By George M.O. Williams Experts have attributed the collapse of many storey buildings and fences in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, which claimed the lives of 13 people in July and August 2024, to the utilisation of substandard building materials and poor engineering design. This revelation was made during the monthly Inter-Pillar Coordination Meeting (IPCM) which...Read More
By Sallieu S Kanu President Dr Julius Maada Bio on Friday, 23 August 23, 2024, officially turned the sod for the construction of seven new buildings and the rehabilitation of 24 existing structures at Bo Government Secondary School, according to a statement from the Office of the President. This project is part of a US$65...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka Abu Bakarr Yillah, 47, a police officer attached to the Operations Support Division of the Sierra Leone Police stationed in Kambia was on Thursday 22nd August 2024 sent to prison by Magistrate Santigie Bangura of Pademba Road Court No: 2 for allegedly murdering Fasineh Bangura. The accused made his first appearance in...Read More
Initial results show homes in Sierra Leone’s capital fitted with heat-reflective roofing sheets can be up to 6C cooler By Eromo Egbejule in Abidjan Mohamed Koroma has lived in the Kroo Bay waterfront community in Freetown for more than 50 years but cannot remember a time when the weather has been as hot as it was in...Read More
Source: APO Group A 14-year-old girl from Sierra Leone is free to follow her dreams of becoming a doctor after having a facial tumor removed by international health charity Mercy Ships (www.MercyShips.com) Without the timely surgery, the tumor would likely have continued to grow to the point of causing airway obstructions, and ultimately, death by...Read More
By Stephen V. Lansana The Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of Sierra Leone (USL), Professor Aiah Lebbie has on Tuesday, August 20, 2024 officially launched the 2024 African Genius Awards (AGA)which will be hosted by Fourah Bay College (FBC) on Saturday, September 7th, 2024, making it the first college outside South Africa to...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka Magistrate Santigie Bangura of Pademba Road Court No.2 Mohamed Moriba Fabbah, 32, a contractor, was on Thursday, August 22, 2024, sent on remand by Magistrate Santigie Bangura of Pademba Road Court No.2 for an alleged theft of 50 length half-inch iron rod and 80 pieces of timbers. The accused who made his...Read More
Koninga inspecting a rat trap at a house in Mapuma village outside Kenema. Koninga is part of a group of researchers studying Lassa fever, a viral hemorrhagic disease endemic to several West African countries and transmitted by rodents. — AFP RUMMAGING in the darkness of a tiny mud and thatch home in eastern Sierra Leone,...Read More
By Bankolay Theodore Turay – The Conversation TUE, 20 AUG 2024 LISTEN Bora – a type of thank you gift – is a Sierra Leonean custom of respect that is often used in relation to land. For instance, informal farmers pay bora to landowners to be able to farm on their land. But bora has changed...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu Ministry of Trade and Industry has closed 10 shops that were engaged in the selling of substandard iron rods, a senior government official said on Tuesday. The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Fatmata Kargbo told a regular news conference in Freetown that the government has implemented mechanisms requiring importers to...Read More
