Sierra Leone loses $29 million per year due to IUU fishing
April 29, 2016 The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) is calling for urgent action by the Sierra Leone government to protect the country’s fisheries resources after the EU warned the country on its...
View ArticleAs 200,000 public officials fail to declare assets - …ACC boss vows crackdown
…ACC boss vows crackdown April 29, 2016 By Hassan Gbassay Koroma New Anti-Corruption Commission czar, Ady Macauley, has disclosed to journalists that approximately 200,000 public officials are yet...
View ArticleCitizens expressed mix feelings as Sierra Leone clocks 55
April 29, 2016 By Jariatu S. Bangura As Sierra Leone celebrated her 55th independence anniversary Wednesday, 27 April, a cross-section of citizens in Freetown the capital have expressed mixed feelings...
View ArticleMPs and their constituents, Local Councils’ service delivery fracas - …an...
…an unending misunderstood battle April 29, 2016 By Joseph S. Margai Criticism that Members of Parliament and councils have been getting from their constituents for failing to deliver development...
View ArticleSave the children ends ‘rights of the child’ training
May 6, 2016 By Jariatu S. Bangura Save The Children has ended a two-day training workshop for Members of Parliament and Councilors on the promotion and rights of children and their participation in...
View ArticleUNDP holds inception meeting on post-Ebola medical surveillance
May 6, 2016 By Hassan Gbassay Koroma The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with support from the Japanese Government, yesterday commenced a two-day inception meeting for a project to...
View ArticleUSD260,000 for construction of 140 houses in Bo - …PLAN International...
…PLAN International supports displaced flood victims May 6, 2016 By Joseph S. Margai In an effort to ensure that displaced flood victims get shelter, PLAN International Sierra Leone has provided the...
View ArticleONS Director exposes bogus corporate pledges to disaster management fund
May 6, 2016 By Memunatu Bangura Director of Planning, Research and International Relations at Office of National Security (ONS) has disclosed that some corporate institutions that pledged to support...
View Article‘Sport is a powerful tool for social integration and inclusion’…Elite...
May 6, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr. Several sports elites who also serve as Ambassadors of ‘Save the Dream’ have urged organisations and institutions to use sport, which they consider as a powerful tool,...
View ArticleAs Sierra Leone Labour Congress awards President Koroma - ...May Day...
...May Day celebrations politicised May 6, 2016 By Mohamed Massaquoi International Workers’ Day, also known as Labour Day in some places, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is...
View Article1,600 metric tons of improved varieties of seed rice - -50,000 farmers to...
-50,000 farmers to benefit May 6, 2016 By Ibrahim Tarawallie The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security has disclosed that a total of 1,600 metric tons of improved varieties of seed rice...
View ArticleKewullay Conteh hopes Palermo escapes relegation
May 6, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr. Former Sierra Leone international and Palermo defender, Kewullay Conteh, is hoping that the struggling Palermo side can avoid relegation from the Italian Serie A this...
View ArticlePardew mulls over Kaikai selection against Stoke City
May 6, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr. Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew is uncertain if he’ll play Sierra Leone youngster Sullay Kaikai against Stoke City on Saturday in the English Premier League. The...
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Go to China and you will tell many stories
May6, 2016 By Alusine Sesay Having some fun with school kids at the White Lake Park in Nanny City, Guanxhi Autonomous Region in China It was in the first week of March 2016, when I received a phone...
View Article“Youth violence poses security risk” - - Sumanoh Kapen
- Sumanoh Kapen May 9, 2016 By Patrick Jaiah Kamara Chairman and Leader of the main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), Chief Bai Shebureh Sumanoh Kapen III said last Friday that incidences...
View ArticleOver detention without trial, deterioration in health of 78-year-old...
…SLPP accuse SLP of human right violation, APC of intimidation May By Mohamed Massaquoi & Victoria Saffa Deputy Chairman and Leader of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) has accused...
View Article‘ADP national convention credible’, says PPRC Commissioner
May 9, 2016 By Patrick Jaiah Kamara Alhaji Muctaru Williams, commissioner of the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC), has asserted that the national delegates’ conference of the Alliance...
View ArticleAlleged Child traffickers to be tried by judge alone
May 9, 2016 By Hassan Gbassay Koroma State Prosecutor Ahmed J.M. Bockarie has sought permission from the trial judge for the two alleged traffickers to be tried by judge alone. Nanah Janneh and Fatmata...
View ArticleThreatening remarks against Lawyer - …Accused granted Le40m bail
…Accused granted Le40m bail May 9, 2016 By Hawa Amara One Bernadette Kallon was last Friday arraigned at the Magistrates’ Court No.1 on four counts of threatening language, trespass and malicious...
View ArticleFreetown’s unprotected cemeteries: encroachers rejoice over government’s...
May 9, 2016 By Joseph S. Margai In most countries in the world the capital cities are densely populated to such an extent that residents scramble to get plots of land to construct houses, offices,...
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