Minister of Health and Sanitation, Professor Alpha Wurie, while addressing health workers at the National Stadium last Tuesday, said government will recruit 3000 nurses by 2021 with a view to strengthening the health sector in the country. Professor Wurie made the statement at the opening ceremony of a recruitment process organized by the Health Service Commission...Read More
The Sierra Leone Police have arrested four people for an alleged case of murder of a five-year-old girl, Khadijah Madinatu Saccoh, whose autopsy report, lists manual strangulation (asphyial death), spinal cord injury, bitten tongue, vaginal and anal dilatation, finger nail excoriation, fracture of cervical vertebrae as the causes of her death. Mariatu Rashid, the Line Manager...Read More
The Sierra Leone government has on Monday June 22, 2020, received the second batch of medical supplies from the People’s Republic of China to support the fight against COVID-19. Speaking during the handing ceremony, the Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone, H.E. Hu Zhangliang, said that the donated items include 10,032 testing kits, 5,000 PPEs, 15,000 N95...Read More
The Civil Society Consortium on Accountability and Service Delivery has called on the Government of Sierra Leone to lift the temporal ban on timber transportation and give consideration to Domestic Board Sellers Association. The National Coordinator of the Civil Society Consortium, William Sao-Lamin told a news conference in Freetown on Monday that if the ban continues...Read More
Inspector Mohamed Sultan Sewa, a police commanding office attached to the Moyamba Police Station, on Thursday June 18, 2020, testified before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No.1 that one Abdul Turay, with ill will, wounded him deliberately and in the process also caused grave harm to his person. The accused person, Abdul Turay, is being preliminarily...Read More
