The Deputy Minister of Finance Patricia Lavalie together with other government officials including the councilor of WARD 323 Mohamed Mansaray AKA D’Guy, on Saturday September 5, 2020 at Goderich launched a project to construct a road within Goderich Community in Freetown. The Goderich township road project would cover 1.35km and it is estimated at...Read More
Residents of Mamba Ridge, a community in mountain in the east of Freetown, on Sunday September 6, 2020, asked the Government of Sierra Leone to build schools, health centre and provide electricity which the community had lacked for decades. According to Yeanoh Kamara, an elder in the community, only one primary school operates in the...Read More
Santigie Koroma, a leader among stone miners at Moeba, a community in the east of Freetown, has said on Saturday that, the poor road network to the area prevents them from making substantial sales and jeopardizing their means of livelihood. He has been in the stone mining business for over 30 years. By his reckoning,...Read More
The Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA) has put out a press statement on Sunday September 6, 2020, notifying the public that the Karpowership two (KPS 2), anchored at Cline Town shall depart the shores of Freetown on September 11, 2020, in accordance with the terms of the contract between the Turkish Power Company, one...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has on Monday September 7th 20202, released it second report to address critical issues raised in the Audit Reports of Sierra Leone 2015 – 2018, relating to possible or alleged corruption, and conducts inconsistent with the Anti-Corruption Act of 2008. The ACC said that, after a thorough review and analysis of...Read More
Bala Amarasekaran, Director, Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Bathurst village in the Western area Rural District, has said in an interview that he is optimistic that the famous chimp Sanctuary will benefit from the recent electricity supply at Bathurst village. The Programme Manager was speaking from his sanctuary office on Thursday September 3,2020, when visited by this...Read More
The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has on Friday September 4, 2020 warned the business community and the general public to beware of Impersonators. “Certain unscrupulous people have been approaching unsuspecting business houses and well-placed individuals soliciting financial support on behalf of the Association and its President,” the National Secretary General of SLAJ,...Read More
After two months of training on enhancing policy development through research and capacity building, the Ministry of Finance has on Friday 4th September 2020 certified thirty economists from the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, Statistics Sierra Leone, Bank of Sierra Leone, and Parliament Budgetary Office. According to the Director of Research...Read More
The Ministry of Information and Communications in partnership with the National Telecommunications Commission (NATCOM) has engaged stakeholders in the Telecoms sector on the proposed National Electronics Communications Bill 2020 at the J&E Resort in Bo. In attendance at the event which took place on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th September 2020, were Internet Service Providers...Read More
The Academic Staff Association (ASA) of Njala University has on Wednesday September 2, 2020, suspended a strike action which they had been pursuing since August 21. This came following a plenary meeting at Towama, Bo Campus. The Association informed the public that they will back down from their former line of action till the end...Read More
