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 host...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 first...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, ecologist...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 over...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 obtain...Read More
