The global trend amidst multiple crises is for countries to elevate revenue mobilization efforts through reforms and legislative changes to achieve at least 18% of GDP to be able to pay for basic services of Government. The current global undeniable multiple crises include cost of food crisis, cost of fertilizer crisis, debt overhang crisis where 60% of the 74 low-income …

The life of the Fifth Parliament of the Second Republic of Sierra Leone is expected to end on Tuesday, 25th April, 2023. His Excellency The President, Dr Julius Maada Bio is expected to officially dissolve the current Parliament on 25th April, 2023. The current Members of Parliament were elected on a constituency basis except for the Paramount Chief Members of …

𝐁𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁. 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐲. In his objection at yesterday’s hearing in the alleged New York Chancery corruption trial, Lawyer Africanus Sorie Sesay said the video recording of the locus visit to New York has been used to ridicule the forth accused, Dr. Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara, the June 24 Presidential candidate of the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC). At …

The Ministry of Finance, in collaboration with the National Council for Civic Education and Democracy (NACCED), Oxford Policy Management (OPM), and Non-state-actors yesterday officially launched the FY 2023 Citizen’s Budget, which is a simplified version of the FY2023 National Budget in the form of a video skit and a reader-friendly pamphlet, at the Ministry of Finance Conference Hall in Freetown. …

𝐁𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁. 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐲. “I cannot fault you for your absence at the Locus visit at the Sierra Leone Mission Chancery Building in New York conducted on the 23rd and 24th March, 2023, and I will not hold you for contempt due to your conduct since the inception of the matter; but whatever might have been the cause, I advise …

His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio today commenced a three-day working tour of chiefdoms in the Pujehun District as part of his nationwide engagements with local authorities, women and young people on the need for citizens’ participation in national development and peaceful elections. At Masa Town, in the Kpaka Chiefdom, he said he was happy to have been the …

𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚. One anti-Bio newspaper recently published a screaming headline claiming that, based on provisional voter registration figures released by one faction of the APC their Presidential candidate (Dr. Samura Kamara) had won the June 24, 2023 Presidential elections. This claim is at best preposterous. Even their figures do not add up. Since the APC lost power in April …

In order to effectively manage the affairs of the Sierra Leone Police, the Inspector General of Police, William Fayia Sellu has made some changes in the postings of some senior officers. AIG Kapr Saidu Kamara of Professional Standard PHQ goes as Training Director PHQ, AIG Aiah Edward Samadia REGPOL East is now Director Professional Standard PHQ, AIG Brima Kanneh Director …

Following serious allegations of harassment of and extortion from some members of the Indian business community in Liberia, the Indian Government wasted no time to terminate the appointment of Upjit Singh Sachdeva (Jetty) as Honorary Consul General of India in Monrovia, Liberia. Upjit Singh Sachdeva (Jetty) was accused of using his influence in the Liberian government of President George Weah …

𝐁𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫. As part of their CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility), the Lithium Leone Afric Metals Mining Company on Sunday 26th March, 2023, provided salary for one hundred and twenty teachers and donated five hundred bags of rice to every household in Ngowahun Chiefdom, Bombali District. This donation benefits teachers and residents from Lawgbaray village, Mansongbo, Makatatay, Tambima, Mayata …