Health facilities are constrained to access to pipe borne water and electricity, medical supplies and drugs, immunization vaccine, nutritional services for under-five children and accommodation, according to a report by Health Alert Sierra Leone. This disclosure was made by the organisation during an accountability forum on the health sector in Bombali and Tonkolili districts recently....Read More
Fourah Bay College (FBC), one of the three constituent colleges of the University of Sierra Leone (USL), has on February 18, 2021 celebrated its 194th year of academic excellence in a modest ceremony held at the Ajayi Crowther Amphitheater, FBC Campus with the theme: “FBC Repositioning itself for Transformation in the 21st Century Sierra Leone”....Read More
Sierra Leone Ambassador to Egypt, Morie Fofana has been honored in Egypt to officially open the first-ever export and trade fair organized by Hnsana W. Nsadar in Cairo during an official ceremony held on Thursday, February 11, 2021. The ceremony was themed: “we will produce and export”. The aim of the Trade Fair is to...Read More
Sierra Leone’s President Dr. Julius Maada Bio has on Saturday, February 20, 2021, visited a youth skills training programme targeting about 1,540 young people learning road construction at the Bandajuma-Liberia border road project funded by the European Union (EU). He thanked partners for this possible, among them, the EU Ambassador, Tom Vens; the head of...Read More
President Dr. Julius Maada Bio has said on Friday, February 19, 2021, that in 18 months his government will build and furnish a Junior and Senior Secondary School of Excellence exclusively for girls. He made the disclosure during a visit in Pujehun district, southern Sierra Leone. “It will cater for 300 pupils…It will be a...Read More
The Regional Manager of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has on Tuesday, February 17, 202,1 called on Principals and Head Teachers in Masiaka and its environs to stand up against bribery in schools and support the fight against corruption. In his address to heads of primary and secondary schools at the Bishop George Catholic Secondary School...Read More
The Director of Media and Communications of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Philip F. Kargbo has assured electorates in Kailahun of free, fair and nonviolence by-elections. His comment came following the political violence and tension that arose between supporters of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) and an Independence candidate that led to the...Read More
The GIZ and Sierra Leone Local Content Agency (SLLCA) in collaboration with other Ministries, Departments and Agencies have on Wednesday, February 17, 2021, held a Regional Resource Governance (ReGo) stakeholder consultation at the Hotel Barmoi in Freetown. The workshop was well attended by representatives from the, Ministry of Mines and Minerals Resources, Environment Protection Agency...Read More
The European Union Delegation in Sierra Leone has on Monday February 22, 2021, launched a five-day training programme on environmental and climate change reporting for 15 selected journalists from various media institutions across the country. The training which is held at the New Brookfields Hotel Conference Hall in Freetown is dispensed by The Economic Forum...Read More
Before the current health crisis, experts and organizations worldwide were ringing the alarm of a different pandemic, driven by criminal minds: the counterfeit or fake medicine industry that affects people in the entire world, including Sierra Leone. The Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone is responsible to detect, confiscate and destroy fake medication in the country,...Read More
