The All Petroleum Products Sierra Leone (APP-SL) has taken the driving seat to supply our sister country Guinea with fast, large and high quality petroleum products to ease the fuel problem the Guineans are faced with since the fire disaster that burnt down their fuel distribution facility in Conakry in December last year. Speaking to the Global Times, Nfa Amara …

By Amin Kef (Ranger). In the wake of the 2022 Audit Report released by the Audit Service Sierra Leone (ASSL), the Gento Group of Companies, led by CEO Mohamed Gento Kamara, vehemently denies accusations of receiving double payment for the Waterloo Township Roads Contract. The audit report, which raised concerns over the handling of funds in the $42,782,727 contract with …

Before the end of December 2023, some local contractors were very optimistic about the government’s firm promise to settle a huge chunk of the verified domestic arrears owed them. However, they were deeply disappointed when they started getting all sorts of excuses from some senior officials in the Ministry of Finance including the Minister himself. In the beginning, they were …

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Transport and Aviation, Alhaji Fanday Turay Esq and the Minister of Transport and Logistics of Saudi Arabia, Saleh Al-Jasser, have signed a bilateral Air Service Agreement (ASA) to allow the free movements of commercial flights between the two countries. The milestone signing of the ASA agreement between the two countries at the 15th International Civil Aviation …

His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has joined other Heads of State and Government on a Presidential Panel with the theme: ‘Unlocking Africa’s Value-Chains’ and talked about the barriers to Africa’s economic transformation. In his royal address to the opening of the Africa Investment Forum, His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, said that Morocco had made infrastructural development …

His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has, in two separate developments, met His Excellency Dr Yousef bin Abdullah Al-Benyan, the Saudi Minister of Education and also engaged Yasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan, Governor of the Saudi Public Investment Fund, PIF, the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In his meeting with Dr Yousef Al-Benyan, President Bio paid …

Ahead of the Financial Year 2024 Budget Speech Day on Friday, 10th November, 2023 the Government is currently scrutinizing proposals for tax increases on imported cement and iron rods, according to a senior official in the Ministry of Finance. An emergency Cabinet meeting was held yesterday to look at the proposals. Up until last night, there was no confirmation that …

The Press Secretary at State House, Solomon Jamiru Esq, yesterday confirmed the appointment of Dr Ibrahim Stevens as the substantive Governor of the Central Bank. He succeeds Prof Kelfala Kallon. Dr. Stevens, who held the position of Deputy Governor since 2014, brings a wealth of experience, including a background as a Senior Economist at the Bank of England and holding …

His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has addressed the Committee of Ambassadors from the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), on the sidelines of the Rebranding Africa Forum, making a strong case for Sierra Leone as one of Africa’s investment destinations. The President, who was in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday as a guest of honour and keynote …

By Mohamed Fofanah [email protected]. ARISE Integrated Industrial Platforms (ARISE IIP) began an intensive operation on September 1, 2023, to erect boundary walls for the construction of 15 factories, providing 34,000 direct and indirect jobs in 24 months at the Sierra Leone Industrial Zones (SIZ) in Koya. Speaking at the maiden media tour on the facility Friday, ARISE announced that it …