Skye Bank (SL) Limited, a leading financial institution in Sierra Leone and ranked among the top 10 banks in the country fully participated and won the Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL) Wholesale Foreign Exchange (FX) Auction. On Wednesday, 21st September 2022, BSL put an offer for sale of USD 8,000,000.00 (eight million United States dollars)...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker It was another disappointing day for Sierra Leone’s senior male football team Leone Stars as they were once again put down by a 3-0 defeat by DR Congo’s Leopards at the Stade Père Jégo on Tuesday. Prior to Tuesday’s match Sierra Leone had been humiliated by a 4-0 loss to South...Read More
The Legal Aid Board has provided representation to seventy (70) accused persons arraigned before the Honorable Justice Nicolas Browne-Marke, JSC at the just concluded September Criminal Sessions of the High Court from the 20 – 23 September 2022 at High Court No. 1 on Siaka Stevens Street in Freetown. The accused persons were part of...Read More
By George M.O. Williams More female than male obtained niversity requirement and two females also emerged as the first- and second-best performing students respectively during the 2021/2022 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in Sierra Leone. This disclosure was made on Monday during the national broadcast of highlights of the WASSCE results at the...Read More
By Foday Moriba Conteh Social media evidently has the proclivity of weaponizing the use of data services and the internet ecosystem to inflict mayhem in Sierra Leone as recently witnessed. Sierra Leone enjoys the lowest cost in data tariff comparative to other countries. The low cost of data positively widened access, but not without its...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker After months of skill-perfecting endeavours, the Sierra Leone Cricket Association (SLCA) has named 14 players ahead of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Under-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup Africa Division 2 Qualifier scheduled for September 30 through October 8, 2022, at the MKO Abiola Cricket Oval in Abuja, Nigeria. Below is a...Read More
By Ibrahim S.Bangura Hajaratu Bangura, popularly known as Pinkee Pinkee, a rap prodigy in the east of Freetown has been nominated for the category of ‘Young Female Artist of the Year’in the third edition of the East-end National Award Ceremony 2022. Pinkee’s nomination came after gaining so much attention from the public with her unique...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu Sierra Leone’s Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources, Hon. Timothy Kabba, is set to attend Africa Oil Week, a leading Oil and Gas event held in Cape Town, South Africa, according to a statement put out by the APO Group on behalf of Africa Oil Week. Organised by Hyve Group Plc.,...Read More
By Ibrahim S.Bangura CeeJay Mark, a renowned Sierra Leonean musician, on Friday September 23,2022 has stormed with a single song titled: ‘If’,a track which talks about the power of love and the consequences of letting go off a relationship that doesn’t worth it. In the song, Ceejay expressed that he did regret his action of...Read More
More than 50 women recently graduated from ‘Bloodless Bondo’ rite at Matotoka Town in Tonkolili District Northern Sierra Leone. The bloodless Bondo rite was supported by the Amazonian Initiative Movement (AIM), a local non-governmental organisation championing the empowerment and rights of women and girls. The ceremony was considered as an extraordinary moment that gives a...Read More
