President Dr Julius Maada Bio today delivered an opening address at the government’s first-ever Presidential Seminar for all 83 heads of commissions, parastatals, agencies and state-owned enterprises at the Bintumani Conference Centre in Aberdeen, Freetown. The theme of the seminar is “Consolidating the Foundation for Service Delivery”, and is designed [Read More]
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 February 2020: In early October, the world celebrated as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria declared its funding target of US$14billion to bring an end to the world’s three deadliest diseases was surpassed at the Sixth Replenishment Conference in France. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 February 2020: The National Coordinator of the Network of Ex-Asylum Seekers – Mr Abdulai Daramy, today urged the government of Sierra Leone to resist the arbitrary deportation of ex-asylum seekers and refugees from the United States of America (USA) and some European countries to Sierra Leone. [Read More]
Abu Bakarr Tarawally: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 February 2020: The 2019 Taxation Perception Survey (TPS) Report was launched in Freetown today. It is the product of a research undertaken by the Public Financial Management (PFM) consortium, led by Christian Aid Sierra Leone, and four other partners including the Budget Advocacy [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 February 2020: Last Friday, the African Development Bank called on development finance institutions, NGOs, farmer cooperatives, and the private sector to develop more effective financing solutions for Africa’s fertilizer value chains. The Bank’s call to action came during the Argus Africa Fertilizer Conference held on 19 [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 February 2020: President Dr Julius Maada Bio, who is also the Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone (USL), yesterday urged thousands of young graduands of the university to become the entrepreneurs who will pioneer innovative local solutions that meet the needs of Sierra Leone and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 February 2020: Yesterday, 22nd February 2020, marked a major milestone in the very short history of the National Grand Coalition (NGC) party, as well as in the history of Sierra Leone’s chequered political landscape. The NGC party leadership, launched the final phase of their constitutional consultations [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 February 2020: Sierra Leone’s Institute of Governance Reform (IGR), has critically reviewed President Bio’s declaration of “2020 as a year of delivery” for his government, after telling his ministers a few weeks ago at a weekend retreat that they have fallen far short of achieving the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 February 2020: Today president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone takes his wife – Mrs. Fatima Bio to the altar at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Regent , where they will renew their matrimonial vows which they first took in London in 2013 at a low-key [Read More]
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