Saliue Barrie, aka, Sal Bee a local hip-hop musician in the west of Freetown, has on Sunday 30, 2020 explained that music has greatly contributed in changing his life story in the society. Bee said that before now society had viewed him as someone with no hope in life, “but now music has made me...Read More
The Krio Descendants Union, in collaboration with the Krio Community and the Renner family, has on Friday, 28th August 2020 filed a lawsuit at the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone challenging the validity of the Provinces Lands Act 1960, as a discriminatory colonial statute inherited from the British. In a press Release issued and signed...Read More
John Keister has informed the management of East End Lions Football Club through a letter that he is resigning as Head Coach of the club. He said that serving as coach of the club during a very competitive local Premier League season was quite a tall order. “We became the target of others within the...Read More
Estella Pia, the Chairlady of the Bottom Mango community, PWD in the east of Freetown, has told Premier News on Saturday August 29, 2020, that the community has not got an ideal place to use to sell their wares which has caused them to trade in the street exposing them to the danger of being...Read More
The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone (HRCSL) has on Tuesday August 25, 2020, commenced a two-day consultation with stakeholders on the process of Universal Periodic Review (UPR), in a bid to elicit information, views and concerns from stakeholders for the production of a Shadow Report on the third Cycle Universal Review session to be...Read More
The Ministry of Defense (MOD), has in a press release issued on Tuesday June 25, 2020, said that a social media post purporting that 10 top military officers resigned by tendering letters of resignation to H.E President Bio is untrue. John Alfred SahrGbondo,the Group Captain and Director Defense Public Relations, in the release acknowledge that,...Read More
Freetown, 24th August 2020 – Catholic Relief Services has just concluded its quarterly stakeholders’ engagement as part of its McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition “All Pikin for Learn” project in Sierra Leone. The Food for Education and Child Nutrition project seeks to improve literacy levels and health and dietary practices of 69,731...Read More
Intelligence estimate indicates that individuals, known and unknown, have been engaging in activities including making pronouncements that are tantamount to disrupting the peace and stability of Sierra Leone, the security sector in Sierra Leone said in a statement on Monday. National Security Coordinator, Brig. Gen. (Rtd.) J.A.O. Jah-Tucker said in a statement that “the Security...Read More
The third prosecution witness, Zainab Isatu Kamara has on Monday August 24, 2020, testified before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No.1 on Pademba Road in Freetown, in a matter involving Dr. Sylvia O. Blyden, the proprietress of Awareness Times Newspaper, and Hussein Mukson Sesay who are being preliminary investigated on defamatory libel and other related...Read More
The coronavirus pandemic has left female football in a precarious position. Although the suspension of sporting activities in Sierra Leone applied equally to both men’s and women’s competitions, there will be deeper and more far-reaching consequences for women’s football. Sierra Leonean female players have shared some insights into how they are keeping their dream of...Read More
