The Chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Mohamed Kenewui Konneh, has on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, issued a press statement informing the public that it will conduct re-run of Parliamentary elections which were canceled in constituency 110 and some other local bye-elections on Saturday, December 12, 2020. According to Konneh, the various constituencies in which the elections are to be conducted includes, constituency 110 in the western area rural...Read More
President Dr Julius Maada Bio has on Tuesday October 20, 2020, stopped at Wilberforce Barracks to inspect the on-going construction of a five-storey building comprising 104 rooms with all modern facilities for single officers. The work is expected to be completed and handed over to the government of Sierra Leone at the end of August 2021. The construction project is a result of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Governments...Read More
Statistician General of the Statistic Sierra Leone (Stats-SL), Professor Osman Sankoh, has announced on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, that the Mid-Term Housing and Population Census which was slated for December 4, 2020, has been rescheduled for April 19, 2021. He made the announcement during a press briefing held at Statistic Sierra Leone’s (Stats-SL) head office at A.J. Momoh Street, Tower Hill in Freetown, during the commemoration of World Statistics...Read More
Traders in Madina town, Tonko Limba Chiefdom in Kambia district, have on Friday October 17, 2020 told Premier News that the closure of the borders have impeded cross-border trade with neighboring Guinea leading to low sales in return. Mabinty Dumbuya, the chairlady of the traders in the chiefdom, explained that before the closure of the border traders imported food stuffs and other commodities that were in short supply in Sierra...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has on Monday October 19, 2020, informed the public that its Elite Scorpion Squad has arrested three staff of the Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA), whom are believed to have allegedly facilitated the embezzlement of over one billion Leones of public fund in a period of six months. The ACC Scorpion Squad struck EDSA billing section on Siaka Stevens Street in Freetown, in order to...Read More
