Number of children dropping out of school poised to increase, emerging evidence shows NEW YORK, 30 March 2022 – As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, 23 countries – home to around 405 million schoolchildren – are yet to fully open schools, with many schoolchildren at risk of dropping out, according to a new...Read More
The Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary School, Dr. David Moinina Sengeh has stated that there is no way the government alone can transform education without the contribution of Non-State Actors. His comment came at the World Government Summit in Dubai on Tuesday, March 29, 2021 “When people talk about non-state actors, we immediately look...Read More
The Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) on Friday, April 1, 2022, effectively commences Sierra Leone’s Validation against the 2019 EITI Standard. In accordance with the new validation model adopted by the EITI Board, the process will assess whether EITI implementation in Sierra Leone is in line with the provisions of the EITI...Read More
Last week, stakeholders made significant progress in the preparation stage of the Freetown Cable Car project through the completion of a due diligence mission by the C40 Cities Finance Facility (CFF) team. Council had previously applied for technical support from the CFF to get the Freetown Cable Car Project ready for financing and to link...Read More
Over the past week, the nation has been going through an unprecedented scarcity in the fuel market, leading to a lot of speculations from the general public. On march 30, 2022, the Vice President of Sierra Leone, Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, gave an interview to a radio station, in a bid to dispelling the rumours...Read More
Fanta S. Kamara aka Fantacee Wiz, a Sierra Leonean folksinger has been awarded the most Influential woman among 49 women nominated in Sierra Leone. She won the category of ‘Gender Activist’. The Fifty Most Influential Sierra Leonean Women Award is an initiative of twenty-two youth and women-led organizations supported by Kids Advocacy Network to spotlight...Read More
The Sierra Leone Labour Congress (SLLC) has observed that over the last couple of years the prices of basic commodity have been on a steady increase which has seriously eroded the earning power of their members and the wider society. The Secretary General of SLLC Consequently, Max K Conteh said in a position statement on...Read More
The 2021 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) analysis has shown that the number of candidates meeting university requirements has increased astronomically by fifteen-fold from 3,156 in 2019 to 51,748 students in 2021. For direct entry to a first full-degree programme in Sierra Leone, universities require a minimum of 5 credits of which one...Read More
The National Election Watch (NEW) has in a press release put out on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, said that only 46.0% of voters participated in constituency 005 parliamentary bye-election in Kailahun district, and 39.9% in the bye-election in constituency 073 in Port Loko district. The percentages shows that only 9,100 votes were cast out of...Read More
