Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has on Tuesday November 24, 2002, highlighted key accomplishments and challenges in the fisheries sector. President Bio said, in Freetown during the launch of equipment for sustainable fisheries, that his administration inherited a fisheries and marine resources sector riddled with corruption and mismanagement. “Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing was...Read More
The Country Director of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Paul Emes has on Monday November 23, 2020, presented the organization’s vision 2030 country program to the Minister of Planning and Economic Development, Dr. Francis Kai-Kai at his Tower Hill office in Freetown. According to the Country Director, the plan would contribute to the Sierra Leone national...Read More
The Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary School (MBSSE), Dr. David Sengeh has said that there has been an improvement in subject pass rate by candidates who took the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in August 2020. According to the minister, the pass rates in especially Science and Commercial subjects including Mathematics and English...Read More
Students at Fourah Bay College, the University of Sierra Leone who went to take their second-semester exams on Monday were told by the college authorities that their exams had been postponed indefinitely. This came after the Academic Staff Association (ASA) commenced an indefinite strike action after the government failed to include in the 2021 budget the...Read More
A Canadian registered mining company Supreme Minerals Corporation has recently paid surface rent of Six Hundred Million Leones to two Chiefdoms- Magbema and Gbinleh in Kambia district, Northwestern Sierra Leone.The Company is willing to start Bauxite Mining with an estimated investment of USD 26 million dollars in the next two years for phase one. The ceremony...Read More
