Director, POED. In a community engagement on the work of the Commission and awareness raising on the Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) in the Social Safety Net (SSN) Program, of the COVID-19 Emergency Response, residents of Musaia Town, Dembelia, Musaia Chiefdom, Falaba District, North East Sierra Leone, embraced the anti-corruption messages conveyed by the ACC and...Read More
By Desmond Lewis The Chief Fire Officer, Ahmed N.A.A. KamandaBongay, has said that even though the National Fire Force is not up to standard, it is not in a deplorable condition. He told this medium in an exclusive interview that, he would not reveal how many fire engines are in the Country due to security...Read More
By George M.O.Williams The University of Sierra Leone had been unable to institute mechanism for the management of credible examinations processes according to the 2020 Auditor General’s report According to the Report it was observed that sampled examination scripts collected at the Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM) and Fourah Bay College (FBC) revealed...Read More
By George M.O. Williams The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources failed to institute effective monitoring, surveillance and control system of fishing activities according to the 2020 Auditor General’s report. The Report indicates that outstation fishing officers were not present to monitor activities of artisanal fishing vessels in landing sites and monofilament nets were still...Read More
By George M.O. Williams The Government of Sierra Leone would soon release the “Government’s White Paper on Constitutional Reforms” which it is hoped would account for gaps and lacunae in the 1991 constitution of Sierra Leone, President Dr. Julius Maada Bio said in his new year eve address to the nation. At the State Opening...Read More
By Alusine Sesay Maseray Sei, 21-year-old woman, has died as a result of excessive bleeding after her clitoris was cutat a Bondo bush in Nyandehun village, Imperri Chiefdom, Bonthe District on December 20, 2021, according to a statement from theForum Against Harmful Practices (FAHP), a coalition of 21 organizations working to end Female Genital Mutilation...Read More
Director, POED addressing benefeciaries at the meeting in Masingbi By: Alex A. Bah In a community sensitization Town Hall meeting held at the Ahmadiyya Secondary School, in Masingbi Town, Tonkolili District, North East Sierra Leone, on Tuesday 15th December, 2021, residents of the Konike-Sanda Chiefdom commended the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for its role in the...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu United Nations Secretary-General AntónioGuterres, with the host Government’s approval, has appointed Edward Kallon, a Sierra Leonean, as United Nation Resident Coordinator in Zimbabwe. He will also serve as Humanitarian Coordinator, and has already taken up his post on January 6. 2022. Mr. Kallon has devoted more than 30 years of his...Read More
Thelia Production in collaboration with the Ministries of Trade and Finance, and the Bank of Sierra Leone has on Thursday March 18th, 2021 ended a one day digital economy conference in exploring and enhancing alternative payment system in Sierra Leone at Sierra Light House Aberdeen Freetown. The conference, which attracted representatives of civil society organisations,...Read More
A group of young commercial sex workers around Texaco and Liberia Bar in the east of Freetown, have on Thursday March 11, 2021 called on the Government and other humanitarian organizations to provide them with the platform where they could receive vocational education and help them out of prostitution. Mariatu Kamara, 17, said that she...Read More
