The Vice President Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh has reechoed President Julius Maada Bio’s commitment to support ecosystem governance. Vice President Jalloh referenced President Bio’s statement to the Sierra Leone House of Parliament last year to support ecosystem governance, noting that the recruitment of five hundred game/forest guards to patrol protected areas in Sierra Leone fulfils...Read More
President of the Union of Timber Factory Owners, Nimer A.Dayekh, who also doubles as the Managing Director of Nazadco Trading Company (SL) Limited, has called on President Bio to have a rethink about his decision to appoint a single agent in charge of exporting timber out of the country. He told Premier News recently that...Read More
Speaker of the regional Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament, His Excellency Sidie Mohamed Tunis has on Monday October 26, 2020 called on regional lawmakers to prioritize advocacy on the protection of the right to food. He comment came whilst serving as chair of a high level regional meeting with West and Central...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) southern regional office has concluded the ‘Deepening Integrity in Schools’ campaign and the popularization of the National Anti-Corruption Commission Creative Art Competition in various schools in Bo. The exercise which ran from the 19th to 23rd October, 2020 targeted seven schools: Government Secondary School, Bo, the Bo Commercial Secondary School, Queen...Read More
Orange-SL and Thinking Pink Foundation have on Monday October 26, 2020, continued the breast cancer awareness which they had started in Freetown. During the campaign, staff of Orange had their breasts checked for possible cancer causing infections. Speaking to pressmen at Orange headquarter, Hill Station in Freetown, Desmond Spaine, Corporate Social Responsibility/ Foundation Manager, Orange-SL, ...Read More
Godwin Jenner Newis, midwife in Kukuna town in Bramaia Chiefdom, Kambia District, has disclosed that the structure of the health centre is inadequate for the number of patients who usually visit the health facility for treatment causing the operations of the staff to be ineffective. According to Newis, the health centre has one room with...Read More
Guma Valley Water Company has handed over a 250 cubic meter concrete reservoir and a pipeline which has eight public stand posts to residents of IMATT in the Mountain Rural District in the west of Freetown. IMATT is a community with an estimated population of 20, 000. Representatives of the United Kingdom who funded the...Read More
For the first time since March 2020, families and friends will be allowed to visit inmates at the Freetown Male Correctional Centre on Pademba Road beginning next week. The Sierra Leone Correctional Service (SLCS) announced on Monday that it will open its facility to families and friends on Tuesday November 3, 2020. “The SLCS is...Read More
State House, Freetown, Thursday 22 October, 2020 – The new United Nations Resident Coordinator to Sierra Leone, Babatunde Ahonsi, has called on President Dr Julius Maada Bio to present his letter of appointment by the UN Secretary General. ”It is with utmost humility and great honour that I present my credentials as the United Nations...Read More
President Dr Julius Maada Bio has on Thursday October 22, 2020, commissioned four inshore patrol boats donated by the South Korean government to the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) at the White Man’s Bay Navy headquarters in Freetown. Commander of the Maritime Wing, Captain Navy Philip Juana, told the ceremony that the role...Read More
