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 the...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. I...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 from...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 for...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 the...Read More
