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 texture...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 (WHH),...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 lack...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 of...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, Blessing...Read More
