sunday, October 25, 2020, moved to a training camp in Bo City for intensive and undistracted training ahead of the highly anticipated back-to-back 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches against the Super Eagles of Nigeria...Read More
The Budget Advocacy Network (BAN) in its ‘2020 Revised Domestic Revenue and 2023 Revenue to GDP Target’ report has indicated that the National Revenue Authority (NRA) must raise at least 1.7% GDP per month on average in order to reach its target of 20% GDP ratio to revenue by 2023. The Report was launched on...Read More
The Parliament of Sierra Leone has on Tuesday October 27, 2020 approved a US$40 million loan agreement for the educational sector of the country. The loan agreements approved by Parliament are: 1. Loan Agreement between the Republic of Sierra Leone and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), Dated 19th October 2019; and 2. Loan...Read More
The Vice President Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh has reechoed President Julius Maada Bio’s commitment to support ecosystem governance. Vice President Jalloh referenced President Bio’s statement to the Sierra Leone House of Parliament last year to support ecosystem governance, noting that the recruitment of five hundred game/forest guards to patrol protected areas in Sierra Leone fulfils...Read More
President of the Union of Timber Factory Owners, Nimer A.Dayekh, who also doubles as the Managing Director of Nazadco Trading Company (SL) Limited, has called on President Bio to have a rethink about his decision to appoint a single agent in charge of exporting timber out of the country. He told Premier News recently that...Read More
Speaker of the regional Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament, His Excellency Sidie Mohamed Tunis has on Monday October 26, 2020 called on regional lawmakers to prioritize advocacy on the protection of the right to food. He comment came whilst serving as chair of a high level regional meeting with West and Central...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) southern regional office has concluded the ‘Deepening Integrity in Schools’ campaign and the popularization of the National Anti-Corruption Commission Creative Art Competition in various schools in Bo. The exercise which ran from the 19th to 23rd October, 2020 targeted seven schools: Government Secondary School, Bo, the Bo Commercial Secondary School, Queen...Read More
Orange-SL and Thinking Pink Foundation have on Monday October 26, 2020, continued the breast cancer awareness which they had started in Freetown. During the campaign, staff of Orange had their breasts checked for possible cancer causing infections. Speaking to pressmen at Orange headquarter, Hill Station in Freetown, Desmond Spaine, Corporate Social Responsibility/ Foundation Manager, Orange-SL, ...Read More
Godwin Jenner Newis, midwife in Kukuna town in Bramaia Chiefdom, Kambia District, has disclosed that the structure of the health centre is inadequate for the number of patients who usually visit the health facility for treatment causing the operations of the staff to be ineffective. According to Newis, the health centre has one room with...Read More
Guma Valley Water Company has handed over a 250 cubic meter concrete reservoir and a pipeline which has eight public stand posts to residents of IMATT in the Mountain Rural District in the west of Freetown. IMATT is a community with an estimated population of 20, 000. Representatives of the United Kingdom who funded the...Read More
