Sheriff Sankoh resides in Temne Town, a community at Upper Wellington in the east of Freetown. He spoke to Premier News which visited the Community on Saturday November 28, 2020 saying that its residents face great difficulty in accessing health care because the community has no health centre. He added that the lack of a...Read More
Santigie Kargbo, the President of Sierra Leone Union on Disability Issues (SLUDI), has said that physically challenged persons find it difficult to access medical care, housing facility, toilet facilities and pipe borne water. He attributes their lack of access to such basic social amenities to the fact that their statuses as persons living with disability...Read More
The Executive Director of Campaign for Good Governance (CGG) and the Chairperson of National Elections Watch (NEW), Marcella Samba Sesay, has said that the revised decentralization policy must be in consonance with the 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone. She emphasized the policy would prompt the need for the review of the 1991 Constitution. She made this...Read More
In Sierra Leone, 1.7% of people are currently living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a physician for Infectious Disease, Dr. Sulaiman Lakoh said on Tuesday. He made this statement during an outdoor visit by Premier News at his Connaught Hospital office in Commemoration of World AIDS Day on December...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has on Tuesday December 2, 2020 announced that it has recovered a total sum of Le2, 742, 185, 304. 61 (Two Billion, Seven Hundred And Forty-Two Million, One Hundred And Eighty-Five Thousand, Three Hundred and Four Leones, and Sixty-One Cents) from cases and issues arising from audits. The Commission put revealed...Read More
The Fullah Progressive Union (FPU) on Sunday November 29, 2020, established its national headquarter situated at No.1 Sall Drive, Cockle Bay in Freetown. The opening of the headquarters brought several respected personalities within the Fullah community in Sierra Leone and other dignitaries from all works of life. The Fullah Union was established to resist discrimination...Read More
The Steering Committee of the Freetown WASH and Aquatic Environment Revamping Project (WASHAERP) has on Thursday, November 26, 2020, approved its work plan and budget for 2021. The approval was agreed at the 2nd WASH Steering Committee meeting held at the conference room of the Ministry of Finance. The Project Manager, Cephas Oguah said that...Read More
The Native Consortium & Research Centre in a press statement has on Wednesday November 25, 2020 put out a statement clarifying their position on what is good, bad and ugly about the fiscal budget recently debated in Parliament. According to the press statement, the Native Consortium has no doubt that the budget gives hope in...Read More
The National COVID-19 Emergency Response Centre (NaCOVERC) has on Friday, November 27, 2020 put out a statement announcing and an indefinite extension of the lifting of curfew until when it would be otherwise advised. The statement came four weeks after October 26, 2020 when the Government of Sierra Leone temporarily lifted a curfew which it ...Read More
“The development of the community depends on our collective resolve to demand for more transparency and accountability from duty bearers in the implementation of projects and programs in communities.” This statement was made on Tuesday 16th November 2020 by the Chiefdom Speaker, Sulima Chiefdom, Falaba District, Mohamed K. Samura, at a sensitization meeting with chiefdom...Read More
