Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 November 2018: President Julius Maada Bio has ended his international assignment after a gruelling week in Senegal and Europe, attending summit and meeting with the European Commission and potential investors for the country. On Monday he met with the UK Member of the European Parliament – [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 November 2018: The Welfare Committee of Parliament yesterday, Wednesday 7th November 2018, called on the Financial Secretary of the Ministry of Finance to submit the country’s public sector wages structure and salary details to Parliament. According to report from the Parliament Communications Unit, the committee says [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2018: President Julius Maada Bio has received a huge boost from the European Commission in Brussels, after the Commission promised to provide 73 million euros funding to the government of Sierra Leone. This follows a successful meeting between President Bio and the European Commission President [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2018: Barely two weeks into his post, Sierra Leone’s newly appointed High Commissioner to the UK – Mr. Tamba Sylvanus Lamina, is off to a flying, though busy start. From his office in central London, High Commissioner Tamba Lamina is busy working his way through [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2018: Sierra Leone has taken a giant technological leap. Scientists working at a newly established agency responsible for innovation, which was launched last week within the Office of the President, are now using code to fight corruption. Only 3 out of every 100 citizens in [Read More]
Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2018: The government’s 2019 budget indeed spells good news for many Sierra Leoneans. 5000 teachers, 3000 health sector workers and 1000 police officers will be recruited in 2019. A significant number of pensioners who now receive less than Le20, 000 per month as [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2018: Africa Oil Week kicked off with a strong start for its 25th anniversary as delegates converged at the Welcome Reception to celebrate the spectacular opening of Africa Oil Week 2018 and the conference got underway last Monday, 5th November. The first session on Economic [Read More]
Eleni Mourdoukoutas: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2018: Environmental initiatives reduce pollution and embrace renewable energy. For years, Kenyans freely used and disposed of plastic bags. The bags were ubiquitous—in the markets, in the gutters and in the guts of 3 out of every 10 animals taken to slaughter. Nakuru, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2018: The Office of the Clerk of Parliament yesterday wrote a letter to the Financial Secretary in the ministry of finance and economic development, requesting information on the salaries of Judges, Magistrates, Permanent Secretaries and other Heads of government institutions, following last week’s public row [Read More]
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