Skills Development Fund Secretariat is setting up Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM), Committees in Kailahun and Kenema in the eastern region of Sierra Leone. This is as a result of proposals received for funding from Government Technical Institutions (GTIs), businesses and industry stakeholders, as part of the First Call for Concept Notes; owing to the fact...Read More
The Embassy of the Republic of Sierra Leone in the Guinean capital, Conakry, has in a press release dated Wednesday, October 14, 2020, stated that reports of Sierra Leoneans being harassed and molested in Conakry are false and deliberate. The release further stated that the Sierra Leone’s embassy in Conakry in collaboration with the Sierra...Read More
The National Coordinator of Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF), Mohammed S. Conteh has on Thursday, October 8, 2020, said that in the interest of Social Justice Leaders must ensure not only the equal treatment of equals but, also the unequal treatment of unequal. He made the comment while he spoke on...Read More
Thetechnical team representing the Ministry of Finance has on Tuesday October 13, 2020, observed that there were abnormalities in the budget presented by the Sierra Leone Cable Network (SALCAB) at the ongoing budget hearing held at the conference room of the Accountant General’s Administrative Building in Freetown. The team observed that there were inconsistencies in...Read More
The Southern Regional office of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has confronted public officers of the Sierra Leone Police, Immigration Department, the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF), National Minerals Agency (NMA) and the National Revenue Authority (NRA), deployed at the Sierra Leone-Liberia border town of Jendema, to address allegations of corruption received through the...Read More
The Sierra Leone Police (SLP) has on Saturday, October 10, 2020, warned cassette sellers to desist from selling or distributing the audios and video materials relating to the Thursday, October 8, 2020 incident in Makeni, which was transmitted on compact discs (CDs) and video compact discs (VCDs). It could be recalled that last Thursday, some...Read More
Faith Healing Agricultural Project (F.H.A.P) joins the list of history makers in the Agricultural sector in Sierra Leone when it officially launched its brand of rice to the public on Friday at the farm in Yainkassa village, Makari Chiefdom, Bombali District, northern Sierra Leone. The church’s FHAP project is geared towards making Sierra Leone food...Read More
An Economy in austerity, with domestic revenue to GDP ratio among the lowest in the sub region, plus the suspension of the economic programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that led to low donor confidence and support, was the situation in Sierra Leone before the 2018 general elections. This was the state of...Read More
In mid-May, 57% of workers reported that their employers had to temporarily lay them off due to the wider economic decline caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey conducted by the Research and Planning Division of the Ministry of Finance. Their findings captured the impacts of COVID-19 on businesses since Sierra Leone records...Read More
Happiness Foundation, a humanitarian organization founded by Prophetess Happy Abba, a Sierra Leonean philanthropist based in the United States of America, partnered with Youth Educative Network and on Saturday fed some bike riders and physically challenged persons at Congo Market and Pa Demba Road in Freetown. Emmanuel Patrick Robert, the Country Representative for Happiness Foundation...Read More
