By Fatima Kpaka Freetown, January 15, 2025—Following its third sitting on queries raised by the Auditor General regarding the accounts of Sierra Leone for the financial year 2023, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), under the leadership of Hon. Ibrahim Tawa Conteh, has unanimously passed a resolution aimed at ensuring the efficient and effective handling of imprest...Read More
King Charles meeting comes a day after he greeted Iraq’s prime minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani by Web Desk King Charles held an audience with President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone at Dumfries House in Cumnock, Scotland. The monarch, who is still undergoing cancer treatment, warmly welcomed President Bio on Wednesday. The two leaders appeared in good...Read More
By George M.O. Williams Freetown, January 15, 2025—The Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL), Dr Ibrahim Stevens has called on commercial banks and mobile money operators to engage in sensitization and effective marketing of the Instant Payment system. This call was made during a float parade at the Central Bank Frontage on Siaka Stevens...Read More
By Adebayo Johnson Freetown, January 14, 2025—The Director of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, Eric Masalay, has announced that the Ministry will discontinue the issuance of temporary approval for Service Level Agreements (SLAs) of non-funded projects. He stressed that any NGO or INGO operating without a signed SLA and proper...Read More
By Juliana Adama Vandy, Stratcom – MOICE During the weekly government press briefing on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, the Minister of Trade and Industry, Ibrahim Alpha Sesay, updated journalists on a new pricing formula aimed at reducing rice prices in Sierra Leone. The Minister explained that to effectively control or regulate the prices of essential commodities,...Read More
