Sierra Stars, the under 17 national football team of Sierra Leone, continue to prepare for the West African Football Union football tournament although the tournament has been postponed. Presently, 27 boys are camped in Makeni City as intensive training continues ahead of the upcoming WAFU Zone Total U-17 AFCON Qualifiers for Morocco 2021. Raymond Samuel...Read More
Moviemakers have recently disclosed to Premier News that, the film industry in Sierra Leone lacks proper structure and is badly administered thus causing its poor output and the backwardness of its officials. Brima Abdulai sheriff, a movie director, said that they encounter lots of challenges while working with government ministries like the ministries of information,...Read More
The management of Special Movie Awards (SMA) has nominated Brima Abdulai Sheriff, a local movie Director to serve among international panelists who would review movies in the forthcoming Special Movie Awards festival in Sierra Leone in March 7, 2021. Special Movie Awards (SMA) is a platform where filmmakers in and outside Africa will be celebrated,...Read More
East End Tigers Football Club have on Wednesday, January 6, 2020, unveiled a 42-seater Bus at the forecourt of the Siaka Stevens Stadium in Freetown. Speaking during the unveiling ceremony, the Chairman and Owner of the Yellow Submarines Victor Lewis said: “We are not a rich club; we are just trying in our little way...Read More
On January 4, 2021, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi started his five-day visits to five African countries, namely Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Botswana, Tanzania, and Seychelles. Since 1991, Africa has been the destination of Chinese foreign ministers’ first annual overseas visit for 31 years in a row. This unique...Read More
Audit Service Sierra Leone (ASSL) has in a media conference held on Thursday, January 7, 2021, reiterated that its assertions that 47 laptops computers and a 50KVA generator were missing at the time of audit at the National COVID-19 Emergency Response Centre (NaCOVERC) is true. The three vehicles who were supposed to be brand new...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has recovered Le 220 million 000,000.00 (Two Hundred and Twenty Million Leones), as settlement of issues relating to the procurement of 47 Laptops being supplied to the National COVID-19 Emergency Response Centre contrary to the contracted specification. “There is a balance of Le 34,000,000.00 (Thirty-Four Million Leones) left to be recovered...Read More
The Special Movie Awards (SMA) virtual edition will be held on Saturday, March 27, 2021 live on Africa Young Voices (AYV), Wesley Street in Freetown. It is themed: ‘Promoting Sierra Leonean Culture and Tourism through Films’. According to the WAARD management team, the aim of the celebration is to honour moviemakers from across Africa and...Read More
President Dr Julius Maada Bio has on Tuesday, January 5, 2020, granted Sierra Leonean citizenship to 22 African Americans who traced their origin to Sierra Leone through DNA results, most of them with roots to Bo and Tonkolili districts. While handing over the passports at a ceremony held at State House in Freetown, the President...Read More
Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has offered scholarships to African students including engineering students from Sierra Leone who aim to pursue attain Master of Science (M.Sc.) degrees for the 2021 academic year. The eligibility criteria is that applicants should be researchers or instructors (or potentially expected...Read More
