The Legal Aid Board and DORWONTONY Organization for the Aged (DoFA) have forged a partnership to cater for the justice needs of retirees and the aged. The Executive Director of the Legal Aid Board, Ms. Fatmata Claire Carlton-Hanciles and the Chief Executive Officer of DoFA, Doreen Barrie sealed the partnership at a short ceremony at...Read More
Nigerians resident in Sierra Leone have acclaimed the outgoing Nigerian High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, Dr Habiss Ibrahim Ugbada for his successful tenure of office and for strengthening the bond of unity among the Nigerians inn Sierra Leone during his three-year tenure. An event was organised in Freetown on Thursday by the Nigerians in Diaspora...Read More
As a way of bringing banking services closer to its customers, Orange Money and Access Bank have, on Friday October 30th, 2020, launch bank to wallet at their shop in Rawdon Street Freetown. This service lets Access Bank customers have the opportunity to use orange money to cash out from the bank without any problem....Read More
The National Election Watch (NEW), a coalition of local and international organizations in Sierra Leone which support free, fair, and peaceful elections has on Monday, October 26, 2020, put out a statement in which it stated that the deferment of the Mid-term census to April 2021 has a likelihood of affecting the general elections calendar...Read More
Dr. Terry Rees, Executive Director of the Order of St. John Paul II, a world-wide canonical association of professional men and women that provides free technical expertise to Roman Catholic Dioceses, has on Friday October 23, 2020, in a virtual press conference expressed distress over Le2.63 billion, which he claimed Spire USA, Inc. owes the...Read More
Residents of Freetown municipality have in an interview conducted on Sunday, October 25, 2020, expressed dissatisfaction over the inconsistent power supply distributed by the Electricity Distribution Supply Authority (EDSA), the country’s main electricity distribution agency. According to residents, power cuts have been constant in some communities and frequent in others. They complained that it deters...Read More
The Bonthe Water Supply Project is currently in high gear with the construction of a Manager’s quarters, store, and workshop, molding of blocks for a perimeter fence, digging of a trench for laying pipes currently ongoing. Actual work on the project commenced merely three months after signing of an agreement on the Bonthe Water Supply...Read More
Rugiatu Jalloh, 22, of No. 22 Nyeyama Road, Daru in Jawe Chiefdom in Kailahun District will spend two years in prison. Justice Abdul Rahman Mansaray found her guilty of fraudulent conversation contrary to section 20(1)(IV) (a) of the Larceny Act 1916. The prosecution in this matter had given evidence that on December 1, 2019 at...Read More
The Budget Advocacy Network (BAN) in its ‘2020 Revised Domestic Revenue and 2023 Revenue to GDP Target’ report has indicated that the National Revenue Authority (NRA) must raise at least 1.7% GDP per month on average in order to reach its target of 20% GDP ratio to revenue by 2023. The Report was launched on...Read More
The Parliament of Sierra Leone has on Tuesday October 27, 2020 approved a US$40 million loan agreement for the educational sector of the country. The loan agreements approved by Parliament are: 1. Loan Agreement between the Republic of Sierra Leone and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), Dated 19th October 2019; and 2. Loan...Read More
