Economy & Business

Concerned Citizen: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 September 2019: A young man works for one of the government ministries in Sierra Leone. His salary is Le 600,000. But he makes between Le 500,000 to Le1,000,000 depending on the turn out every day on his desk (at least Le 2,500,000 a week) [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 September 2019: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commissioner scored another big confidence booster with the public yesterday, after his investigators intercepted a major exams fraud in Freetown. At 9:30 am yesterday morning, the ‘Scorpion Squad’ of the Anti-Corruption Commission supported by the Sierra Leone Police, raided Fatibu Technical [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 September 2019: The United States Embassy in Freetown will tomorrow, Monday 9 September, announce the launch of a feasibility study that could bring clean power to thousands of people in Sierra Leone. The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), will fund a [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 September 2019: Orange Sierra Leone (Orange-SL) has signed a TV sponsorship deal with the Vickie Remoe Show (VRS) to support the latter’s campaign to #makeSierraLeoneFamous – for the right reasons. “We are not just in Sierra Leone to be the best in class multi service provider, we [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2019: The government of Sierra Leone took a bold step today, abolishing the requirement for all visitors travelling to the country to obtain visa at their country of embarkment, before arriving in Freetown. Although many were expecting the government to waive or abolish visa charges [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2019: Johnson & Johnson today announced the winners of the Champions of Science Africa Innovation Challenge 2, at the 28th World Economic Forum on Africa (WEF) in Cape Town, South Africa. The six winning businesses and programs offer bold, entrepreneurial approaches to tackling major healthcare [Read More]

Abayomi Tejan: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2019: President Julius Maada Bio has dared his government and public servants; there will be no more safe haven for those who steal government money. And fortune seems to be in his favour. This is Sierra Leone’s first and last opportunity to do [Read More]

Sammy D. Massaquoi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 September 2019: It seems that whenever an economy is in problems, the citizens enrol in a mandatory economics class. The class of 2019 describes a citizenry in search of a better narrative as they grapple with the daily challenges of living, for ours [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 September 2019: It’s been more than 15 years since the end of Sierra Leone’s civil war – and later a devastating Ebola outbreak – both of which combined to make an underperforming economy difficult to revive. Sierra Leone has one of the highest youth unemployment rates [Read More]