The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) with support from the Petroleum Regulatory Agency (PRA), over the weekend conducted a pilot risk assessment and hazard profiling of four fuel stations (Leonco – Congo Cross, Total – Bus Halt, NP – Siaka Stevens Street and Malador – Dwazark Junction) in Freetown. The risk assessment is designed to be rolled out across the country. The assessment is geared towards identifying fuel stations that...Read More
Matagelema, Sierra Leone – Not long after daybreak in Matagelema, a village in the south of Sierra Leone’s Moyamba District, a jubilant chorus rings out from a stretch of a once-neglected swamp surrounded by tropical forest. “When we are ploughing, people are getting jealous,” dozens of women farmers sing gleefully, ankle-deep in mud in a sprawling paddy field. Through their backbreaking work – carving out rice paddies from thickly-forested swamp land...Read More
The Assistant Coach of Ports Authority Football Club, Hassan Sesay has told Premier News that his side is ready to change the face of club. His statement came after Port Authority defeated SLIFA by 2-1 in the ongoing Sierra Leone Premier League on Sunday, February 13, 2022 at the Approved School field in Freetown. Sesay commended the performance of his boys which he described as ‘a perfect team work’. “Two...Read More
President Dr Julius Maada Bio on Saturday February 12, 2022, paid tribute to the late Paramount Chief Member of Parliament, Sahr Fengai Korgbende Kaimachainde III, saying the death of the influential traditional leader is a big loss to the Kono people and the nation. The late Paramount Chief, who was born on 24 November 1936 and died on 11 January 2022, was buried in his hometown of Gbense in the...Read More
Clifford Amiru Dumbuya, 49, and Christiana Gladys Roberts, 38, were yesterday refused bail by Magistrate SahrKekura of Court No 1 after the accused were arraigned on allegation of wounding Roland Lansana Robert, the husband of the second accused. The accused persons were arraigned on six counts including causing grievous bodily harm, wounding with intent, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, all contrary to the laws of Sierra Leone. According to the...Read More
