For the first time since March 2020, families and friends will be allowed to visit inmates at the Freetown Male Correctional Centre on Pademba Road beginning next week. The Sierra Leone Correctional Service (SLCS) announced on Monday that it will open its facility to families and friends on Tuesday November 3, 2020. “The SLCS is aware of the looming presence of the COVID- 19, and in that light has put...Read More
Ballanta Academy of Music and the Performing Arts have on Sunday October 25, 2020 celebrated it 25 years of existence at the AYV auditorium at Wesley in Freetown. To mark the occasion, different performers from the Academy: Emmanuel Bishop, a violist; Ibrahim S.Bangura, a flutist; band which sings in chapel style and sometimes accompanied by instruments named the Groove Colors and The Five Stars Brass, etc. displayed their skills. In...Read More
State House, Freetown, Thursday 22 October, 2020 – The new United Nations Resident Coordinator to Sierra Leone, Babatunde Ahonsi, has called on President Dr Julius Maada Bio to present his letter of appointment by the UN Secretary General. ”It is with utmost humility and great honour that I present my credentials as the United Nations Resident Coordinator appointed by His Excellency, the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, to serve...Read More
President Dr Julius Maada Bio has on Thursday October 22, 2020, commissioned four inshore patrol boats donated by the South Korean government to the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) at the White Man’s Bay Navy headquarters in Freetown. Commander of the Maritime Wing, Captain Navy Philip Juana, told the ceremony that the role of the Navy was to protect the territorial waters and its ecosystem, adding that the...Read More
The National COVID-19 Emergency Response Centre (NaCOVERC) will scale down its personnel by minimum of 40 percent from November 1, 2020, a senior official of NaCOVERC said on Friday. The Spokesperson of NaCOVERC, Solomon Jamiru Esq. said in statement on Friday that “this decision was reached at a workforce rationalization conference held from 19-21 October at the Golden Tulip, Aberdeen in Freetown.” “This marked the 30th week of the Coronavirus...Read More
