Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2021: In December 2020 the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), the Freetown City Council (FCC) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) jointly launched the Freetown-Blue Peace project, an initiative that will leverage innovative finance to implement a sustainable water [Read More]
Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2021: Isatu Sesay, a resident of Kissy Brook in eastern Freetown, Sierra Leone, buys water daily from young men in the community who hawk five-gallon water jugs loaded on flatbed pushcarts. “We pay Le500 [USD .50 cents] for each five gallons of water,” [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2021: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone yesterday announced a new Le100 Billion National Enterprise Development Fund, at a well-attended event in the northern town of Magburaka. The fund will support micro, small and medium-sized businesses that are struggling to gain access to finance [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2021: The funeral of Alhaji Miniru Alhusaine Savage will take place at the Gardens of Peace Muslim Cemetery, Five Oaks Lane, Chigwell Essex, IG7 4QP , London at 11:00AM, tomorrow Sunday, 14th February 2021. Due to Covid-19 restrictions the maximum number of people allowed in [Read More]
Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 February 2021: Indisputably, in any nation, the private sector is considered to be the engine of economic growth rather than the public sector, as it creates jobs as well as contributes towards internal mobilization of revenue through the payment of taxes which, in [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 February 2021: Corruption has always been and will continue to be a permanent universal feature in our lives. In Sierra Leone, irrespective of one’s political affiliation, we all agree that corruption is not only prevalent, but also one of the diseases haemorrhaging our economic [Read More]
Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2021: In 2012, it was the time of Julius Maada Bio to petition election of Ernest Bai Koroma. Bio did not succeed. His petition was thrown out because of a technical mistake he made – he delayed to file within 7 [Read More]
BBC Africa Eye: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 February 2021: BBC Africa Eye documentary follows the life of a group of sex workers in Sierra Leone, where sex workers are often seen as immoral outcasts to be shunned and avoided, even though their profession is legal. BBC Africa Eve investigates an [Read More]
Prof. Samuel Edmond Nonie: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 February 2021: I write to make a public statement on the unfortunate misunderstanding caused by the actions of a group of colleagues and myself, through our organizing under the name of “the SLPP Union of Lecturers”. A meeting was held on the [Read More]
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