We have closely followed the public statement issued by the authorities/Government indicating that all passengers departing and arriving at the Freetown International Airport with effect from 1st July, 2022 are required to pay a security fee of US$25 to enable authorities ensure safety of passengers at the Airport and the country through a cut edge and globally recognized border control …

𝐁𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁. 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐲. In line with President Julius Maada Bio’s vision for infrastructure transformation, the Road Maintenance Fund Administration (RMFA) yesterday officially handed over a total of twenty brand new motorbikes to each Local Council. The purpose of the motorbikes is to supervise, monitor and evaluate roads construction work activities especially in far to reach terrains for effective and …

By Mohamed Fofanah. The National Revenue Authority (NRA) yesterday engaged the different Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) to introduce an automated tax collection system for Non-Tax Revenue (NTR) services including fees for birth, death, and marriage certificates, and court fines. This move according to the NRA is to automate the non-tax revenue collection system to resolve payment verification challenges and …

The Chancellor of Njala University, Professor Sahr Moses Gevao on Monday 27th June 2022 appointed a substantive Vice-Chancellor and Principal for Njala University in the person of Professor Bashiru Mohamed Koroma. Professor Bashiru M. Koroma will start work effective 1st September 2022 and will serve for three years. Professor Bashiru Koroma until his appointment was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Njala Campus …

If the Bill entitled “The National Electronic Communication Act, 2021” is enacted by Parliament and signed into law by the President, the National Telecommunications Commission (NATCOM) would be transformed into the National Electronic Communications Authority. The current Board of Commissioners, Management and Staff of NATCOM will remain in office when the new Act comes into force. Significant changes in revenue …

Following the establishment of the 21-man APC Interim leadership committee, some young, exuberant and inexperienced politicians have emerged to assume leadership roles in the party. Some of them are bent on institutionalizing thuggery and violence in the body politic of the country. They forget to realise that the days of politics of gangsterism have been relegated to the dustbin of …

The National Elections Watch (NEW) is now being operated by only one woman, according to some members of the coalition. They have called on the feckless leadership of the coalition to be transparent and accountable in the use of donor funds received for its activities. Following the coalition’s outburst in its politically- motivated statement of 2nd June, 2022, some prominent …

𝐁𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁. 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐲. Assistant Director in the Foreign Division of the Bank of Sierra Leone, Mr. Albert Foday Boima has made an appearance before Justice Adrian Fisher to testify in the alleged corruption matter between the State against the former 2018 Presidential Flagbearer of the main Opposition All Peoples Congress (APC), Dr. Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara and four other …

𝐁𝐲: 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐢.                                                                                                                            The Deputy Minister of Energy, Dr. Eldred Taylor, has called on the Commandant at the Armed Forces Training Centre at Benguema and inspected the site marked out for the construction of a 33/11KV primary substation which he described as one of the biggest energy projects in the western rural district. Dr. Taylor informed Colonel Hassan Sulaiman …

His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has addressed lawmakers from across Africa, meeting as a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, CPA, and used the occasion to congratulate Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom on her Platinum Jubilee. “I must add that the strengths of our democracies in the Commonwealth have endured, thanks to the role of Parliaments. You debate, modify, …