The Eastern Regional office of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday January 27, 2021, held a well-attended customized sensitization meeting with residents and stakeholders of Largo Town, Nongowa Chiefdom, Kenema District. The meeting, which took place at the Largo Town ‘Barray’, was part of the Commission’s strategy to sustain engagements with communities, and update them...Read More
Conakry, Guinea, 29 Jan 2021 — Following a letter from His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio to President Alpha Conde, on Wednesday 27th, the former dispatched a high-level delegation to Guinea to engage the Guinean Government on the incursion into Yengah by the Guinean military and the closure of the main Sierra Leone – Guinea...Read More
The Director of the Decentralization Secretariat (DEC-SEC) in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Mr. Alex Bhonapha on Monday 25th January 2021 declared his intention to contest for the chairmanship of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) ahead of the party’s May 2021 National Delegates Convention assuring that he would be responsive to...Read More
The two front runners in the upcoming Sierra Leone Football Association elective congress, Madam Isha Johansen and Rodney Michael, and other aspirants vying for the vice and exco positions have called for peace, unity and a healthy elective football campaign. In an emotional short video, the two dynamic leaders delivered a joint statement where they...Read More
Justice Francis Banks Kamara has on January 26, 2021, convicted four people he found guilty of sexual penetration in Kailahun District, eastern Sierra Leone. Justice Banks Kamara, was presented to the people of Kailahun on 23th January 23, 2021, and is the first Judge resident in that district. The Hon. Judge has heard seventeen (17)...Read More
A group of people living with physical challenges working in a skills training centre in the east of Freetown have on Saturday January 30, 2021 appealed to Non-governmental organizations, the Government of Sierra Leone and other humanitarian organizations for tailoring, gara-tie-dying, carpentry and welding equipment. Both trainees and experts of the United Polio Brothers and...Read More
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, 30 January 2021 – The National School of Midwifery today held its thirty-fourth graduation ceremony for 102 state certified midwives after they completed 18 months of intensive training in midwifery. The theme for this year’s graduation ceremony was “Midwives with Women: Celebrate Demonstrate, Mobilise and Unite – Our time is now!” Keynote speaker at the graduation ceremony, Acting Minister of Health and Sanitation, Dr. Anthony Augustine Sandi, commended midwives for their integral role in reducing maternal...Read More
The Initiatives for Destitutes Empowerment and Sustainability (IDES) has on Saturday January 30, 2021, fed and provided clothes for children of scavengers mainly engaged collecting empty water sachets and other plastic wastes deposited at the Bomeh dumpsite in Kingtom. It should be noted that people collect plastic wastes at Bomeh dumpsite amidst the stench of...Read More
The Christian Lawyers Centre, also known as LEGAL LINK in this piece, has expressed concern over the prolonged detention of the 2018 flag-bearer of the Alliance Democratic Party (ADP), Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray who is standing trial on allegations of sexually penetrating a 15-year-old girl in Kono district. Kamarainba Mansaray reported to the police on July...Read More
Several communities in Tenenba, a section of Bramaia Chiefdom in Kambia District northern Sierra Leone, have benefitted from eight water wells funded by stakeholders in the community. According to Kabir Sumah, an elder in Tenenba, the beneficiary communities had been without water from boreholes for decades with their inhabitants drawing water from rivers, streams and...Read More
