Agriculture plays a crucial role in the development of national economies. For cash crop like cocoa, there are growing concerns about declining output due mainly to aging and diseased trees as seen in Sierra Leone where yields are becoming increasingly low. In the bid to overcome this challenge, the Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (AVDP) is supporting smallholder...Read More
Haja Mariatu Kamara, chairlady of Wellington’s Pan Bridge Market in the East of Freetown, has said on Monday June 15, 2020, that for over 30 years now the community has gone without a properly built stricture for the purpose of housing traders selling food items. She said that the situation has caused traders to be hit...Read More
The deputy Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Hon. Dr. Abu Abu Bakarr Karim has said on Thursday June 19 2020, that Sierra Leone faces major challenges in delivering health services for animals. The deputy Minister of Agriculture made the remark during the official handing over of the revised para-veterinary curriculum to the Ministry of Agriculture and...Read More
Cordelia Johnson, a business woman at Goderich, has on Thursday June 18, 2020, testified before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No. 1 on Pademba Road that the sum of Le 50 million was stolen from her dwelling house. Fatmata Kargbo is the person whom she accuses for the theft of the money, and the court is...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has said that it conducted concurrent sting operations at COVID-19 checkpoints in Four Mile, Six Mile and Mange Bridge, the Commission disclosed this in a press statement it put out on Thursday June 18, 2020. According to the Commission, it carried out the operations in response to intelligence entrenched in public concerns...Read More
