The Deputy Minister of Information, Madam Mamadi Ngobeh Kamara, has urged member states of the West Africa Internet Governance Forum (IGF) to develop a friendly digital policy and an effective regulatory environment to ensure access to digital services. She made this statement on Wednesday July 22, 2020 when she delivered the Keynote address at the...Read More
The Ministry of Technical and Higher Education has in a statement issued on Wednesday July 22, 2020, announced that universities and colleges will recommence for the Second Semester of the 2019/2020 academic session across Sierra Leone on Saturday July 25, 2020. The Ministry of Technical and Higher Education and the Conference of Vice-Chancellors & Principals...Read More
The National Secretary General of the main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) party, Amb. Dr. Alhaji Osman Foday Yansaneh, has said that the party will challenge President Bio’s appointment of Mr. Mohamed Konneh as proposed Chief Electoral Commissioner of NEC in court. He made this statement on Wednesday July 22, 2020, when he was asserting...Read More
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has on Tuesday July 21, 2020, committed Le14 billion for a Mid-Term Population and Housing Census (MTPHC) of all inhabitants of Sierra Leone, which will commence on December 4, 2020. He made this proclamation in his broadcast message to the nation. “In order to help us plan properly, ensure...Read More
Gershon Compagnie Coker, Operations Manager of Con and Sil Security Services on Lightfoot Boston Street Freetown, was on Monday July 20, 2020, sent to prison by Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No. 1 on Pademba Road, Freetown for an alleged act of financial impropriety in his institution. According to the police, the accused, Gershon Compagnie...Read More
Hon. Justice Abdul Rahman Mansaray has sentenced George Nangbeh, a man found guilty of receiving items burgled by Musa Lansana and Joseph Saidu alias Gadafi, to 36 months in prison. He also sent both Lansana and Saidu to the Correctional centre in Kenema for a jail term of 84 months each. Police charged Nangbeh for...Read More
In a bid to ensuring public health safety, the Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone (PBSL) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation has on July 18, 2020, at the Bailor Wharf, Port Loko District, destroyed a consignment of illegally imported and counterfeit medicines worth over Le200 million. It could be recalled that on...Read More
Adama Bangura, an elder in First Street community in Kissy, east of Freetown, has said on Monday July 20, 2020, that residents lack pipe borne water which has led them to fetch water from a well that is contaminated because it is not properly protected. She added that the well in question dries up after...Read More
The Kenema District Registration Officer, Eric Kenei Juana has told Premier News in an interview that, efficient execution of the mandate of the National Civil Registration Authority helps government to know the population in the country (Citizens and Noncitizens); ensures proper records of births and deaths as well as causes of deaths; identify population categories...Read More
Sheku Rashid Kamara was remanded by Magistrate Hannah Bonnie on Monday July 20, 2020, after he was arraigned for allegedly wounding one Emanuel Cooper, an office assistant working for Eco-bank. Police alleged that the accused, Sheku Rashid Kamara, on Thursday June 18, 2020, at a car washing point at Tengbeh Town in the west of...Read More
