Freetown, Monday, 23rd May 2022 – The Government of Japan, through the COVAX Facility, has boosted the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drive in Sierra Leone with a donation of 100,800 doses of AstraZeneca. This consignment of vaccines, which arrived in the country on 1st of May 2022, will complement the country’s vaccination drive, which started in...Read More
Freetown, Sierra Leone; 20th May 2022 – Education ministers and their permanent secretaries from 13 African countries, have concluded a three-day High-Level meeting on Transformative Leadership for Gender Equality in and through Education, during which recommendations were made to mainstream gender equality in and through education. Through a draft manifesto presented on the last day...Read More
The Emmanuel Pious Richards Foundation (EPRF) on Friday, May 20, 2022, commissioned a multi-purpose hall which comprises an office and a dressing room at Serabu, Bumpeh Ngao Chiefdom. During the commissioning, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Foundation, Emmanuel Pious Richard said that the foundation is formed to complement the government’s effort in the...Read More
Africell has donated dozens of mattresses, food condiments, bundles of sachet water and a sum of Le 10, 800,000 for the welfare of a number of girls rendered homeless by a fire accident which burnt down the Boarding Home of Prosperity Girls High School at Rotifunk, Moyamba District. The Girls had resided the boarding school...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has concluded an investigation of the Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL), Professor Kelfala Morana Kallon over remarks he made at a pre-legislation presentation to Parliament on November 22, 2021, in which he said, he “bribed” people who were hoarding the Leone to bring it back into the banking...Read More
Dili, Timor-Leste, Southeast Asia, Thursday, 19 May 2022: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Planning and Economic Development (MoPED), Dr. Francis Mustapha Kai-Kai has called at the office of the President of the National Parliament of Timor-Leste, His Excellency Aniceto Guterres Lopes, requesting for support for Sierra Leone’s bid for a seat in the non-permanent category of...Read More
Four people have been held in custody in connection with the killing of Mohamed Kamara, a student of the United Brethen in Christ (UBC) school in Bo, according to police sources. An autopsy conducted on the remains of Kamara had shown that he died due to strangulation on Friday May 13, 2022. He deceased was...Read More
Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) and education dignitaries from 16 Africa Countries have developed and presented a manifesto which seeks to address gender inequality in education in Africa and the World at large. The manifesto was developed during a 3-day high-level dialogue at the Bintumani Conference Centre in Freetown. The...Read More
The Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) has said in a statement that aggrieved students alleged to have paid monies to unknown person, who do not have no connection to the Wellington Senior Secondary School (Orphanage) for them to be assisted to take the ongoing West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE). MBSSE...Read More
Justice Momoh Jah Stevens presiding the Sexual Offense Model Court on Friday, May 20, 2022, sentenced 33-year-old Alhaji Fofana to 15 years in prison for sexually penetrating an eight-year-old girl. The convict was before the court on one count of sexual penetration of a child contrary to Section 19 of the Sexual Offences Act of...Read More
