A total of 165 school-going children have benefited from the Choithram Scholarship Fund which was provided by the Choithram International Foundation each year to less privileged and excellent pupils. Like previous years, the Foundation has also paid fees for a medical student amounting to Le7, 500,000. The Financial Controller of the Choithram Group, Harish Agnani said that Choithram Scholarship Fund is a regular gesture from the Choithram International Foundation set...Read More
President Dr Julius Maada Bio has taken the first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine during a symbolic ceremony on Monday at State House, where Vice President Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh and opposition politicians also took the jab. Before the vaccination, the President responded to the declaration of purpose of the occasion by Minister of Health and Sanitation, saying that because it was a major milestone, he would take the leadership in...Read More
The Director General of Sierra Leone Local Content Agency (SLLCA), Mr. Fodeba Daboh, and the Commissioner of the National Youth Commission (NAYCOM), Ngolo Thomas Katta have on Friday, March 12, 2021, assured IZELIA Textile and Design Training Hub of government support. They gave this assurance during the opening ceremony of the IZELIA Garments, Textile, Design and Factory, at its Training Centre, Kingtom in Freetown. The ceremony was attended by stakeholders...Read More
Mohamed Kaifala Sesay, Programme Officer, Sierra Leone Albinism Foundation. Photo by Stephen V. Lansana Q: I ask this of everyone: what myths have you heard in Sierra Leone about albinism? MKS: There are so many myths and misconceptions. In Sierra Leone, people believe that persons living with albinism do not die. This is just mere fabrication because I know of two colleagues who died after they were diagnosed with skin...Read More
The Organising Secretary for Zone 16, Constituency 020 of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) in Kenema city, Wahab Kanneh has sustained two stab wounds and head injuries in an intra-party violence on Saturday March 13, 2021 at the Party’s office in Kenema. According to trusted sources, Ahead of the lower-level elections within the ruling SLPP, members who went to collect their party ID cards were violently driven...Read More
