Thomas Armani Sillah, a Sierra Leonean model has on Saturday February 12, 2022 in Ghana, at Joe’s Event Centre emerged as the3rdrunner-up in Mister Africa Continent modelling show. Mister Africa Continent is an entertainment platform for male beauty and intelligent contest dedicated to making African men continental icons for global influence to protect, preserve and...Read More
Dutch development bank FMO, in partnership with TCX, issued the first ever synthetic Sierra Leonean Leone bond (SLL). The bond with an equivalent $7,5 million countervalue (around 85 billion Sierra Leonean Leone), has a term of 36 months. FMO issued the notes with the support of ING who placed them with international investors seeking the...Read More
Four visually impaired pupils have suffered injuries when fire ripped through the female dormitory of the Milton MargaiSchool for the Blind on Wilkinson Road in Freetown late on Sunday. The fire partially destroyed a two-storey building and property worth millions of Leones. The immediate cause of fire is yet to be established, but eyewitness account...Read More
More than 370 inmates were granted bail and 234 discharged across the country following the review of 870 cases by the judiciary of Sierra Leone during the nationwide Judicial Week (from 31st January to 4th February 2022). The Judiciary said in a statement on Thursday that, the Access to Justice Through Judicial Week is a...Read More
Sierra Leone’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Hon. Dr. Memunatu Pratt and World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced on Thursday the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for a preservation project to save Old Fourah Bay College in Cline Town, Freetown. The Project is funded by the U.S. Embassy in Freetown. Old Fourah Bay College was...Read More
Brussels, Belgium, Thursday 17 February 2022 – President Dr Julius Maada Bio has talked about sustainable ways of achieving long term development, as one of four keynote speakers at this year’s EU-AU Summit, the others being President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique, Prime Minister Cleopas Sipho Dlamini of the Kingdom of Eswatini and Prime Minister Ulisses...Read More
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Professor David John Francis and the Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone, H.E Hu Zhangliang on February 11, 2022 signed Joint Economic and technical Cooperation agreement between China and Sierra Leone in Freetown. Professor Francis said the agreement process was initiated at the China-African Forum in Dakar, Senegal....Read More
The Deputy Finance Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Mr Sheku Fantamadi Bangura has on Thursday, February 17, 2022 introduced the Bill entitled “The National Payment System Act, 2021”, in the chamber of Parliament. The bill seeks to regulate the national payment system and to provide other related matters. Presenting the Bill, the deputy minister...Read More
A Sierre Leone rebel on trial in Finland for war crimes in Liberia’s bloody conflict has been released by the court ahead of its verdict where he risks life in prison, the court said Wednesday. Gibril Massaquoi, 51, has been on trial at Pirkanmaa district court for rape, ritual murder and recruiting child soldiers during...Read More
The National HIV/AIDS Secretariat in collaboration with other development partners celebrated the International Condom Day with the theme: “Always in fashion” at the Ahmed Tejah Kabbah Hall, Eastern Technical University, Kenema. Every year February 13 is commemorated International Condom Day which seeks to remind the public that condoms prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and unwanted...Read More
