By Desmond Tunde Coker Bo Rangers have again won the Sierra Leone Premier League for the second time in a row this weekend after defeating their arch rivals Wusum Stars from Makeni by 2-0 at the newly built 600 Southern Arena in Bo. Abu Komeh and Suffian Kaloko scored to make sure the title remains in the provinces. Bo Rangers has won the League with some games yet to be...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu State House, Freetown, Friday 30 June 2023 – Sixteen Tribal Heads from across the Western Area Rural and Urban have called at the Presidency to congratulate His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio and his Vice President, Dr Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh on their re-election, expressed hope for the success of their agenda. Chairman of the Council of Tribal Heads in the Western Area, Sahr Orlando Gbekie,...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker The Western Area Football Association membership has on Friday, June 30th, 2023 re-elected Pastor Phillip Buck as their Chairman for a second term of four years. The election was held at the Senior Police Officers Mess, at Kingtom in Freetown. The election was held after the incumbent’s four-year mandate expired, making it necessary for it to be renewed, which the Chairman of the Congress, Mr. Abdul...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu The former Attorney General and Minister of Justice has supported calls from some sections of the society for the All People’s Congress (APC) party to seek legal redress challenging the outcome of the June 24 President Election. European election observers in Sierra Leone said there were “statistical inconsistencies” in the presidential results published by the electoral commission, which declared President Julius Maada Bio the winner...Read More
By DOMINIC MORRELL Coffee developers in Sierra Leone have offered hope for climate-resilient solutions as rising temperatures and changes in rainfall threaten to wipe out more than half of the world’s coffee production. Significant progress has been achieved in a Sierra Leonean project to recultivate a historic local species better adapted to higher temperatures. Stenophylla coffee, also known by its scientific name Coffea stenophylla, has been grown successfully in a pilot...Read More