Sierra Leone’s Minister of Energy, Alhaji Kanja Sesay, has continued his aggressive and impressive pursuit of the realization of the energy dreams of President Julius Maada Bio by facilitating the delivery of two power transformers and a huge quantity of volt-switch gear or breakers to the people of Kono district. The move is consistent with the immediate plans of the …

Stakeholders of Mandu Chiefdom in Kailahun District have commended the Government of President Dr Julius Maada Bio for awarding scholarships to three descendants of their Chiefdom to perform the 2022 Hajj in Saudi Arabia. Natives and descendants from the Chiefdom on Friday, July 29, 2022 received the pilgrims at Mobai Junction and escorted them with fanfare to the Mandu Central …

𝐁𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁. 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐲 & 𝐇𝐚𝐣𝐚 𝐀𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐚 𝐊𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐚. Several Presidential nominees, including the Board Chairman of the National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA), Mr. Sorie Fofana, Mr. William Fayia Sellu who is the proposed Inspector General of the Sierra Leone Police, proposed Director General Correctional Services and Deputy Director, proposed Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations (Political Division) Ngor Amara …

AIG William Fayia Sellu, former Director of Crimes Intelligent Services has been appointed as the new Inspector General of the Sierra Leone Police. Prior to his new appointment, AIG Fayia Sellu served in many capacities in the police force. William Fayia Sellu joined the Sierra Leone Police in 1993 as a Cadet Officer just after graduating from the Njala University …

One of the most organised and vibrant chapters of the SLPP, the Washington DC Metro Chapter, headed by the dynamic Mrs Fatmata Dausy Wurie on Sunday, July 24, 2022 organised a welcome dinner party in honour of HE Ambassador Alhaji Brima Elvis Koroma (Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Senegal) who is currently on a private visit to the United States of …

𝑩𝒚 𝑱𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝑯𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒍𝒐 𝑲𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒖.   Throngs of SLPP party supporters, party die-hards, friends and relatives from across the country on Saturday, July 23rd graced the heroic entering of Alhaji Kanja Ibrahim Sesay to the country’s second city, Bo. Ushered in the city along the principal streets of Bo from the Falla Checkpoint with over 500 fleet of automobiles and Motorbikes …

𝐁𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁. 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐲. The Tribunal that was set up by the Government of Sierra Leone to look into the activities of the suspended Auditor-General of Audit Service Sierra Leone, Mrs Lara Taylor Pearce and her Deputy, Tamba Momoh has been adjourned to October, following a closed-door consultative meeting involving the three Judges. The adjournment was pronounced by David Farma, …

The Ministry of Finance has commenced engagements with authorities as part of an effort to reconstitute the District Oversight Committees in de-amalgamated chiefdoms in the eastern region of the country and ensure prudent fiscal discipline among local authorities. Speaking during a meeting with the newly reconstituted District Oversight Committees, traditional leaders in the Kailahun District, the Principal Deputy Financial Secretary, …

𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐲𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐚.   The country’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), in collaboration with Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Stakeholders on Monday 25th July, 2022, commenced a five- day workshop on the second National Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment. The event which took place at the New Brookfields Hotel in Freetown is financially and technically …

The embattled Managing Director of the Rokel Commercial Bank, Dr Walton E. Gilpin, is to face disciplinary action for sexual harassment and workplace intimidation, according to a leaked legal opinion on a special investigation committee report submitted to the Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone, Prof. Kelfala Murana Kallon on 23rd June, 2022. The report seriously indicted the Rokel …