The Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, has recently engaged the Krio Descendants Union and clarified certain crucial aspects of Freetown City Council’s (FCC) property rates and business license reform. During the discussions, Mayor Aki-Sawyerr explained that the new property rates is a fundamental change in the method of valuing real property which increased the rates...Read More
Detective Sergeant 1516 Conteh Abu attached to the crime writers/ exhibit office, C.I.D headquarters, Pademba Road has on Tuesday June 23, 2020 presented three old cutlasses and an old red t-shirt as exhibit before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No.1 on Pademba Road in a matter in which six persons are accused of kidnapping Nathaniel...Read More
The Sierra Leone Cricket Association (SLCA) was to hold its Annual General Meeting on Saturday June 20, 2020, at the Presidential Identical Lounge of the Siaka Steven Stadium but has postponed it as a need to abide by social distancing necessitated by the outbreak of Coronavirus in the country and the banning of all sporting...Read More
The Skills Development Fund Secretariat (SDFS) at the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education has on Tuesday June 23, 2020, engaged stakeholders on a US$22 million World Bank funded Development Skills Project with assistance from the Government of Sierra Leone, at the Atlantic Hall in Freetown. Grant Specialist for the Secretariat, Sallieu Barrie said that...Read More
Across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has led people to fear accessing healthcare facilities. As a paediatrician working for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Kenema District, and as we enter malaria season, I am particularly fearful of what reduced health seeking behavior may mean for children in a country with a high rate of child mortality....Read More
Joseph A.B. Bangura, a creative artist and craftsman with disability, has on Thursday June 18, 2020, told Premier News that involving in Creative Arts could transform the life of any human being. He made this statement while he was being interviewed at his J. Mata Creative Arts Studio which is about a hundred meter away...Read More
After hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Sierra Leone calling for justice for a five-year-old girl who was raped and murdered, Marta Colomer, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for West and Central Africa, said: “The outpouring of rage following this horrific crime shows that people in Sierra Leona have had enough of impunity...Read More
Salamatu Bangura aka Sale Bangs, a 17-year-old Sierra Leonean musician residing in Guinea Conakry, has on Thursday June 18, 2020 told Premier News that she has recently released a single song titled ‘Saya’ meaning ‘dead’, a tribute song for her mother who died when she was a child. Bangs said that the idea to release...Read More
Honorable Music Empire, a local entertainment label in the Regent community, in colaboration with local musicians: Justice, Sia Hana and Joe Dyce, has on Tuesday June 16,2020 released a single titled ‘No Cry Africa’. Justice, a musician who featured in the song, said that it had been inspired by oppressions Africans are undergoing by the...Read More
The Area Manager of the Guma Valley Water Company in the east of Freetown, Joseph Wandoh has said on Wednesday June 17, 2020, that human activities, especially the cutting down of trees from areas which are supposed to be forest reserved areas, is a reason for insufficient supply of water in communities in Freetown. Wandoh...Read More
