By Desmond Tunde Coker The Inter Community Football League organised by the Central One Football Association COFA commenced on Sunday September 4TH 2022 with the First Lady Fatima Maada Bio taking the kick-off when Summer City locked horns with Fourahbay. A brace from Summer City’s Momoh Dumbuya was enough to silence the noisy Fourahbay Community....Read More
In January 2005, Sierra Leone became a State party to the 1972 Convention and identified, in 2012, in its first Tentative List the sites that could potentially be proposed for inscription on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. This year, in January 2022, this Tentative List was updated to include Gola-Tiwai complex as the potential site for the country’s...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu Relatives of the late Hassan Dumbuya aka Evangelist Samson, who was slayed by security personnel early August, has demanded that his corpse be handed over to them for befitting burial at his hometown in Makeni. Evangelist Samson was an ardent critic of the Bio Administration. His video and audio recordings are...Read More
By: Edward Nathaniel Blake, Public Education Officer ACC-Kenema The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) eastern region office on Wednesday, August 17, 2022, engaged the hospital management of the Kenema Government Hospital on various corruption allegations. The allegations range from the proliferation of the free health care drugs in markets, to the illegal purchase and sale of “plumpy-nuts”...Read More
By: David Yusuf Kabia, Public Relations Assistant, ACC The Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Francis Ben Kaifala Esq., after delivering the soul touching and inspirational Keynote Address to youths in Makeni at the jam-packed Auditorium on 27th August, 2022, drove to Magburaka where he had an engagement with eminent personalities of the University Court...Read More
Newly established global estimate on hygiene reveals the risk of disease spread and infections to patients and health care providers 30 AUGUST 2022 | Geneva, New York – Half of health care facilities worldwide lack basic hygiene services with water and soap or alcohol-based hand rub where patients receive care and at toilets in these...Read More
By Sallies S. Kanu On August 29, 2022, U.S. Ambassador David Reimer joined the leadership of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and other dignitaries to congratulate graduates of the Field Epidemiology Training Program, which trains “disease detectives” to investigate outbreaks of disease and find ways to prevent future outbreaks. The 12th cohort of the...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh Magistrate Mark Ngegba of the Pademba Road Court No.1 on Tuesday, remanded 12 people accused of riotous conducts on August 10. The accused Abubakar Conteh and 5 others were arraigned on two counts of riotous conduct and disorderly behavior contrary to law. According to the particulars of the offences, the accused on...Read More
By Yusuf Babalola Skye Bank, Sierra Leone, over the weekend, announced the appointment of a new managing director and three non-executive directors for one of its subsidiaries Skye Bank, Sierra Leone. “After the approval by the Bank of Sierra Leone, Mr. Abiola Bolaji has assumed office as the substantive Managing Director while Mr. Ayoku Liadi, Mr....Read More
Ahead of a crucial encounter in the U20 Zone A Tournament, Sierra Leone will on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, open the tournament against Mali. Sierra Leone U20 departed on Friday with a delegation constituting 23 players and 14 officials, led by the Vice President – 1 Harold Nat-Johnson for Nouakchott, Mauritania ahead of the WAFU...Read More
