After losing two international test matches, the senior male national football team of Sierra Leone, Leone Stars were on Sunday, October 25, 2020, moved to a training camp in Bo City for intensive and undistracted training ahead of the highly anticipated back-to-back 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches against the Super Eagles of Nigeria in November. Assistant Coach 1 Amidu Karim said, “This move will help both the players...Read More
The Budget Advocacy Network (BAN) in its ‘2020 Revised Domestic Revenue and 2023 Revenue to GDP Target’ report has indicated that the National Revenue Authority (NRA) must raise at least 1.7% GDP per month on average in order to reach its target of 20% GDP ratio to revenue by 2023. The Report was launched on Thursday in Freetown. The report also mentioned that the government initial measures to slow the...Read More
The Parliament of Sierra Leone has on Tuesday October 27, 2020 approved a US$40 million loan agreement for the educational sector of the country. The loan agreements approved by Parliament are: 1. Loan Agreement between the Republic of Sierra Leone and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), Dated 19th October 2019; and 2. Loan Agreement Between the Republic of Sierra Leone and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in...Read More
The Vice President Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh has reechoed President Julius Maada Bio’s commitment to support ecosystem governance. Vice President Jalloh referenced President Bio’s statement to the Sierra Leone House of Parliament last year to support ecosystem governance, noting that the recruitment of five hundred game/forest guards to patrol protected areas in Sierra Leone fulfils the President statement. The recruitment of the five hundred forest guards, Dr. Jalloh maintained, was...Read More
President of the Union of Timber Factory Owners, Nimer A.Dayekh, who also doubles as the Managing Director of Nazadco Trading Company (SL) Limited, has called on President Bio to have a rethink about his decision to appoint a single agent in charge of exporting timber out of the country. He told Premier News recently that if the government refuses to remove some of the bottlenecks around the trade they would...Read More
