The Technical and Vocational Education (TVET) Directorate of the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education (MTHE), headed by Dr. Victor Massaquoi has on Wednesday February 3, 2021 engaged the Director General of Sierra Leone Local Content Agency, Fodeba Daboh, at the Agency’s office in Freetown. The purpose of the engagement is to increase partnership between...Read More
Rural-Urban migration with its resultant population growth in Freetown has led to encroachment on Aberdeen Creek and other areas which ought to be protected. This has led to the destruction of its natural vegetation of Mangroves and water pollution. It is a designated as one of the protected sites in Freetown the Capital City of...Read More
The Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL) has called for the harmonization of legislations relating to the cooperative sector as a way of ensuring proper coordination and regulation of the activities of cooperative organizations in the country. A representative of the Bank told stakeholders in the cooperative sector that failure by organizations to register with it...Read More
Freetown, Sierra Leone. Friday, 26 February 2021: The European Union (EU) Delegation in Sierra Leone has ended a five-day training programme on Environmental and Climate Change Reporting for 15 journalists from print and electronic media institutions across the country at the New Brookfields Hotel Conference Hall in Freetown. This training programme which was fully funded...Read More
Justice Miatta Maria Samba was sworn in on Tuesday as Justice of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone following her appointment by President Dr Julius Maada Bio and approval in Parliament on February 23, 2021. In her statement after the official signing, Justice Samba described the ceremony as a celebration of the girl child, adding...Read More
The Minister of Lands, Housing and Country Planning, Dr. Turad Senesie, Minister of Defence Brig. (Rtd) Kellie Conteh & Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Lieutenant-General Sullay Ibrahim Sesay toured Benguema Community on Tuesday March 2, 2021, to ascertain the extent of land encroachments into land reserved for the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces Training...Read More
Tamba Kungbana, alias Belleh, the Chairman of a group of youths in washing cars at Shell, Kissy has pleaded that they are in need of a water-holding facility i.e. a Mila tank, electricity, and other necessary materials which will boost the effectiveness of the work and from which they eke out their living. He directed...Read More
Residents of the Old Wharf, a community in Wellington in the east of Freetown, have complained that they are constrained with irregular water supply which has exposed children to sexual violence and related forms of physical violence which occur mostly at night when they go out in search of water. Mariama Kamara, who resides...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Southern Regional Office has engaged personnel of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) in Gondama, Tikonko Chiefdom, Bo District, on matters related to integrity in the discharge of their duties and the anti-corruption campaign in the country. Speaking at the event, Southern Regional Manager of the ACC, Musa J....Read More
Sierra Leone has made some progress in combat Money Laundering (ML), Terrorist Financing (TF), and Proliferation Financing (PF) in accordance with international standards as prescribed in the Intergovernmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) report. The report projected forty recommendations and eleven Immediate Outcomes (IOs) which were to be instituted by member...Read More
