Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Faith Healing Agricultural Development farm, Pastor Francis A.M Mambu – has provided 18 solar lights to Yainkassa, Royeama, Madrissa, and Woreh-yeama towns in the Makari Chiefdom, Bombali District. Presenting the already installed solar lights, Pastor Mambu expressed his willingness to change lives beyond preaching the word of God. He told...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has recovered Le5,216,400, which, were funds allocated to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, but some officials of the Ministry used to buy personal high-end gadgets without following proper due process and procedures as per the Public Finance Management Regulations, the ACC said in statement on Monday. According to the COVID-19...Read More
About 70% of Sierra Leonean women are employed in agriculture and women provide 75% of the labor along the food value chain, from production, processing to marketing, according to a 2018 Country Gender Assessment report by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and ECOWAS. Agriculture is the most important sector in the economy of Sierra...Read More
Of the 3,298,626 working age Sierra Leoneans in 2018 only 227,856 contributed to the National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT), which is the national retirement scheme, according to data published on NASSIT’s website. According to the 2018 Sierra Leone Integrated Household Survey (SLIHS), 2,129,972 working age Sierra Leoneans were employed, including those self-employed. This...Read More
The Krio Descendants ‘Yunion’ (KDY), with funds from diaspora and it parent body, has concluded its fifth annual free health care treatment at Aberdeen community in Freetown. The KDY has been providing health outreach to residents of local communities for the past four years complimenting government’s effort in providing healthcare services for the nation. On...Read More
The Director General of Sierra Leone Local Content Agency (SLLCA), Fodeba Daboh has on Monday, December 21, 2020, disclosed that in this year-FY2020, the Agency was able to link several local entrepreneurs to Multinationals Enterprises (MNEs), Non-Governmental Organizations, and Donor partners. He made this disclosure when addressing Journalists on the agency’s successes, challenges and plans for...Read More
The Sierra Leone Mobile and Digital Awards in a press release issued on Friday December 11th, 2020 has disclosed that Thelia Production, organizers of the yearly Sierra Leone Mobile and Digital Economy Summit and Expo, will hold a maiden annual Sierra Mobile and Digital Awards (SMDA) in collaboration with Kingdom Edge Consult and Mercy TV...Read More
The Chief Executive Officer of Campaign for Good Governance (CGG) and the Chairperson for National Election Watch (NEW), Marcella Samba-Sesay has in a press statement said that, according to NEW findings, the persistent presence of high profile government officials and politicians in elections environment before and during polls mounts undue tension thereby undermining the sanity...Read More
Momodu Koroma, the Vice President of the Motor Drivers and General Transport Workers Union, has recently said that lack of motor vehicles has caused transportation constraint. According to Koroma the fall in the number of commercial vehicles has caused over overcrowding in public transports which is threatening the lives of citizens amid COVID-19. He furthered...Read More
City of Rest, a mental rehabilitation Centre, held its annual fundraising carol service on Friday, December 11, 2020, at their facility in Grafton. The event was organized to raise funds for the running of the facility, and it brought together family members of inmates at the centre, patients and other dignitaries from different charitable organizations....Read More
