Campaign for Good Governance (CGG) has on Friday, October 9, 2020, implored Sierra Leone’s former President Ernest Bai Koroma to publicly denounce violence and call for calm among his supporters while he is being investigated. It could be recalled that on Thursday October 8, 2020, a cross-section of supporters of the former President took to...Read More
The ACC, in its fourth media release to update the general public of the actions and steps it has taken to address critical issues raised in the Audit Reports of Sierra Leone 2015-2018, has cleared the University of Sierra Leone (USL) of corruption allegations in the 2018 Auditor General’s Report. The 2018 Report alleged that...Read More
The Saint Anthony Infant School, a government assisted school, does not have enough furniture for pupils to sit to observe social distancing. The Head Teacher of the School, Esther C. Amara told Premier News on Thursday that, lack of sits has made it difficult for them to observe social distancing during school hours as prescribed...Read More
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada has on Thursday October 8, 2020 formally opened the Dr. Kadi A. Sesay Girls’ Secondary School in Port Loko. The modern facility which was constructed with funds provided by Mercury International, a sport betting company, will cater for girls in the district. In his keynote address, President Bio started by...Read More
Five students Alpha Bundu, Derick Atere-Robert, Henry Charles, Maxwell Akpa and Prince Kamara at the Ballanta Academy of Music and the Performing Arts have on Tuesday October 7, 2020 sat to the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) exam. The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) is an examinations...Read More
Gibrill Aruna Kargbo aka Coco Rhymes, a local musician, singer and song writer, has said on Tuesday October 7,2020 that, he is set to release a single titled ‘Slow Poison’ on his birthday -November 10. Rhymes said that the song describes the feeling which one has when one has found a partner you feel passionate...Read More
The National Revenue Authority (NRA) has projected Le 6.509 trillion as its target for revenue mobilization for 2021 Fiscal Year with an increase of 1.108 Trillion when compared to 5.399 in 2020 which is in accordance with the government’s Macro Fiscal model. NRA made this disclosure on Tuesday at the ongoing Fiscal Year Budget hearing...Read More
The strategic objective of the Ministry of Finance (MoF) for 2021 is to increase domestic revenue mobilization from 12.3% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2017 to 20% by the 2023. This disclosure was made on Tuesday by the acting Director of Research at MoF, Alhaji Komeh while presenting the Ministry’s projected budget of Le...Read More
The Chairman of the blind in Waterloo, Salieu Turay has said that they are homeless, discriminated against and treated unequally by the rest of society. He made this statement when he spoke to Premier News on Monday October 5, 2020. According to him, they face a desperate need of being sheltered and eased of the...Read More
The recent audio purporting to be from the spokesperson of the Fullah Progressive Union (FPU) President, Alhaji Sanu Barrie accusing the Vice President Mohamed B. Barrie of undermining the FPU president is shocking and disappointing. What I Sense Listening to the audios, I sense insecurity in the narration of the speaker. Mr Mohamed Barrie, Vice...Read More
