Op-ed - My President, Please Protect Children’s Right to Safe and Meaningful...
My President, Please Protect Children’s Right to Safe and Meaningful Participation in Sierra Leone January 26, 2017 By Chernor Bah Over 16 years ago, I led a group of children to the Ministry of Social...
View ArticleAs president Koroma receives CRC final report… - CARL calls on gov’t to...
CARL calls on gov’t to speedily develop white paper January 27, 2017 By Patrick Jaiah Kamara The Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL), has called on the government of Sierra Leone to act...
View ArticleAmbassador Wu Peng reiterates stronger cooperation
January 27, 2017 By Hassan Gbassay Koroma As the People’s Republic of China celebrate Spring Festival, the Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone has noted that the meeting of Chinese President Xi Jinping...
View ArticleUS$149m for reliable electricity supply in the Western Area
January 27, 2017 The Government of Sierra Leone, the Project Sponsors and the World Bank Group on Monday (January 23) officially executed the project and finance documents for the CECA Sierra Leone...
View ArticleAs Sierra Leone ranks 123 out of 176 countries in TI’s 2016 Corruption Index…...
ACC says efforts beginning to pay dividend January 27, 2017 By Ibrahim Tarawallie Deputy Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has stated that Sierra Leone’s efforts in the fight against...
View ArticleAirtel’s fraudsters go to High Court
January 27, 2017 By Hawa Amara A fraud matter involving two Indians and one Sierra Leonean has been committed to the High Court by Magistrate Dr. Magistrate Abou Bhakarr Binneh-Kamara for further...
View ArticleThorpe Crowned Youth Ambassador
January 27, 2017 Prince Harold Thorpe, one of the Freetown Mayoral aspirants for the All People’s Congress (APC) was yesterday crowned as the Youth Ambassador by Upgun Youth organisation, east end...
View ArticleSierra Leone Players Abroad - Al Bangura’s Nuneaton Town suffers away trashing
Al Bangura’s Nuneaton Town suffers away trashing January 31, 2017 By Sahr Morris Jnr Sierra Leone midfielder, Alhassan Bangura aka Al Bangura was part of the Nuneaton Town squad that was trashed 4-0...
View ArticleMonrovia Club Breweries take on FC Johansen today
January 31, 2017 By Sahr Morris Jnr Liberia Football Association Cup champions, Monrovia Club Breweries FC, will entertain their Sierra Leonean F.A. Cup champion’s counterpart, FC Johansen today in an...
View ArticleSellas Tetteh in race for Black Stars job
January 31, 2017 By Sahr Morris Jnr Sierra Leone national team, Leone Stars and newly appointed Liberty Professionals coach, Sellas Tetteh is leading the race to succeed Polish-Israeli coach, Avram...
View ArticleSchool feeding programme: teachers lament inadequate unds
February 1, 2017 By Ibrahim Turay & Elizabeth Kaine A survey conducted by Concord Times in various primary schools in Freetown to evaluate the new schools feeding programme has revealed that most...
View ArticleINTIMIDATION! - …Civil Society activist in police net
…Civil Society activist in police net February 1, 2017 By Mohamed Massaquoi The Chief Executive Officer of Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI) was yesterday detained by the...
View ArticleAPC Lawyer Kalokoh receives red carpet welcome in Port Loko
February 1, 2017 By Victoria Naomi Saffa As the political struggle kicks-off in the country, thousands of Port Loko district indigenes on Sunday 29th January, 2017, welcomed the All People Congress...
View ArticleDefense ministry debunks allegation
February 1, 2017 By Mohamed Massaquoi Spokesperson of the Ministry of Defense has told Concord Times in an exclusive interview that British troops were not recently in Sierra Leone to stop migrants...
View ArticleLe50m bail for Legal Aid Board Paralegal
February 1, 2017 By Hassan Gbassay Koroma One Ibrahim Kallon, a Paralegal working for the Legal Aid Board of Sierra Leone, was yesterday granted fifty million Leones bail plus two sureties by the...
View ArticleEDSA oil theft… - High court judge reviews bail condition for accused persons
High court judge reviews bail condition for accused persons February 1, 2017 By Regina Pratt Honourable Justice John Bosco Allieu presiding over the 2017 criminal session has yesterday reviewed the...
View ArticleHRC conducts training on Disability Act, Convention on the Rights of PWD
February 1, 2017 By Ibrahim Tarawallie The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone (HRCSL) with support from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), yesterday conducted training...
View ArticleSLPP scribe ‘fumbles’ in Court
February 2, 2017 By Patrick Jaiah Kamara & Regina Pratt Acting Secretary General of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), Ambassador Alie Badara Kamara, yesterday struggled to search for words and...
View ArticleAudit Report 2015: Le65.4bn missing!
February 2, 2017 The 2015 Audit Service Sierra Leone report has revealed that over Le 65.4 billion could not be accounted for by government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). “We estimate...
View ArticleFBC BADEA project faces huge setback
January 2, 2017 By Joseph S. Margai The rehabilitation, construction and expansion of Fourah Bay College (FBC) campus under the BADEA project is currently facing a huge setback as most of the...
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