For the first time since March 2020, families and friends will be allowed to visit inmates at the Freetown Male Correctional Centre on Pademba Road beginning next week. The Sierra Leone Correctional Service (SLCS) announced on Monday that it will open its facility to families and friends on Tuesday November 3, 2020. “The SLCS is...Read More
Ballanta Academy of Music and the Performing Arts have on Sunday October 25, 2020 celebrated it 25 years of existence at the AYV auditorium at Wesley in Freetown. To mark the occasion, different performers from the Academy: Emmanuel Bishop, a violist; Ibrahim S.Bangura, a flutist; band which sings in chapel style and sometimes accompanied by...Read More
State House, Freetown, Thursday 22 October, 2020 – The new United Nations Resident Coordinator to Sierra Leone, Babatunde Ahonsi, has called on President Dr Julius Maada Bio to present his letter of appointment by the UN Secretary General. ”It is with utmost humility and great honour that I present my credentials as the United Nations...Read More
President Dr Julius Maada Bio has on Thursday October 22, 2020, commissioned four inshore patrol boats donated by the South Korean government to the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) at the White Man’s Bay Navy headquarters in Freetown. Commander of the Maritime Wing, Captain Navy Philip Juana, told the ceremony that the role...Read More
The National COVID-19 Emergency Response Centre (NaCOVERC) will scale down its personnel by minimum of 40 percent from November 1, 2020, a senior official of NaCOVERC said on Friday. The Spokesperson of NaCOVERC, Solomon Jamiru Esq. said in statement on Friday that “this decision was reached at a workforce rationalization conference held from 19-21 October...Read More
The Executive Director of the Legal Aid Board, Ms. Fatmata Claire Carlton-Hanciles has on Tuesday, 20 October 2020 reconciled a client of the scheme Abdul Rhaman Bangura, 30, and his mother Zainab Koroma. This follows his discharged by the court on the same date. The usual post-discharge briefing ceremony for newly released clients took place...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) employs prevention as a strategic tool to curb corruption, especially in public sector institutions, through the dissemination of relevant education and information and customized meetings, among several methods. In this respect the Commission’s office in Kono, on 22nd October 2020, held a fruitful customized meeting with the management and staff of...Read More
Some Civil Society Organizations in Sierra Leone have shown grave concern over Parliament’s recent suspension of four MPs, including Hon. Hindolo Moiwo Ngevao, an anti-corruption whistleblower, from participating in parliamentary committee proceedings even without having found them culpable of any wrongdoing. The CSOs are urging Parliament to reinstate the four. The four Members of...Read More
The Sierra Leone Civil Aviation Authority (SLCAA) has in a press release on Wednesday October 21, 2020, disproved assertions made in a letter addressed to the authority by Air Cote d’Ivoire indicating that they would temporarily suspend flight to the country because their indicators have shown a massive loss on the Freetown route since they...Read More
Abdul Salam Turay, director of New Generation Network, a local movie making organization in Sierra Leone, will release a film titled: “Lohe and Lohehe,” at the end of October 2020. He spoke to Premier news on Wednesday October 21, 2020, saying that the Title of the Movie is a set of names in Mende...Read More
