December 2021

Tribunal takes an oath to investigate Auditor General and Deputy

Members of the recently constituted tribunal to investigate the Auditor General, Lara Taylor-Pearce and her deputy, Tamba Momoh, have taken an oath before President Bio as required by law. Chairperson of the tribunal is Honourable Justice Nyawo Finda Matturi-Jones, JSC, a retired Supreme Court Judge, described by her peers as a fine woman with unblemished […]

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President Xi Jinping Special Rep discusses Advances Cooperation with President Bio

Yang Jiechi, Special Representative of President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China, led a high-level team to meet President Bio, to discuss developing collaboration, and communicate Beijing’s goodwill. .Yang, who is the Director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, also extended warm regards from his government, saying that Sierra Leone and China continued

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VP Jalloh in Ghana on MCC compact meeting

Vice President Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh has arrived in Accra, Ghana, ahead of high-level meetings on the establishment of the Millennium Challenge Cooperation Compact. During this visit, the Vice President will meet with officials from many Ministries, Departments, and Agencies involved in Ghana’s energy sector, including the Electricity Company of Ghana, the Volta River Authority,

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SLRSA starts operation ‘Decongest Freetown’ today

Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority (SLRSA) in collaboration with key stakeholders in the transport sector today Monday 6th December 2021 commence ‘ Operation Decongest Freetown’. The operation emanated as one of the recommendations made by the Transport and Internal Affairs Committee in Parliament after the Wellington Fire disaster for major streets in Freetown to be

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SLCB presents over Le 20 billion profit to Government

Sierra Leone Commercial Bank Limited (SLCB) presented President Bio with a dividend of twenty billion, two hundred and ninety million, seven hundred and twenty-five thousand Leones (20,290,725,000) at the State House in Freetown on Thursday, December 2, 2021. This presentation is the outcome of another successful business year, despite the significant budgetary constraints posed by

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Hepatitis on the increase: sachet water workers encouraged to check status

According to Abu Kargbo of the Directorate of Environmental Health and Sanitation hepatitis is on the increase, hence appealing to sachet water producers to ensure that the status of their workers are checked.    He said that though waterborne diseases like cholera, diarrhea are gradually becoming a thing of the past, however the prevalence of typhoid and

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