Sierra Leone: 'Salone's Decline in 2019 GPI Is Worrisome'

Executive Director, Campaign for Good Governance, Marcella Samba- Sesay, said the current ranking of Sierra Leone in the Global Peace Index is very worrisome and that it should be… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Green Scenery Urges Govt to Suspend Timber Logging

Green Scenery has called on President Julius Maada Bio to immediately suspend logging and the exporting of logs and ensure that necessary actions are put in place to reverse what… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Over 200 Women Perished in Road Crash

According to records at the Sierra Leone Roads Safety Authority (SLRSA), two hundred and sixty-six (266) women lost their lives as a result of road traffic accidents in 2019. Read more »

Sierra Leone: Former Agric. Ministers to Refund Le.68 Billion

While addressing the Commission of Inquiry presided over by Justice Bankole Thompson, Counsel for the State, Robert B. Kowa, yesterday submitted that the sum of Le68, 245,558,888… Read more »

Kenya: UNON DG Zainab Hawa Bangura Pays Courtesy Call to Sierra Leone High Commission in Nairobi

Director General (DG) of United Nations Office in Nairobi (UNON) has today Tuesday 21st January 2020 paid courtesy call on the High Commission of Sierra Leone Chancery in Nairobi,… Read more »

Sierra Leone: 58 Prisoners On Death Row At Pademba Road

National Public Relations Officer of the Sierra Leone Correctional Services (SLCS) has disclosed in an exclusive interview with this medium that the Male Correctional Centre at… Read more »

Sierra Leone: 'Focus On You Books Not Your Looks'

-OSCARS Chief Admonishes Female Students Read more »

Sierra Leone: NASSIT Court Commences Sittings in Sierra Leone

The National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT) Court that was inaugurated last Saturday ,January 18, 2020, has commenced sittings on cases relating to the non-compliance… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Audit Report Decries Persistent Power Outage At Bo Police Clinic

The 2018 Auditor General's report has revealed that there was no power supply to the Police Clinic in Bo for the period under review. Read more »

Sierra Leone: ACC Sensitises Staff of Agric. Ministry

The North-West Regional office of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has on Thursday 16th January 2020 held a sensitization meeting on corruption with staff of the Ministry of… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Resident Minister Struggles to Debunk ACC's Graft Allegation

Resident Minister , North-West Region, Haja Isata Abdulai Kamara, was in a swing to deny the Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC)'s allegation over the recent misappropriation of… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Fourah Bay College Undermines Bio's Administration

Students in year one offering different courses in the sciences such as engineering, agriculture, physics, chemistry and mathematics at Fourah Bay College (FBC), University of… Read more »

Africa: British Prime Minister, African Leaders Urge Investors to Accelerate Economic Role

At an oversubscribed opening ceremony for the 2020 UK-Africa Investment Summit, Monday, attended by dignitaries and delegates from 16 African countries, including President El Sisi… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Masundu Kongorteh in Kono Benefits From Anti-Corruption Messages

Stakeholders and other inhabitants of Masundu Kongorteh community in Gbense Chiefdom have benefited from anti-corruption messages delivered by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Men Sentenced to 10 Years for Rape

Justice Ivan Sesay last Friday sentenced two men to ten years imprisonment each after they pleaded guilty to have sexually penetrated two 14-year-old girls separately. Read more »

Sierra Leone: Milton Margai College of Education and Technology Students Protest Over Overdue University Status

Aggrieved and frustrated students of the three campuses of the Milton Margai College of Education and Technology (MMCET) polytechnic on Friday 17th January 2020 demonstrated… Read more »

West Africa: As West Africa Countries Remain Divided On Eco Citizens Await Position

Sierra Leoneans are patiently waiting on the government to issue out a position on the new single currency as West Africa countries have remained starkly divided on its adoption. Read more »

Sierra Leone: Court Orders APC Lawyer to Pay Le4 Million Cost

Justice Komba Kamanda has ordered Lawyer Wara Serry-Kamal, defence council for the main opposition All Peoples Congress to pay four million Leones to plaintiff's council, Hindolo… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Nigerian Prof. to Deliver Free Lectures And Test On Sickle Cell

A Nigerian Genetics, Professor Cyril Oroname Otoikhian, who is leading a fight to end sickle cell genetic in Africa, has collaborated with Prince Harrison Ehimiyen Foundation in… Read more »

Sierra Leone: 7 More Districts Added to the School Feeding Programme

Minister of Basic and Secondary Education yesterday disclosed that government was now working with the World Food Programme (WFP) to provide quality school feeding programme to 7… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Two Perished in a Pit At Regent

One Joshua Abu Kamara and Meshack Bamba Thoronka, both believed to be at age 34 years old, were yesterday discovered dead in well at the Sidya Estate in the Regent community,… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Native Consortium to Demonstrate If January 17, 2020

Native Consortium and Research Centre (NCRC) has yesterday in a press statement promised to stage a demonstration if any disproportionate increment is made on the pump prices of… Read more »

Sierra Leone: 'COI Was Not to Fight Corruption but to Make Ex-President Koroma a Destitute'

Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, Counsel representing former President Ernest Bai Koroma in the on-going Commission of Inquiry presided over by Justice Bankole Thompson, has in his final… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Third Batch of 8 Nigerian Medicos Jet in

TAC doctors and delegation pose with the Nigerian High Commissioner Read more »

Sierra Leone: Prosecution Calls for Property of Ex-Tourism Minister to Be Confiscated

Robert Kowa, lead prosecutor in the on-going Commission of Inquiry presided over by Justice Bankole Thompson, has submitted to the Commission that the worth of former Minister of… Read more »