UBA, MasterCard announce Pan African partnership
July 22, 2016 By Hassan Gbassay Koroma In a bid to make banking less cumbersome for their customers in the country and across the world, United Bank for Africa (UBA) and MasterCard have announced a...
View ArticleLe66m heist! - Yada Williams & Associates sue clerk
Yada Williams & Associates sue clerk July 22, 2016 By Hassan Gbassay Koroma Private law firm, Yada Williams &Associates, has sued one of their clerks who allegedly conspired with some unknown...
View ArticleMakeni City Council bags decentralisation performance award
July 22, 2016 By Mohamed Massaquoi Makeni City Council was yesterday certified and awarded as the ‘Best Performing Council’ for the 2015- 2016 Comprehensive Local Government Performance Assessment...
View ArticleThreat to press freedom as Aljazeera journalist declared wanted
July 22, 2016 By Patrick Jaiah Kamara National Coordinator in the Office of the Government Spokesman has confirmed to journalists that Aljazeera journalist, Nena Devries, is wanted by the government....
View ArticleSLAA & Sports Ministry brawl continues… - As Sports Council names interim...
As Sports Council names interim committee July 22, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr. The Ministry of Sports and National Sports Council (NSC) have on Thursday officially released the names of a five-man interim...
View Article‘Fake’ Paramount Chief remanded
July 22, 2016 By Hawa Amara One Bobson Frederick Amara was yesterday remanded at the Male Correctional Centre in Freetown for allegedly pretending to be Paramount Chief Kingibomeh Nyandebok II of...
View ArticleSalone sprinter gears for Olympics Games but rule out medal chance
July 22, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr. Sierra Leonean youngster Ishmael Kamara is gearing up to represent the country in next month’s Rio Olympic Games, but has quickly ruled out any chance of him...
View ArticleAIK still eyeing Koroma
July 22, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr. Swedish Allsvenskan side AIK are still eyeing Nyköpings BIS centre-back Ishmael ‘Jaw Jaw’ Koroma. The 20-year-old was invited and played for the AIK’s U-21 side in an...
View ArticleIndian gets Le150m bail
July 22, 2016 By Hawa Amara Indian, Sudin Desai, who allegedly defrauded his compatriot Rajeev Verma of the sum of Le224 million, was yesterday granted bail in the sum of Le150 million by Magistrate...
View ArticleGovernment urged to discourage Tobacco importation
July 25, 2016 By Ibrahim Tarawallie Programme Manager of Health Education Division in the Ministry of Health and Sanitation has urged the government and other stakeholders to discourage the importation...
View ArticleBirthday celebrant celebrates with Ebola, war orphans
July 25, 2016 By Patrick J. Kamara Birthdays are often celebrated with lavish pomp by middle class and rich parents, not least to make their children happy. But for Hanan Yeani Tommy, who celebrated...
View ArticleRotten Chicken: Gov’t. refuses to disclose name of importer
July 25, 2016 By Patrick Jaiah Kamara There was a mad rush on Thursday (21 July) at the Bomeh dump site in the east end of Freetown where officials from the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and...
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Kemoh Sesay spearheads innovative moves
July 25, 2016 By Gabriel Benjamin Hon. Alhaji Ibrahim Kemoh Sesay In April, 2016 President Ernest Bai Koroma carried out a major Cabinet reshuffle. New Cabinet Ministers, Ambassadors, and other...
View Article“HUNGRY MAN NOR GET CHOICE”: DEMOCRACY WITHOUT DIGNITY!!!
July 25, 2016 By Alfred Kamanda In a country where people suffer chill penury, where 70 percent of its active population are unemployed, and majority of the citizenry go to bed on a hungry stomach,...
View ArticleHike in Commodity Prices: Consumers, Traders Concerned - …as cost of living...
…as cost of living increases, standard of living plummets July 25, 2016 By Regina Pratt Traders and consumers in the capital Freetown have raised grave concern over the continuous hike in prices of...
View ArticleLawyer implicated in land fraud
July 25, 2016 By hawa Amara One Richard Ashidin Abu, who is alleged to have defrauded Alafia Wray by falsely pretending that he has two plots of land at Allen Town for sale, has named Lawyer J.K....
View ArticleThrowing filth in drainages irks SLRSA
July 25, 2016 By Joseph S. Margai The practice of throwing filth in drainages in Freetown, especially when it is raining, has drawn irk from officials of the Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority (SLRSA)....
View ArticleZagalo completes Denizlispor move
July 25, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr. Sierra Leonean midfielder, Alfred ‘Zagalo’ Sankoh, last Friday signed a one-year deal with Turkish second tier side Denizlispor for an undisclosed fee. The 27-year-old...
View ArticleMustapha Dumbuya starts injury rehab
July 25, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr. Patrick Thistle and Sierra Leone defender Mustapha Dumbuya has started his first phase of recovery from Achilles tendon injury last week. The right-back reportedly...
View Article‘Fake’ Le10,000 note printer wanted by Police
July 26, 2016 By Hassan Gbassay Koroma Police in Kambia are currently investigating one Alusine Sheriff Kamara, who is alleged to have printed and put into circulation fake Le10,000 notes at the...
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