Freetown, Monday, 23rd May 2022 – The Government of Japan, through the COVAX Facility, has boosted the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drive in Sierra Leone with a donation of 100,800 doses of AstraZeneca. This consignment of vaccines, which arrived in the country on 1st of May 2022, will complement the country’s vaccination drive, which started in March 2021 to protect people from falling seriously ill or dying from COVID-19. To date,...Read More

Freetown, Sierra Leone; 20th May 2022 – Education ministers and their permanent secretaries from 13 African countries, have concluded a three-day High-Level meeting on Transformative Leadership for Gender Equality in and through Education, during which recommendations were made to mainstream gender equality in and through education. Through a draft manifesto presented on the last day of the meeting, the Ministers in charge of education from Burkina Faso, Chad, Gambia, Liberia,...Read More

The Emmanuel Pious Richards Foundation (EPRF) on Friday, May 20, 2022, commissioned a multi-purpose hall which comprises an office and a dressing room at Serabu, Bumpeh Ngao Chiefdom. During the commissioning, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Foundation, Emmanuel Pious Richard said that the foundation is formed to complement the government’s effort in the area of education, agriculture, infrastructure and health. Mr. Pius Richard explained that even though he...Read More

Africell has donated dozens of mattresses, food condiments, bundles of sachet water and a sum of Le 10, 800,000 for the welfare of a number of girls rendered homeless by a fire accident which burnt down the Boarding Home of Prosperity Girls High School at Rotifunk, Moyamba District. The Girls had resided the boarding school but in the evening of Sunday 30th January 2022, fire broke out there and burnt...Read More

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has concluded an investigation of the Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL), Professor Kelfala Morana Kallon over remarks he made at a pre-legislation presentation to Parliament on November 22, 2021, in which he said, he “bribed” people who were hoarding the Leone to bring it back into the banking system in the sum of US$68 million. The ACC said in a statement on Friday...Read More