By Sallieu S. Kanu The Government of Sierra Leone has set up a cabinet Sub-committee to investigate claims by individuals and corporate bodies to ownership of a piece land in and around the Hastings Airfield, the Ministry of Transport and Aviation said in a statement it put out on Monday 5 September 2022. This came after it was alleged that the authorities have apparently leased the said land to...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker The Inter Community Football League organised by the Central One Football Association COFA commenced on Sunday September 4TH 2022 with the First Lady Fatima Maada Bio taking the kick-off when Summer City locked horns with Fourahbay. A brace from Summer City’s Momoh Dumbuya was enough to silence the noisy Fourahbay Community. President Bio in collaboration with Gento Group of Companies is sponsoring the tournament that is...Read More
In January 2005, Sierra Leone became a State party to the 1972 Convention and identified, in 2012, in its first Tentative List the sites that could potentially be proposed for inscription on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. This year, in January 2022, this Tentative List was updated to include Gola-Tiwai complex as the potential site for the country’s first nomination dossier. Being among the 12 African countries without a site inscribed, Sierra Leone...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu Relatives of the late Hassan Dumbuya aka Evangelist Samson, who was slayed by security personnel early August, has demanded that his corpse be handed over to them for befitting burial at his hometown in Makeni. Evangelist Samson was an ardent critic of the Bio Administration. His video and audio recordings are popular among supporters and sympathisers of the main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) party. The...Read More
By: Edward Nathaniel Blake, Public Education Officer ACC-Kenema The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) eastern region office on Wednesday, August 17, 2022, engaged the hospital management of the Kenema Government Hospital on various corruption allegations. The allegations range from the proliferation of the free health care drugs in markets, to the illegal purchase and sale of “plumpy-nuts” meant for malnourished children, and the overall performance of medics in the discharge of their...Read More
