The Sierra Leone High Commissioner to Ghana, Her Excellency Francess Anderson has confirmed that the former Head of State and Chairman of the National Provisional Revolutionary Council (NPRC) military regime, Rtd. Capt. Valentine Essegrebo Melvin Strasser would be discharged from the Eurocare Advanced Diagnostic and Heart Center in Accra tomorrow, where he was flown by the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) for surgery on his left leg.

After a nine-hour surgery on his left leg, the 5…

In continuation of his nationwide thank-you and meet the people tour, His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio will arrive today in the swing political district of Kono which decisively determined the outcome of the keenly contested March 2018 presidential run-off election that saw Bio emerge as the winner.

Ahead of this auspicious visit, Vice President Dr. Juldeh Jalloh led an advanced team that arrived in Kono on Wednesday to prepare the ground for the President’s visit.

It co…

Minister of Works and Infrastructure, Raymond De Souza George has disclosed that by 2020 government would have completed the remaining 8 Kilometres long road linking Lumley and Tokeh.

Speaking doing an inspection tour at the road project site, Minister George explained that the project will recommence in two month’s time.

He pointed out that the project site tour was to obtain firsthand information, make assessment and hear from the contractors on when they would recommence work …

By Thomas S. Kembay

In a bid to have private Chinese investors in produce sector in Sierra Leone, the Executive Chairman of the Produce Monitoring Board (PMB) Dr. James Vibbi on Monday 14th January, 2019 met with the Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Mr. Wu Peng at his Embassy’s Offices in Freetown.

The purpose of the meeting was to initiate plans and strategies on how to collaborate and partner to increase investment in the produce sector in the country.

His Excellency Ambassado…

Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad have been following with keen interest former Vice President Victor Bockarie Foh’s diatribe against his former boss, ex-President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma and his party, the All People’s Congress (APC).

Former VP Victor B. Foh is report in both the social and traditional media to have charged that it is not the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) that is responsible for the political tension in the country but his party, the APC, for refusing to a…

By Ayodele Deen-Cole

The Minister of Lands, Country Planning and the Environment, Dr. Dennis Sandy has disclosed that His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio plans to relocate State House to a 2800-acre land the government has recently repossessed at Gloucester Village and to also construct important government buildings on the land.

Dr. Denis Sandy disclosed that funds for the construction of a new State House would be provided by the Government of Julius Maada Bio while the o…

By Ayodele Deen-Cole

Member of Parliament representing the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), Hon. Dixon Rogers has, following his meeting with the Inspector General of Police, reportedly advised aggrieved colleague Members of Parliament representing the Coalition For Change (C4C) Party to seek redress in the Office of the Attorney General and Minister of Justice over the recent withdrawal of state security from their party’s Chairman and Leader, former Vice President, Chief Alhaji…

The Minister of Lands, Housing and the Environment, Dr. Denis Sandy this week reportedly continued work aimed at rationalizing land ownership nationwide.

This time the Lands Minister reportedly took the exercise to the Southern and Eastern Regions starting in the two regional headquarters of Bo and Kenema cities. In Bo, Dr. Denis Sandy and team on Monday reportedly engaged landowning families with regards Government Reservation Land and the Airfield, and that an agreement was reache…

By Thomas S. Kembay

The Executive Chairman of the Produce Monitoring Board (PMB), Dr. James Vibbi is reported to have said he would resign if Parliament insists that he withdraws his letter of suspension and reinstates the Executive Secretary of the Board.

Responding to orders given to him on Tuesday 15th January, 2019 by the Speaker of Parliament, Hon. Abass Chernor Bundu to write an apology letter to Hon. Veronica Kadie Sesay and Members of Parliament; withdraw a complaint lett…

The Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) under His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio is reportedly planning to commence the payment of pension and gratuity to Rtd. Capt. Valentine Esegrebo Melvin Strasser as former Head of State of the Republic of Sierra Leone.

The former Head of State is at present recovering from a successful surgical operation in Accra, Ghana.

The decision by government to pay his gratuity and pension has been welcomed by many concerned Sierra Leoneans who be…

 By Sheik Sesay     

Development experts have asserted that when you put the right person in the right place, the job is as good as excellently done or mastered.

In which vein, the name Dr. Alpha Tejan Wurie is synonymous in post-war Sierra Leone with the ‘SABABU Education’ project that had the mammoth task of returning Sierra Leone’s war-torn education system back to normalcy which, true to his go-getter characteristic, he did commendably during his two terms as Minister of Education, Sc…

At the past weekend, the Public Relations Unit of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) announced the arrest of the former Executive Director of the Sierra Leone Maritime Administration, Dr. Sarah Bendu and her husband, Fourah College Economics and Accounting tutor, Dr. Dante Bendu.

The ACC announcement published on Friday, 11th January, 2018 detailed that Dr. Sarah Bendu has been under investigation since the 22nd of December, 2018, following alleged massive corruption at SLMA durin…