The strategic objective of the Ministry of Finance (MoF) for 2021 is to increase domestic revenue mobilization from 12.3% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2017 to 20% by the 2023. This disclosure was made on Tuesday by the acting Director of Research at MoF, Alhaji Komeh while presenting the Ministry’s projected budget of Le 162,762 billion for the 2021 fiscal year at the ongoing budget hearing in conference room...Read More
The Chairman of the blind in Waterloo, Salieu Turay has said that they are homeless, discriminated against and treated unequally by the rest of society. He made this statement when he spoke to Premier News on Monday October 5, 2020. According to him, they face a desperate need of being sheltered and eased of the pains they bear when sleeping rough in the street. He added that providing shelter will...Read More
The Minister of Health and Sanitation, Dr. Alpha Wurie has on Monday October 5, 2020, justified Le182, 306.8 billion recurring budget requested by his Ministry for the financial year 2021. The Health Minister, while speaking in the conference hall at the budget hearing of the Ministry of Finance in Freetown, said that if Sierra Leone as a nation fails to invest in health every other sector will be affected. The...Read More
The recent audio purporting to be from the spokesperson of the Fullah Progressive Union (FPU) President, Alhaji Sanu Barrie accusing the Vice President Mohamed B. Barrie of undermining the FPU president is shocking and disappointing. What I Sense Listening to the audios, I sense insecurity in the narration of the speaker. Mr Mohamed Barrie, Vice President was elected by the FPU delegates together with the President during the annual FPU...Read More
Head coach John Keister will miss the services of five of the thirteen players invited for the test in Nouakchott, Mauritania and Niger. Finland-based duo Rodney Strasser, Mohamed Medo Kamara, Iceland-based winger Kwame Quee, USL Championship joint top scorer Augustus Williams and Reggina striker Augustus Kargbo have all confirmed they would not be available. China-based striker Mohamed Buya Turay and Randers FC attacker Alhaji Kamara will also not be available....Read More
