The Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education in a press release on Tuesday June 23, 2020, provided travel guidelines for the relocation of teachers and pupils that are to take pending public examinations. MBSSE emphasized that teachers and pupils that are in examination classes of National Primary School Examination (NPSE), Basic Education Certificate Education (BECE),...Read More
The Ministry of Finance has on Wednesday June 23, 2020, said that Government of Sierra Leone has commenced payment of salaries to Mayors, Chairpersons and their Deputies and have also increased allowances of Councilors. The Ministry said that the total remuneration for Mayors and Chairpersons has increased from Le 50.2 million per month to Le374...Read More
Dr. Mohamed Alex Vandi, the Director of Health Security Emergency at Emergency Operations Centre, has on Tuesday June 23, 2020, testified before Principal Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of court No.1 in a matter in which his servant, Alieu Koroma allegedly stole a bag containing over Le 143 million from a vehicle with registration number ANT 829...Read More
UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore has on Friday June 19, 2020 recognized 1DT LABS, a firm providing Information Communication Technology service in Sierra Leone, as a company taking the lead in creating digital platforms to solve local problems and a key player in the countries development. The UNICEF boss made the statement at the launch...Read More
The Skills Development Fund Secretariat (SDFS) at the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education has on Tuesday June 23, 2020, engaged stakeholders on a US$22 million World Bank funded Development Skills Project with assistance from the Government of Sierra Leone, at the Atlantic Hall in Freetown. Grant Specialist for the Secretariat, Sallieu Barrie said that...Read More
The United Nations in Sierra Leone is shocked and deeply saddened by the horrendous murder and alleged acts of rape and torture of a five-year-old girl, which was reported in Freetown on June 17, the United Nations Office said in a statement on Tuesday. In the statement the United Nations in Sierra Leone extended its...Read More
Sierra Leone’s President, Julius Maada Bio has on Tuesday June 23, 2020, expressed his outrage and total condemnation of the continued incidents of rape, sexual and gender-based violence in the country. “The depravity of sexual violence is obscene, criminal, and totally objectionable. As a Government, we stand with the survivors, victims, and their loved...Read More
Principal Magistrate, Hannah Bonnie of Court No.1 on Pademba Road, Freetown, has on Tuesday June 23, 2020 withdrawn the file involving six accused persons that were answering to the allegations of 16 charges including the kidnapping of a police officer. Magistrate Bonnie withdrew the file after a no case submission had been made by defense...Read More
Globally renowned Telco, Orange has been present in Sierra Leone for only three years. Yet, it has already firmly stamped its innovative footprint on the country and its telecoms industry, bringing new era telecommunications to Sierra Leone. Since the inception of its operations in Sierra Leone, the Company has invested about $133 million in the...Read More
Principal Magistrate Hannah Bonnie has on Tuesday June 23, 2020, admitted one Joseph Thullah, who was charged with the offence of dishonestly transforming over 1000 concrete bricks valued at Le 26,000,000 million. Thullah is accused of fraudulently converting property valued over Le 26 million which was given to him by Mariatu Jelikatu Sesay for safe...Read More
