His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has completed a four-day working visit to major towns in the Kenema District and inspected the Dodo mini-hydro dam, some 380 km from Freetown and 69 km from the headquarter town of Kenema. Dodo, a 6 MW run-of-the-river hydropower plant, operated by the Bo-Kenema Power Station, is functional and is a part of …

His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has commissioned a cocoa processing factory of Capitol Foods in Tissor Village, making it the first in the country, and creating employment for the local people of that community. Capitol Foods is a fruit and food processing company, currently developing the first natural fruit processing and bottling company in the country with a …

His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has inaugurated the Eastern Technical University Court in Kenema and decorated Dr Julius Fofana Sandi as its first Chancellor, in fulfillment of a promise to cease being a Chancellor of the Universities. Paramount Chief of Nongowa Chiefdom, PC Sadiq Mattoe Kapuwa IV, welcomed the President and his entourage and expressed happiness for the …

23 OCTOBER 2021 The Honourable Speaker of Parliament, The Chief Minister and Ministers of Government, Honourable Members of Parliament, Members of the Diplomatic and Consular Corps Your Worship, the Mayor of Kenema City, Our Revered Traditional Rulers and Community Leaders, Chairman and Members of the Tertiary Education Commission, Members of Court, Academic and Administrative Staff of the Eastern Technical University, …

Sources at the Civil Aviation Authority have described the so-called Bo Airport Project as a sham spearheaded by a group of deceitful and shameless criminals. According to the Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority, Moses Tiffa, the so-called Bo Airport project is illegal, because, neither the Civil Aviation Authority nor the Ministry of Transport and Aviation is aware of …

By Mohamed Fofanah. Bollore Transport and Logistics has awarded scholarships to thirty deserving students from various higher institutions of learning in Sierra Leone, with the Moa, and Seaside Wharf communities where the Freetown Terminal operates, getting fifteen beneficiaries each. The students are in various years of studies in various universities and colleges in Sierra Leone including Fourah Bay College (FBC), …

By Jane B. Mansaray. Lawyers representing the All People’s Congress Party (APC), the party Chairman and Leader, former President Ernest Bai Koroma and Secretary General Osman Foday Yansaneh have objected to Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden’s affidavit of joining Alfred Peter Conteh in his earlier petition matter before Justice Adrian Fisher with regards to the illegality of the executive. In their …

By Sylvester Samba.                                                                                                              The change of name from Kingho Investment Company to Leone Rock Metal Group was formally announced to pressmen on Tuesday 19th October, 2021. According to a press release issued to journalists, Kingho Investment Company was first established in Sierra Leone in July 2010, adding that the Company has strived over the years in transforming to a more …

The Minister of Health and Sanitation and the Chief Medical Officer are at each other’s throats over what has been described as supremacy of administrative authority in the Ministry. In a leaked letter dated 12th October, 2021, the Chief Medical Officer, Rev. Canon Dr. Thomas T. Samba insisted that the postings done on the 6th October, 2021 “were extensively consultative”. …

The Minister of Health and Sanitation, Dr. Austin Demby has demonstrated that he is the political head of the Ministry by rescinding postings of Medical Doctors done without his approval. According to reliable sources, before leaving for New York as part of the President’s official delegation to the UNGA (United Nations General Assembly), Dr. Demby did advice his two deputies …