As the National Youth Service (NYS) continues its fourth-quarter monitoring and supervision of the second batch of corps members, the Executive Director of NYS, Mohamed Onanah Jalloh, has called on institutions to strengthen mutual capacity for effective engagement of corps members. He also called for a better partnership between NYS and other state and non-state institutions to improve the welfare packages for corps members. He made the calls when NYS...Read More
Action Against Hunger, the world expert on hunger and malnutrition with over 40 years of operational experience, confirmed during the World Food Day on Friday, October 16, 2020, that over 7% of the world’s children under age five – approximately 47 million children in 2019 suffer from acute malnutrition. It further says that world hunger is projected to rise to an additional 132 million people this year as a result...Read More
Dozens of persons of interest have filed petitions at the Court of Appeal challenging the outcomes of Commissions of Inquiry which were set up by President Julius Maada Bio to look into governance processes and assets of public officials during the Ernest Bai Koroma administration, a senior government official said on Monday. The Principal Legal Consultant, Office of the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Barrister Lahai Momoh Farmah disclosed...Read More
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) in a statement on its website has confirmed that all November African Nations Cup qualifiers to be played behind closed doors. CAF says all matches will be played in an empty stadium due to the rise of the Covid-19 pandemic across the globe. This comes after the end of a video conference with National Security and Safety Officers of its member federations on Thursday....Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is mandated to lead the fight against corruption through prevention, public education, enforcement, and compliance for the good of all Sierra Leone. In keeping with its public education objectives, the Commission’s Public Education and Outreach Unit in Kono District on November 6, 2020 educated staff and students of the University of Management and Technology (UNIMTECH) in Koidu City to support the campaign against corruption. Public Education...Read More
