Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 November 2018: ‘The African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina last Tuesday made an impassioned call for investors to join the partnership platform offered by the Africa Investment Forum and “grab the chance to fast track the continent’s investment and development agenda”. His message was a clarion [Read More]

Sierra leone Telegraph: 10 November 2018: The Africa Investment Forum which started on November 7 ended yesterday Friday, 9th November 2018 at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg. The game changing event, aimed at attracting multi-billion-dollar deals across the continent, is expected to usher in a new era for Africa’s investment [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 November 2018: As the budding automobile company, Dangote Sinotruk West Africa Limited entered another phase in its expansion drive. The Company has said that it was increasing its local input into the assembling plant to up to 60 percent, even as it plans to roll out [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 November 2018: Because of Africa’s growing population, every year a high number of young jobseekers enter a labour market which cannot provide a workplace for all.  In order to create jobs for the youths and foster a prosperous Africa, skills development and youth entrepreneurship are key. [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]