By IPRP Communications Unit.                                                                                    The Chairman of the Independent Procurement Review Panel (IPRP) Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai, said the IPRP was underfunded. He made this disclosure during a one –day Budget Hearing for the Financial Year 2022 at the Ministry of Finance (MOF) Tuesday, 28 September, 2021. He said quotas being allocated in the previous years were ridiculous to run the …

By Jane B. Mansaray.                                                                                                                Sierra Leone Appeal Court Judge, Justice Monfred Momoh Sesay has ordered the Executive Director of the Legal Aid Board to assist a convict, Alpha Umaru Jalloh with food, lodging and transport fare to go back to his country of origin, Guinea. Justice Monfred Momoh Sesay made the order yesterday when delivering sentence on Alpha Umaru Jalloh, …

The Acting Chief Executive Officer of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Mahmoud Bah, has praised Sierra Leone for its unprecedented work in the preparation and development of the MCC Compact and described His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio as a champion in the fight against corruption. Speaking during a bilateral meeting with President Bio, the Acting CEO said that despite …

By Sylvester Samba. The Executive Chairman of Petroleum Regulatory Agency (PRA), Dr. Brima Baluwa Koroma has expressed confidence that his Agency will generate One Trillion Leones for the SLPP government in the coming years. Dr. Koroma made the disclosure during the ongoing Financial Year 2022 budget discussion taking place at the Ministry of Finance, Treasury Building in Freetown. Making his …

Sierra Leone Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, His Excellency Ernest Mbaimba Ndomahina has participated in this year’s Global Conference on Aquaculture recently held in Shanghai. Delivering his statement, Ambassador Ernest M. Ndomahina started by commending stakeholders for successfully hosting the Conference despite current difficult circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic. He went on to say that the Conference …

The “Friends of Hands Off Our Girls Project” in support of the flagship campaign program of the First Lady of Sierra Leone, Madam Fatima Maada Bio has raised an impressive USD$120,000 at an event held at the Wyndham Hotel in College Park, United States of America. The fundraiser was organized by a committee of Sierra Leone diaspora members with American …

The High Commission of Sierra Leone in Nigeria, in collaboration with the ECOWAS Commission on Saturday 26th, September, 2021 organized a send-off ceremony in honor of the outgoing High Commissioner of Sierra Leone to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Solomon Momoh Christopher Gembeh Sr. at the High Commission, located on Plot 308 Diplomatic Drive in Abuja. The ceremony attracted …

By Jane B. Mansaray.                                                                                              The alleged financial defalcation at Dyna Lab Sierra Leone of …

His Excellency Rtd. Brig. Julius Maada Bio and the First Lady, Madam Fatima Maada Bio honored a closed door meeting invitation of the Executive Director of UNAIDS on Thursday 23rd September 2021, at one of the United Nations General Assembly meeting rooms in New York City, U.S.A. The Executive Director of UNAIDS, Madam Winnie Byanyima expressed her delight in meeting …

The Deputy Director Chief in the Office of International Military Cooperation (OIMC) in Beijing, Major General Song Yanchao, has, on behalf of the Chinese Government and the Ministry of National Defense of the People’s Republic of China, officially received the newly posted Military Defense Attaché to the Sierra Leone Embassy in Beijing, Lieutenant Colonel Bai Mandumoi Coomber. Officially welcoming the …