In response to numerous complaints and concerns from parents and the public relating to illegal charges and other forms of extortion, the north-west regional office of the Anti-Corruption Commission has on Wednesday, February 24, 2021, engaged heads of secondary and primary schools in Kambia. Addressing school administrators at the Kambia Islamic Secondary School, the Regional...Read More
The National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA) recorded a total of 20,491 deaths for the entire year of 2020. Based on the available data, this means that only about 22% of all deaths were recorded by the NCRA nationwide, leaving the majority of those who died in 2020 unrecorded in the official databases, and the causes...Read More
People find it easy to speak about people with disabilities, or about people who are different than the majority. But has anyone ever wondered how it feels to be born differently and to be subject to discrimination and marginalization? Hamid Mo Kamara is a Senior Counsellor and Psychosocial Therapist and cofounder of the Sierra Leone...Read More
Frequent breakdowns and the high incidence of the ferries going aground or drifting into the Atlantic Ocean, have made passengers plying the Freetown-Tagrin route very wary about their safety, causing them to blame management of the ferry services. The General Manager of the Great Scarcis ferry and the Mahera Company, Alusine Daramy, told Premier News...Read More
The European Union Ambassador in Sierra Leone, Tom Vens has said that climate change is posing a serious threat to Sierra Leone’s sustainable development trajectory, and called on the media to focus more attention on environmental reporting in order to educate the public about the environmental hazards and its socio-economic impact on local communities. Ambassador...Read More
Freetown, Sierra Leone – The University of Georgia (UGA), the U.S. Department of State, and World Hope International will co-host a virtual Sierra Leone Child Anti-Trafficking program launch event on Tuesday, March 2. This free virtual launch event will detail the results of groundbreaking child trafficking research and a new, impactful program for child trafficking...Read More
The Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, His Lordship Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards has disclosed that Sierra Leone is now an attractive place for doing business despite the challenges posed by the dreadful Coronavirus pandemic. The Hon. Chief Justice was speaking at a workshop which was organized by the Sierra Leone Bar Association and the Center...Read More
The Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources in collaboration with the National Minerals Agency (NMA), has on Thursday, February 25, 2021, engaged the media practitioners, representatives of Civil Society Organisations on the status of the mineral sector in Sierra Leone, and case between the government of Sierra Leone and SL Mining which is pending at...Read More
Minister of Lands and Country Planning, Dr. Turad Senesie, has said that his first priority is to undertake reforms in the ministry by creating separate Directorates of Housing and Planning, and also digitize all their operations. He made the disclosure at the regular government press in the conference room of the Ministry of Information and...Read More
Starting today, and for the next two weeks, Premier News will present a series of articles looking into the plight of people living with Albinism in Sierra Leone. This is the first episode. Watch out for our next series on Wednesday, March 3rd. By Stephen V. Lansana Sierra Leone has not always been kind with...Read More
