Ikubolaje Nicole, the Managing Director of Sky Bank, Sierra Leone, has been remanded in custody by Magistrate Marke Ngegba, who preside over Pademba Road Court No. 1 in Freetown, following allegations that he murdered his fiancée.The police claim that Ikubolaje Nicole, the defendant, planned Sinnah Kai Kargbo’s murder with unidentified individuals on several occasions between […]
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The development arm of the Catholic Archdiocese of Freetown in Sierra Leone has been selected as the implementing partner of a project by the Healey International Relief Foundation (HealeyIRF), a development agency that seeks to improve health access in the West African country. Announcing the new collaboration on November 18 at a press conference, Ishmael Alfred Charles,
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President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra leone is in spending four days in London, United Kingdom, first to share his leadership strategies with the House of Lords on the COVID-19 pandemic and the current global economic crisis and later to meet private sector investors, according to State House. “As the pandemic spread and we
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Sierra Leonean lawmakers on Tuesday 15 November 2022 passed legislation to introduce a gender quota in parliament, a major campaign promise by the president, following years of delays and false starts, reports AFP.com. After several hours of debate Tuesday, members of parliament voted unanimously to pass the Gender Empowerment Act, ensuring that one in three
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The DOHANEWS has reported that Germany’s Antonio Rudiger, also Real Madrid’s defender, has agreed to donate a portion of his World Cup winnings to help Sierra Leonean children receive life-saving surgeries. With the World Cup approaching, Rudiger says his contributions to the BigShoe charity is a “matter of honor” and that he would “like to
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President Julius Maada Bio today encouraged youth to be innovative, learn from experts and network as they seek to become employers and job creators at the first National Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Fair in Sierra Leone. Below is part of his keynote address to the over 500 young people who have converged on the
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First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Fatima Maada Bio, has introduced a Draft Resolution to Declare November 18 as the “World Day for the Prevention of and Healing from Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Violence” at the UN General Assembly. According to a press release from the Permanent Mission of the Republic
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The recently concluded business for growth, not for survival trade fair in Bo, according to German International Corporation’s deputy program coordinator for the employment promotion program, Rudolfr Schneider, aims to transform survival-oriented businesses into market-oriented growth enterprises that will then achieve micro industrial status for increased job and income generation.The private sector component is one
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Sierra Leone and many African countries at the Cop27 in the Egyptian city of Sharm El Sheikh have called on developed nations to stop talking and start acting on promises of financial support to help them tackle the fallout from climate change. Read the original story here The continent, which is home to
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“For you to have sustained economic development, you have to promote the economic emancipation of women,” said Sierra Leone’s Bank Governor, Professor Kaifala Kallon. Delivering a keynote address at the launching of the public relations roll out of the upgraded Sierra Leone Collateral Registry, yesterday Thursday 3 November at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Aberdeen the
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