FCC: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 February 2024: Property rates and business licenses account for 60% of Freetown City Council’s own source revenue. The prompt payment of property rates and business licenses by all Freetonians is therefore essential for ensuring that much needed services can be delivered to residents and businesses. [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: 31 January 2024: When President Bio assumed power in 2018, he made two prominent promises, among others to the nation. He promised to “fight corruption” and to provide “Free Quality Education”. The promise to fight corruption was nothing new for Sierra Leoneans. President Bio’s predecessors have always used [Read More]
Murtala Mohamed Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2024: Africa’s population will be urbanized by 2035, according to IsaAfrica. As population grows, basic amenities will become stretched to breaking point. In order to meet this challenge, governments across Africa are planning and preparing for change. A $2 billion Diamniadio city [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 January 2024: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation today presented its Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) 2023 report, titled The Power of Data for Governance: Closing data gaps to accelerate Africa’s transformation. data gaps to accelerate Africa’s transformation). The availability of reliable data is a pillar of [Read More]
Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 January 2024: Micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are the backbone of any economy. In Angola, people are determined to shift away from oil dependency, which currently constitutes nearly 94 per cent of foreign earnings. Although the Angolan economy grew an impressive 3.1 per [Read More]
Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 January 2024: Micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are the backbone of any economy. In Angola, people are determined to shift away from oil dependency, which currently constitutes nearly 94 per cent of foreign earnings. Although the Angolan economy grew an impressive 3.1 per [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 January 2024: One of the Transform Freetown Sanitation targets is “to ensure that at least 60% of solid and liquid waste is safely collected, managed and disposed of”. In order to address the liquid waste element of that target, with funding from FCDO and with GOAL [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 January 2024: CORRECTION: The World Bank Country Manager for Sierra Leone, Abdu Muwonge, has not been replaced as incorrectly reported on the 30th December 2023, by the Sierra Leone Telegraph. It is important to note that the Sierra Leone Country Office is part of the Ghana [Read More]
Andrew Kamara: 13th January 2024: In a shocking revelation by Sierra Leone’s ministry of finance yesterday, seven people believed to be SLPP party operatives working across various government departments, have been caught stealing a staggering Le12 billion (Old Leones). Disturbingly, this financial malfeasance occurred in December 2023, bringing into question [Read More]
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