Bollore Transport and Logistics has on Friday, January 29, 2021, donated €5, 000 (Five thousand Euros), food items which include fifty bags of rice, cooked food and cutleries, crates of water and assorted soft drinks, and frames for symbolic display of the two organizations’ logos, to Don Bosco Fambul. The donation was made at the...Read More
The 50-50 Group of Sierra Leone, a group which advocates gender parity for women in the Country, has in a press statement dated 31st January 2021, lauded the efforts and achievements of three prominent women: Justice Miatta Samba, Dr. Hannah Max-Kyne and Mrs. Lara Taylor Pearce, for playing instrumental roles in Sierra Leone. The Group...Read More
President Dr Julius Maada Bio has on Wednesday attended the state funeral of the late Flt Lt Jerry J. Rawlings, the first President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana who passed away on November 12, 2020, aged 73. In his tribute to the late former President of Ghana, His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio stated:...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has on Thursday January 28, 2021, informed the public in a press statement that Sierra Leone has made progress by moving two places, from 119 in 2019 to 117 out of 180 countries surveyed in the 2020 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (TI-CPI). According to the ACC, while making these progresses,...Read More
Ibrahim Sorie Kabbah, popularly known as Daddy Rhymes, a Sierra Leonean musician based in Canada, has recently released a video of his new song titled ‘Get Loose’. The song highlights the seductive power of women over men. He said there are women who have what it takes to lure seemingly strong men sweep them off...Read More
The Consortium of Civil Society Organizations on Social and Economic Justice has called on the Government of Sierra Leone to amicably resolve the matter between itself and Chinese Gouji Development and Investment Company. The Chinese-owned Company was brought into Sierra Leone by Late President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah in 2003, and in 2004 the Government...Read More
The Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL) has on Thursday January 28, 2021 drew the attention of the Government of Sierra Leone through media practitioners on findings of a national conference which concluded that the constitutional review process should he restarted in Sierra Leone. It could be recalled that CARL with support from...Read More
Traders in a market at Pepeh Wharf in Tombo, a ‘village’ in the Western Rural District have on Thursday January 11, 2021, said that there is no toilet in the market which has necessitated open air defecation along the seashore in the wharf. According to Adama Jalloh, the Deputy Chairlady in the market, for over...Read More
Three Artists from Sierra Leone have been nominated for International music Awards to take place later this year. Benjamin Menelik George, aka Drizilik was nominated in the category of Listeners’ Choice in the Music Television (MTV) Base Awards 2021, alongside Tiwa Savage of Nigeria, Khaligraph Jones of Kenya etc. This Award ceremony will be hosted...Read More
Debt service relief is a key instrument for countries to manage the impact of the COVID crisis. The IMF in April 2020 launched an urgent fundraising effort that would enable its Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust Fund (CCRT) to provide further debt service relief to countries most seriously affected by the COVID-19 crisis. Initially established...Read More
