By Desmond Tunde Coker last Saturday Sierra Leone Commercial Bank (SLCB) defeated the winner of the four-team gala Rokel Commercial Bank (RCB)1-0 at the police field in Kingtom. The only goal was scored by Saidu Tom Kargbo. The purpose of the four-team gala is to foster good relationships among the banks. Three matches were played on Saturday including a comic female match between SLCB Vs RCB. The SLCB won the...Read More
By Victoria Moores Freetown International’s new terminal has five times the passenger capacity of the old facility and will be able to accommodate eight widebody jets. Turkish construction Summa has completed a new 14,000-m² (150,000-ft.2) terminal at Freetown International Airport in Sierra Leone, under a US$270 million build, operate and transfer contract with the Sierra Leone government. The new terminal has five times the passenger capacity of the old facility and...Read More
By Alusine Sesay President Julius Maada Bio has asked the Governor of the Central Bank of Sierra Leone to proceed on leave, sources at the Bank said on Tuesday. Professor Kelfala Kallon was said to have received a letter to the effect on Monday. Dr Ibrahim Stevens, the substantive deputy governor, is to act as the governor of the central bank. The university professor has been Governor of the Central...Read More
By Ibrahim S. Bangura and Abdul Mansaray The Ballanta Academy of Music and Performing Arts has on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, at their Logie Wright Auditorium in Freetown unveiled ‘Remembering Our Legends’ project to recognize and honour past and present legends of the arts industry in Sierra Leone. The project, which was undertaken by the Academy and sponsored by the African Caribbean Pacific Parliament Arts and the European Union (ACP-EU)...Read More
AN ANALYSIS BY ALIMAMY LAHAI KAMARA The crowd was unimaginably massive! A confluence of indigenes from all direction sewn in hysteria – those in Masoila and Tintafor, who for years had dreamt of the resurrection of Lungi; those in Rutifunk, Kambia, and Lungi town, who for similar years had fought for an unseparated Lungi from its historic image; and those in Kingsway, Banda Wharf and Malokoh, who had advocated the...Read More
