The National Under 17 Technical team headed by Mohamed Lamin Kamara has invited a provisional Under-17 squad to continue preparations for two friendly matches in Liberia slated for the 5th and 8th June 2022. This provisional U-17 squad was drawn from all five regions of the country to start camping in Makeni. The camping session started on Monday, May  23, 2022. The Media Officer Attached, Mansurr Koroma said that camping...Read More

The United Kingdom Minister for Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean on Thursday May 26, 2022, paid a courtesy call on Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio at State House in Freetown. Victoria Grace Ford, a British politician, also thanked the President for the many reforms that would add to the attainment of modern democracy. She said that the Free Quality Education initiative was particularly crucial, especially with premium...Read More

Almost 13 percent of the 39 percent of the target population who have received the first dose of a COVID-19  vaccibe hadn’t returned  to get second shot to protect them from pandemic, according to data from the Ministry of Health and Sanitation. This raised fears that the country might not be able to attain it 70 percent vaccine benchmark  on vaccine uptake by end of 2022.   Experts says this gap...Read More

The fight against Covid-19 misinformation and disinformation has a gloomy feel in Sierra Leone where authorities are flagging it as a “life-or-death” issue in slogans designed to warn the population. Misinformation is false information shared by people who do not intend to mislead others. Disinformation is false information deliberately created and disseminated with malicious intent.  “If you are not sure of the information you are sharing, do not share. If...Read More

Street beggars are most vulnerable to COVID-19 and could be spreaders of pandemic because they are mostly among crowd interacting with a lot of people. To minimize the risk of contracting the pandemic, it is prudent to increase COVID-19 vaccine update among this population. But date suggests that there is low vaccine update among this special group. There are only five percent of street beggars who have taken one or...Read More