The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has handed over the sum of Le105, 800,000 to authorities of the Aberdeen Women’s Centre. The fund was recovered from staff of the Centre following an investigation into alleged of allegation of misappropriation of Le228,766,494. The recovered fund was handed to the authorities of the centre in two tranches. The balance...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on May 27, 2022, received a copy of the Report on the Audit of the National COVID-19 Emergency Response Centre (NaCOVERC) for the period 1st July to 31st December 2020 by the Audit Service Sierra Leone. The Commission said in a statement on Friday that it has commenced immediate examination of...Read More
The Head of the European Union Delegation in Sierra Leone, Ambassador Manuel Muller, on behalf of the Czech Republic, on Friday, May 27, 2022, handed over 200 hospital beds to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS). The donation is aimed at increasing the number of hospitals beds across the country especially when responding to...Read More
Stigma, poverty, and lack of access to basic services like toilets and water are causing menstrual health and hygiene needs to go unmet and increasing women and girls’ risk of infections, UNICEF warned ahead of Menstrual Hygiene Day. These challenges are particularly acute among the poorest, ethnic groups, refugees, and people with disabilities. “Menstrual health...Read More
A 19-year-old Abibatu Bah on Friday, May 27, 2022 made another appearance before Magistrate Sahr Kekura of Pademba Road Court No.1 in Freetown on two counts of felony and Larceny contrary to law. According to the particulars of the offence, on February 5, 2022 at Roy Hotel, room 102, Lumley Beach Road, Aberdeen in...Read More
The National Under 17 Technical team headed by Mohamed Lamin Kamara has invited a provisional Under-17 squad to continue preparations for two friendly matches in Liberia slated for the 5th and 8th June 2022. This provisional U-17 squad was drawn from all five regions of the country to start camping in Makeni. The camping session...Read More
The United Kingdom Minister for Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean on Thursday May 26, 2022, paid a courtesy call on Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio at State House in Freetown. Victoria Grace Ford, a British politician, also thanked the President for the many reforms that would add to the attainment of modern...Read More
Almost 13 percent of the 39 percent of the target population who have received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccibe hadn’t returned to get second shot to protect them from pandemic, according to data from the Ministry of Health and Sanitation. This raised fears that the country might not be able to attain it...Read More
The fight against Covid-19 misinformation and disinformation has a gloomy feel in Sierra Leone where authorities are flagging it as a “life-or-death” issue in slogans designed to warn the population. Misinformation is false information shared by people who do not intend to mislead others. Disinformation is false information deliberately created and disseminated with malicious intent....Read More
Street beggars are most vulnerable to COVID-19 and could be spreaders of pandemic because they are mostly among crowd interacting with a lot of people. To minimize the risk of contracting the pandemic, it is prudent to increase COVID-19 vaccine update among this population. But date suggests that there is low vaccine update among this...Read More
