Leading mobile telecom company, Orange Sierra Leone has on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 launched its fourth edition of its annual Orange Social Venture Prize (OSVP) at its Hill Station headquarters in Freetown. The competition is geared towards capacitating young entrepreneurs in setting their businesses. The best innovative ideas will bag home cash prize of Le150 Million....Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission on April 7, 2022, published its fourth update on audit queries in the Auditor General’s Report 2019 and Covid-19 Audit Report 2020. The ACC interventions focused on aspects of possible or alleged corruption and conducts inconsistent with the provision(s) in the Anti-Corruption Act of 2008 as amended in 2019. See Full Update Below:...Read More
The Parliament of Sierra Leone has on Tuesday 05/04/2022 intensively debated, the Bill entitled “The Tobacco and Nicotine Act, 2021. The Bill seeks to provide for the control and regulation of the production, manufacturing, importation, packaging and labeling, advertising, promotion and sponsorship, sale and use of tobacco, tobacco products, and other nicotine products; provide for the...Read More
Between 2013 and 2019, Moyamba and Pujehun districts suffered overall deteriorating relationships between communities and multinational companies investing in the large-scale agriculture and mining sectors in these communities. These two districts were not a place you wanted to be, owing to social unrest, and seeming ashes of fear within and between communities. “Two and half years...Read More
