Head Coach of the senior male national football team, Leone Stars, John Keister, has invited 41 local footballers to commence training in readiness of the country’s upcoming crucial AFCON qualifiers against Lesotho and Benin in March 2021. Sierra Leone had a back to back draw with Nigeria’s Super eagles. Leone Stars are buzzing with confidence ahead of the final two matches against Lesotho and Benin on the 22nd and 30th...Read More
“As Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we prefer the least complicated vaccines to be the one to us,” the Deputy Director of the Africa CDC said last week. Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma made this comment while giving an update on COVID-19 in Africa during a virtual COVID-19 training organized by Thomson Reuters Foundations for Journalists from Sub-Sahara Africa. He disclosed that discussions are ongoing among Member States,...Read More
The Human Rights Commission Sierra Leone (HRCSL) in their State of Human Rights 2018 Annual report indicated some Police Division detention centres are challenged with poor toilet facilities, pipe-borne water, and health care units. The Report also noted that police cells were dark and lack proper ventilation. According to the report, the Commission said that they observed these conditions at the Kissy Dockyard Station, the Kissy Divisional Headquarters, New England...Read More
After football was put on hold for eleven months (11), the Sierra Leone Premier League Board has in a press statement issued on Thursday January 14th, 2021 informed the public that the Sierra Leone Premier League 2020/2021 season will continue on February 19th, 2021. According to the statement, the decision to restart the League had been agreed upon in a meeting held at the Secretariat of the Sierra Leone Football...Read More
The Human Rights Commission has in its Annual Report for the year 2019 has made it known to the Media that overcrowding is a big problem in the Correctional facilities in the country. The Commission presented the Report to the Media on Thursday January 14th, 2021 at its headquarter in Freetown. Addressing Journalists, Madam Patricia Ndanema, Chairperson Human Right Commission, said that in all the centres the Commission had visited...Read More
