𝐁𝐲 𝐀𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐫, 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 Sierra Leone’s evolving illicit-drug consumption, and its attendant substance-use disorders and unreported drug-overdose deaths, is unmistakable and depressing. Many youths on street corners; learners and instructors in secondary schools, colleges, and universities; bankers, lawyers, and medical workers; drivers of keke and okada; and public officials, including police officers, soldiers, civil servants, and elective office holders, you …

𝐁𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁. 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐲 The re-elected Speaker of Parliament, Hon. Rtd. Dr. Abass Chernor Bundu has urged all Presidential nominees to expedite the submission of all information required of them to the Clerk of Parliament without further delay. Dr. Abass Bundu made the call yesterday at the first sitting of the Sixth Parliament of the Second Republic. This, Dr. Abass …

The general public is hereby informed that it has pleased His Excellency the President, Brigadier (Rtd.) Dr. Julius Maada Bio to announce the following appointments:Dr. David Sengeh – Chief Minister Mohamed Lamin Tarawally – Attorney General & Justice Minister Timothy Musa Kabba – Foreign Affairs Haja Ramatulaye Wurie – Higher Education Basic Minister – Conrad Sackey Ibrahim Alpha Sesay – …

His Excellency Julius Maada Bio has attended the 63rd Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government and received congratulatory message from the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for West Africa and the Sahel, H.E. Leonardo Santos Simão. In his statement on behalf of the United Nations Secretary-General, H.E. Leonardo Santos Simão congratulated President Bio on …

Freetown, Tuesday 27 June 2023 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has sworn to the Oath of Office of the Presidency after winning on the first ballot in the 24 June 2023 elections, thanking voters and extending open hands to the opposition All People’s Congress leadership to kickstart his inclusive governance agenda. “Today, with the successful conduct of …

𝐁𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐡. Despite the “Ill-preparedness of the All People’s Congress (APC) Party” for the June 24, 2023 multi-tier elections, the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has confirmed that the demand by the APC Presidential candidate for the resignation of the Chief Electoral Commissioner and other Electoral Commissioners will not be met and that the election will go ahead. …

The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) vehemently condemns attacks on its former president Umaru Fofana by members and supporters of the All People’s Congress (APC) during the party flagbearer’s address to the media yesterday Wednesday, 14th June, 2022 at the New Brookfields Hotel, Jomo Kenyatta Road, Freetown. Fofana, who was officially invited by the APC to cover the event, …

The Chief Electoral Commissioner of ECSL, Mohamed K. Konneh said at the Bintumani Conference Centre in Freetown yesterday that, himself and all his Commissioners would not resign their positions and they would continue in with the job of conducting free, fair, credible and transparent elections. Addressing members of the press and elections observers to update them about the activities of …

𝐁𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁. 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐲. Justice Alhaji Momoh Jah Stevens, a Court of Appeal Judge, sitting as High Court Judge in Freetown has acquitted and discharged two accused persons Gbessay Kargbo and Amadu Bailor Jalloh ‘Alias Network’ of one count charge of murder. They were discharged on a not guilty verdict delivered by a twelve-man jury panel, acting as Judges of …

Addressing a press conference at the New Brookfields Hotel in Freetown yesterday, the APC Presidential candidate Dr. Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara called on the Chief Electoral Commissioner and Chairman of ECSL (Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone) and all ECSL Commissioners to resign within 72 hours to make way for the 24th June elections to be conducted by a new outfit …