By Alimatu Jalloh Sierra Leone’s Supreme Court Judge who doubles as the President of Judicial and Legal Training Institute, Honourable Justice Emmanuel Ekundayo Roberts was on the 7th of September, 2022 elected Vice President of the West African Region of Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges’ Association. It should be noted that in the past Sierra Leone could not even contest or present a candidate because the Judiciary was not fully paid...Read More
Professor Kelleh G. Mansaray has on Wednesday 6th September 2022 been approved as the highest scoring interviewee among the four applicants for the position of Deputy Vice Chancellor, FBC and was approved for appointment as the Head of FBC Campus and IPAM respectively with effect 1st October 2022. The Court of the University of Sierra Leone met on 6th September 2022 at the University Committee Room to discuss and approve...Read More
By David Waldstein In the stadiums and sports clubs of Freetown, Sierra Leone, soccer is the favorite topic. But on Tuesday, several hours after Frances Tiafoe, a son of two Sierra Leonean émigrés, beat Rafael Nadal to reach the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open, tennis has nudged itself into the conversation. “Oh, yeah, there is a lot of talk about Tiafoe right now,” Abdulai Kamara, a sports blogger and the owner of the...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker The Sierra Leone Premier League Board has in a media statement it put out on Wednesday 7th of September 2022 informed premier league clubs in Sierra Leone that player registrations for the 2022/2023 league season commenced on the 7th of September 2022 and will end on the 6th October 2022 at 5: 00 pm-Monday. The Sierra Leone Football Association also informed the clubs that after the...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu The Petroleum Directorate of Sierra Leone will be coming to Cape Town to attend and participate at this year’s edition of the African Energy Week (AEW) conference and exhibition – Africa’s premier event for the oil and gas sector which will take place from October 18 – 21 – as a bronze sponsor, according to press statement issued by APO Group on behalf of AEW. With...Read More