One of the leading beverage companies in Sierra Leone, Kings Beverages has secured a US$5 million financing from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private arm of the World Bank. The signing of the loan agreement between IFC and Kings Beverage will take place on Thursday, March 31, 2022 at the new World Bank Group...Read More
Defence counsel, Lawyer JF Kamara has called on the trial Judge, Justice Adrian Fisher to ensure a speedy trial on the ongoing Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) hearing involving Samura Kamara and three others. He made this call on Monday, March 28, 2022. He said though the 1st prosecution witness Noah was sick that should not stop...Read More
After two years break owning to COVID-19 restrictions, the Murialdo Institute of Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology (MIMETECH) on Saturday, March 26, 2022 held their 14th annual graduation ceremony on their Low Cost Campus, Kissy in Freetown. This year’s ceremony covered students who had completed their courses in the 2018/2019 academic year, making the total number...Read More
An appeals Court Judge presiding case at the sexual model Court in Freetown, Justice Alhaji Momoh-Jah Stevens has convicted and sentenced 40-year-old Hassan Sesay to 45 years in prison for sexually penetrating his fiancée’s 9-year-old daughter and her two nieces ages 10, and 11, in 2021 in Freetown. He was charged under the 2019 amended...Read More
Nineteen residents of the Carlton Carew Community, closer to the Indian Temple on Wilkinson Road in the west end of Freetown, whose houses were gutted by a recent fire disaster, received a financial package from the Indian Community through the Indian Temple. The assistance is to help victims cope with the stress they are going...Read More
I have been following latest developments in the All People’s Congress Party since the party’s new constitution came to effect on March 25, 2022 after the Judge in the Alfred Peter Conteh’s case ordered for the setting up of a 21-Man Committee to adopt the new constitution of the All People’s Congress Party. Fast forward,...Read More
Freetown, 28 March, 2022-The Sports Writers Association of Sierra Leone (SWASAL) is concerned with the preponderance pace of rampant violence, clash, and hooliganism amongst fans, officials, and security forces in the country’s biggest football league-The Sierra Leone Premier League. SWASAL is shocked at the vicious incident that took place at the Bo Mini stadium in...Read More
They cast three people in each role, on the assumption that two would drop out before the final performance, and rehearsed most nights on an old basketball court in a girls’ secondary school, without overhead lights. For the University of Sierra Leone Theatre Group, the show would go on. “Can’t miss this play redefining the views about...Read More
January 15th, 1792, 15 ships departed from Halifax, Nova Scotia for Sierra Leone carrying 1,196 Black Nova Scotians, some 540 families. (Nova Scotia Museum)Read More
The National Centre for Vocational Studies (NCVS) on Sunday, March 37,2022 held it 39th graduation ceremony, where 20 graduands were awarded certificates at a convocation ceremony held at the Mount Zion Pentecostal Church in Freetown. Since NCVS its establishment in 1983, the institution has trained thousands of women who are gainfully employed in Ministries, Department...Read More
