His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has formally launched the National Electrification Plan Digital Platform at a high-level annual ceremony, to increase clean energy supply nationwide. He urged the two-day roundtable deliberations to address the issues of supply, availability, reliability, affordability, financing, and investment in the energy sector, pointing to a few critical discussion points including financing of the …

The Criminal Investigations Department of the Sierra Leone Police are currently investigating the top management of Orange Sierra Leone for obstructing the course of justice by refusing to cooperate with the special investigating committee set up by the Government of Sierra Leone in the aftermath of the 10th August violent insurrection. Police sources have confirmed that Orange SL is refusing …

The Sierra Leone Bar Association has in a letter addressed to the Managing Director of Rokel Commercial Bank accused him and the bank he heads of institutional bullying and workplace intimidation. According to the Bar Association letter, three of their members who work for the bank are victims of institutional bullying, workplace intimidation and sexual harassment. The three victims are …

𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚. It is very sad that a leader of a political party does not know the criteria that ECSL Registration Officers use to register eligible voters in the ongoing voter registration exercise. Yesterday, the leader of the defunct “Unity Party”, the chatterbox Femi Claudius Cole was all over social media claiming that, ECSL Registration Officers in an obscure …

Rokel Commercial Bank, formerly Barclays Bank, was among the best and biggest banks in Sierra Leone in terms of operations and corporate governance. The three-man management committee instituted by the Tripartite Committee (The Bank of Sierra Leone, the Ministry of Finance and the National Commission for Privatization) headed by an honorable gentleman, Mr. John Dudley Okrafo-Smart (a Chartered Accountant) left …

𝐁𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐡. The equipment imported by a Ghanaian road construction company for the Kpetema-Mattru Jong road in the Bonthe district has been relocated from the Queen Elizabeth Quay II in Freetown to the site in Mattru Jong in Pujehun to start work in earnest. Maripoma Enterprises Limited which won the competitive bid a few months ago, imported equipment worth …

𝐁𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁. 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐲. The Judiciary of Sierra Leone has commenced a three- day judicial recess for training of Court Registrars on the Management and Administration of Court Cases. The three-day judicial recess will hold from the 27th, 28th and 29th September, 2022 at main Law Court Building, Siaka Stevens Street in Freetown. According to a notice from the Office …

𝐁𝐲 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐢. The Sierra Leone People’s Party Southern Region Chairman, Alhaji Kanja Sesay, has told Muslim religious leaders in the South that the voter registration exercise was something they should take seriously, urging them to use their platforms in their various mosques to educate their congregation on the process. He commended the Imams for honouring him as Father of …

𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊, 𝟐𝟏𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐. Excellency, Csaba Kőrösi, President of the General Assembly; Excellency, António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations; Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, Distinguished Delegates, Let me commend the President of the 76th session of the General Assembly, H.E. Mr. Abdulla Shahid, for his sustained efforts in returning the General Assembly to its pre-pandemic work pace …

Phase Two of the voter registration exercise commenced across the country yesterday morning. Turnout at several registration centres in Bombali district was low, according to ECSL Registration Officers interviewed in and around Makeni and Kamabia. This is mainly due to the huge turnout during the first phase of the exercise. Several voter registration centres visited yesterday in Makeni City were …