Leone Stars can still qualify for 2017 Afcon, insists Coach Sellas Tetteh
April 4, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr. Sierra Leone’s national team coach, Sellas Tetteh, believes the Leone Stars can still make it to the 2017 African Cup of Nations finals in Gabon. The Ghanaian...
View ArticleFinding Salvation Amidst The Current wreckage.
April 5, 2016 By: Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon awogordon@yahoo.co.uk) For too long, we have been playing jazz music for Azonto enthusiast, which is why the suffocating level of poverty has started to...
View ArticleOne thousand African Entrepreneurs join $100M Tony Elumelu Programme
April 5, 2016 The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced the selection of the second set of 1,000 entrepreneurs for the 2016 cycle of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP). Launched...
View ArticleSchool activities banned in Kono
April 5, 2016 By Victoria Saffa A senior district education officer in eastern Sierra Leone has temporarily banned all schooling activities in her area of responsibility. Deputy Director of Education...
View Article149 chiefdoms to benefit from electricity supply - …As Ministry of Energy...
…As Ministry of Energy meets PCs & Local Councils April 5, 2016 By Joseph S. Margai In a bid to stem rural-urban migration in the country, the Ministry of Energy has revealed that it would install...
View Article…But Thorlu Bangura disagrees with SLPP colleagues
April 5, 2016 By Victoria Saffa An opposition politician vying for the flag bearer ticket of the leading political party is at odds with members of his party for criticising the recently released...
View ArticleFBC lecturers down tools - ...Over unpaid wages
...Over unpaid wages April 5, 2016 By Mohamed Massaquoi Students of Sierra Leone’s leading university – Fourah Bay College – were in utter shock yesterday after university administrators informed them...
View ArticleSLPP says provisional Census Results ‘substantially flawed, inaccurate and...
April 5, 2016 By Mohamed Massaquoi The main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) has in a press statement issued over the weekend stated that since President Ernest Bai Koroma came to power in...
View Article‘We are tired of fake promises’…Ebola survivors say
April 5, 2016 By Hassan Gbassay Hundreds of Ebola survivors yesterday marched peacefully on the streets of Freetown to protest government’s refusal to deliver a promised package during the outbreak of...
View ArticleSierra Leonean Journalists in Beijing for Seminar on New Media
April 6, 2016 By John Baimba Sesay in Beijing, China A cross-section of the journalists, including our senior reporter, Alusine Sesay (centre), being briefed by Sierra Leone Embassy officials in...
View ArticleFINDING SALVATION II: We Have Arrived At a Cliff Edge
April 6, 2016 By: Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon awogordon@yahoo.co.uk If the ‘’eyes’’ of a nation are those that allow the nation to see right from wrong then it is obvious that Sierra Leone started...
View Article10 suspects in Police custody at Calaba Town - …For unlawful possession of...
…For unlawful possession of harmful objects April 6, 2016 By Joseph S. Margai Vigilance on the part of police personnel attached to the Calaba Town Police Station, east end of Freetown, has led to the...
View ArticleAfrican80 to launch book in Johannesburg
April 6, 2016 A group of 80 young African leaders is set to launch a book they have co-authored on 25 May, 2016 in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa. The book, titled, “Africa80” was conceptualised...
View ArticleFBC lecturer says: ASA strike action ‘illegitimate’
April 6, 2016 By Mohamed Massaquoi A senior lecturer at the Economics Department of Fourah Bay College (FBC) has disclosed that the Academic Staff Association (ASA) has no legitimacy to embark on the...
View ArticleMPs caution approved presidential appointees
April 6, 2016 By Jariatu Bangura Members of Parliament yesterday approved nine individuals that had been appointed by President Ernest Bai Koroma to serve as ministers, deputies, ambassadors and judge...
View ArticleParliament proceedings not women friendly, says Hon. Gbappy-Brima
April 6, 2016 By Casper HSU and AL MANSARAY (Bournemouth University interns) A Member of Parliament of Sierra Leone Tuesday said parliamentary proceedings to approve recent presidential nominees did...
View Article‘We are ready for ICC Division II tourney’, says SLCA CEO
April 6, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr Chief Executive Officer of the Sierra Leone Cricket Association (SLCA), Francis Trevor Samura, says the national men’s cricket team are all set and prepared for the...
View ArticleSerey Die doubtful for Leone Stars encounter
April 6, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr Ivory Coast and Stuttgart midfielder Serey Die is doubtful for The Elephant’s 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier home tie against Sierra Leone on 2 September. The...
View ArticleKoroma joins Swedish Huskvarna FF
April 6, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr Sierra Leone international defender cum midfielder, Ibrahim Marcel Koroma, has joined Swedish Division One (third tier) league club Huskvarna FF. The 27-year-old signed...
View ArticleFire victims benefit from donated items
April 7, 2016 By Victoria Saffa A UK student, Luara Petkute, has extended a philanthropic gesture by donating food items Monday to more than 40 women and 50 children affected by fire in the Bombali...
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