With the lockdown resulting to restriction of both vehicular and human movements across cities in the country, business operations of the Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) have been greatly hampered, according to the recent National Survey on the Impact of COVID-19 on MSMEs conducted by Sierra Leone SME Forum, African Consulting Group, Business Coalition...Read More
News that the Public Order (Amendment) Act tabled in parliament for deliberation and approval five months ago had been withdrawn, sent shock waves across Sierra Leone. The rationale behind the withdrawal remained unclear until it was clarified by the Ministry of Information and Communications. It did not come as a surprise that the Ministry lost...Read More
Maccabaeus Eber, the CEO of Unique Multimedia, a non-profitable organization that aims at promoting African culture, empowering youths by exposing the talents in them, has disclosed to Premier News on Saturday June 6, 2020, that the organization has produced over 67 musicians since it was established in January 2020 in Freetown. CEO Eber said that,...Read More
Alusine G. Conteh aka Kronic X, a local musician in the East-end of Freetown, has told Premier News that he has recently released a song to raise awareness in the battle against the deadly Coronavirus pandemic. He made the statement in an interview with this medium on Sunday June 7, 2020, during which he further...Read More
Crime Statistician of the Sierra Leone Police, Sergeant Allen Mohamed Koroma has on Tuesday June 9, 2020, disclosed that the rate of crime has increased from about 61, 783 in 2018 to 75, 729 cases in 2019. Out of the 75,729 cases reported in 2019, the Legal and Justice Support Department of the Sierra Leone...Read More
Citizens in Freetown are disregarding the use of face mask as prescribed by the government of Sierra Leone in the fight against the deadly Coronavirus pandemic. Abdulai Tholley, a businessman in Lumley, told Premier News on Monday that using the face mask reduces the proper intake of oxygen and causes him difficulty in breathing. “The...Read More
The Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF), in a bid to help fight the Global Pandemic has distributed a huge consignment of Corona Virus (COVID-19) preventive materials to three Chiefdoms in the Tonkolili district. The timely intervention of SiLNoRF in distributing the preventive materials with support from BMZ through Welt Hunger Hilfe...Read More
Malik Koroma, the supervisor at a garbage dumpsite at Kissy in the East-end of Freetown, has told Premier News on Thursday April 4, 2020, that the laborers at the site have no medical attention, and tools to do their work which has slowed down their operations and negatively affected their health. Koroma said that the...Read More
The President of Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), Ahmed Sahid Nasralla, is optimistic that Part 5 of the Public Order Act of 1965 would be expunged by members of the Sierra Leone Parliament. His comment came in a virtual meeting on Friday to commemorate the Association’s 49th anniversary in the wake of Parliament’s recent withdrawal...Read More
In a country where almost half of the population is not consuming enough nutrients to live a healthy life, poverty often drives girls to work on the streets. Some young teenagers work in prostitution to earn money to meet their basic needs. The mentor (Mammy Queen) of a group of commercial sex workers at Lumley,...Read More
