Sierra Leone’s Minister of information and Communication, Mohamed Rahman Swaray, has on Tuesday September 1st 2020 said that, the interests of citizens are at the centre of the unbundling of the National Fibre Optic asset. The Asset comprises the Submarine Cable and the National Terrestrial Backbone which is presently managed by the Sierra Leone Cable Limited (SALCAB), an optical fibre infrastructure company entirely owned by the Government of Sierra Leone....Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has updated the public of the actions and steps it has taken to address critical issues raised in the Auditor General’s Reports of Sierra Leone. In a statement it put out on Monday August 31st 2020 the ACC said its interventions focused on aspects of possible or alleged corruption, and conducts inconsistent with provision(s) in the Anti-Corruption Act of 2008. After a thorough review, and analysis...Read More
Poet Samuella Conteh has been honoured with Prashamshith Pathr (Certificate of Honour) from the world’s most active writers’ forum ‘Motivational Strips’ and Indian Government’s premier Literary institution, ‘Gujarat Sahitya Akademi’. Samuella Conteh is a prominent Sierra Leonean poet who has been writing vivid poetry from her young age. She is a role model to all her fellow writers, having won an International award of such stature from two gigantic literary...Read More
The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone (HRCSL) has in a statement which it put out on Friday August 28, 2020 vehemently condemned hate messages, diatribes and persons who make, promote and propagate such messages, and also called on certain persons who have recently made such unpatriotic utterances on Social Media practices to desist forthwith. In press statement the Commission went on to informed the public that it had been...Read More
The attention of the Ministry of Information and Communications has been drawn to rumor making the rounds on various Social Media platforms and other media institutions indicating that Government has sold Sierra Leone Cable Network Limited (SALCAB). “The Ministry would like to inform the general public that Government has no intention of selling SALCAB and that this rumour is baseless and unfounded,” the Ministry of Information and Communication said in...Read More
