The Civil Society Consortium on Service Delivery has on Wednesday given telecom and internet service providers 14 day ultimatum to pay their service levy of 0.75% of their gross income to the Universal Access Development Fund (UADF) or face embarrassment. UADF was established by government through the Telecommunications Act of 2006 and statutory instruments on 17th October 2019. The law provides that the levy should be paid to UADF on 1st January...Read More
A 13 years-old pupil has on Wednesday July 1, 2020, testified before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No.1 on Pademba Road, Freetown, how they were allegedly robbed of their property by Amadu Sow, the accused. The witness recognized the accused and recalled Wednesday June 10, 2020. He said at around 3am while he was asleep in his room he heard his father shouting signaling that thieves had entered the house....Read More
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors on June 29, 2020, approved a US$ 50 million grant to support the Government of Sierra Leone’s flagship program for Free Quality School Education launched in 2018. The Free Education Project will support some initial COVID-19 response activities, including provision of distance learning and communication campaigns on prevention of the disease. Sierra Leone has made significant gains in school enrollment, but education outcomes...Read More
Port Loko District Council has on Monday June 29, 2020, commissioned a newly constructed Maternal and Child Health Post (MCHP) in Magbaingbera village. Magbaingbera, which is well known for the many acreage of oil palm plantation owned by the late Sorie Ibrahim Koroma (S.I. Koroma), is situated in the Maforki Chiefdom, Port Loko District, north-western Sierra Leone. During the commissioning ceremony, the outgoing Chief Administrator of the Port Loko District...Read More
Detective Sergeant 1516, Conteh Abu, attached to the crime writers/exhibit office, C.I.D Headquarters on Pademba Road, has on Tuesday June 30, 2020, presented exhibits including portrait of the Former President of Sierra Leone Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, in a matter in which Dr. Sylvia O. Blyden and Hussein Mukson Sesay, are currently being investigated on charges of seditious libel and other related offences. The exhibits include Five laptop computers of...Read More
