The Sierra Leone Police (SLP) has on Saturday, October 10, 2020, warned cassette sellers to desist from selling or distributing the audios and video materials relating to the Thursday, October 8, 2020 incident in Makeni, which was transmitted on compact discs (CDs) and video compact discs (VCDs). It could be recalled that last Thursday, some residents of Makeni including youths and masquerades, lined up the streets leading to the Makeni...Read More
Faith Healing Agricultural Project (F.H.A.P) joins the list of history makers in the Agricultural sector in Sierra Leone when it officially launched its brand of rice to the public on Friday at the farm in Yainkassa village, Makari Chiefdom, Bombali District, northern Sierra Leone. The church’s FHAP project is geared towards making Sierra Leone food sufficient, and help drive away extreme poverty, in the country where agriculture is largely believed...Read More
An Economy in austerity, with domestic revenue to GDP ratio among the lowest in the sub region, plus the suspension of the economic programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that led to low donor confidence and support, was the situation in Sierra Leone before the 2018 general elections. This was the state of the country’s economy that current Minister of Finance, Hon. Jacob Jusu Saffa, inherited upon taking...Read More
In mid-May, 57% of workers reported that their employers had to temporarily lay them off due to the wider economic decline caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey conducted by the Research and Planning Division of the Ministry of Finance. Their findings captured the impacts of COVID-19 on businesses since Sierra Leone records its index case on March 31st to July 2020. The survey indicated that the restrictions...Read More
Happiness Foundation, a humanitarian organization founded by Prophetess Happy Abba, a Sierra Leonean philanthropist based in the United States of America, partnered with Youth Educative Network and on Saturday fed some bike riders and physically challenged persons at Congo Market and Pa Demba Road in Freetown. Emmanuel Patrick Robert, the Country Representative for Happiness Foundation Sierra Leone Chapter and Director of Youth Educative Network, said that as a humanitarian organization,...Read More
