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A Non-Governmental Organization, Craving for Development has pitched a discussion programme called The Ignition Hour. The programme is searching for ten entrepreneurs to tackle sector-disrupting innovation in the Sierra Leone agribusiness ecosystem. On Thursday, the team started to listen to ideas from Sierra Leonean innovators at the Creative Hub Africa, Lumley in Freetown. The Ignition Hour Venture Building Program is a 24-month initiative that will take innovators’ ideas to high-growth and Value companies. In an interview with the CO-Founder and CO-Director of Craving for Development, Aminata Kane, it was disclosed that Ignition was started in 2018 by Craving for Development to support entrepreneurs. This is…
During a meeting organized by LoBDA at the China House, Brookfields in Freetown, the Chairman of the Lower Bambara Chiefdom Descendants Association (LoBDA), Mr Fyeston Bockarie, on Sunday 29th October 2023, disclosed that the LoBDA has requested that, to seek the best interest of the people, the chiefdom should be represented in the Sierra Diamond Mining Company, and that going forward, he wants LoBDA issues to top the news agenda in the country and abroad. According to Mr Fyeston Bockarie, Lower Bambara is a Class A Chiefdom, endowed with rich natural resources, but lamented that it lacked basic services like…
One of the leading insurance companies in the country, Globalrisk Insurance Company (GIC) – SL Ltd is here to stay, adhered to its policies with customers nationwide as it presented over Le 189,426 Million cheques to beneficiaries of the life insurance contracts of deceased customers from January to October 2023 nationwide. The Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director of GIC, MMrPaul Oparah, stated that he is poised to do more to enhance the lives of civil servants who joined the Company so that they can improve their future financial planning and achieve their dreams of living a comfortable life with their families,…
Former Director General of the National Minerals Agency (NMA), Julius Daniel Mattai The current Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources, Julius D. Mattai, and others are to account for Le3,671,342,355.06. (Three billion, six hundred and seventy-one million, three hundred and forty-two thousand, three hundred and fifty-five Leones) generated from Precious Mineral Trading, in respect of the Mining Community Development Fund. According to Auditors, who audited the National Minerals Agency in 2021, they reviewed the documentary analysis submitted by the Mining Cadastre at headquarters and noted that a deduction of 0.75% from the 3% generated from Precious Mineral Trading, in respect…
His Lordship Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards As part of the unprecedented reforms to make the Judiciary of Sierra Leone an envy in the sub-region, the World Justice Rule of Law Index Report has placed Sierra Leone high above Egypt, Nigeria, Liberia, Guinea, Uganda, Ethiopia, Mali, Cameroon, Sudan, Congo, Mozambique, Mauritania and other countries with 18th position among 34 African Countries. In the world, Sierra Leone made an impressive leap ahead of Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela, Russia, Iran, Cambodia, Myanmar, Turkiye, Honduras and Haiti among others. Over the years, the Judiciary of Sierra Leone was not considered in any of the international…
To round off activities marking this year’s 78th Anniversary of the United Nations, members of the UN family in Sierra Leone were engaged last Friday morning in a cleaning exercise of a long stretch of Lumley Beach in Freetown. The UN Resident Coordinator (RC), Babatunde Ahonsi, at the exercise, warned Sierra Leoneans to take care of their natural surroundings. Speaking to the media during the cleaning exercise, he said Sierra Leoneans should inculcate the habit of maintaining proper hygiene by embarking on regular cleaning exercises both at home and in their communities. The RC said the exercise was a productive…
Engagement Plan to Project Affected stakeholders and communities Bo Town, Sierra Leone – On October 24, 2023, the Sierra Leone Agribusiness and Rice Value Chain Support (SLARiS) Project, under the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, successfully concluded a two-day workshop on the Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) and Stakeholder Engagement Plan at the J&E Hotel in Bo City. The workshop aimed to disclose the draft GRM and SEP instruments to participants and solicit their input to ensure that it is an effective channel for addressing concerns at various levels and promoting ownership of the instruments. In his opening remarks, Mr.…
The Africell Impact Foundation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education and in partnership with the London School of Economics and Political Science, has organized a one-day training event aimed at enhancing the skills and knowledge of 30 selected students and faculty members from six universities across Sierra Leone. The training, with a focus on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, took place on Wednesday, October 25, 2023, at the Multi-Purpose Hall on Fourah Bay College Campus in Freetown. In his address, the Deputy Minister of Technical and Higher Education, Sarjoh Aziz-Kamara, commended Africell Impact Foundation for organising the training for Students…
His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has had a frank engagement with executive members of the Sierra Leone Labour Congress (SLLC), where they discussed several issues affecting consumers, workers and citizens. Secretary General, SLLC, Max K. Conteh, expressed appreciation for the efforts by the President to ensure that workers were recognised as a result of reforms in their laws, adding that they had visited to confirm that the country’s labour laws were among some of the best in terms of protecting workers. He said that even though they were the most critical of all the groups in the country,…
His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has engaged the Chairman and Commissioners of the Independent Media Commission (IMC), on post-rep the eal of Part Five of the Public Order Act of 1965, which criminalised free speech and stifled professional journalism in Sierra Leone. The media regulators used the platform to update the President on general progress in the media while confirming that because of the repeal, 90 per cent of aggrieved members of the public now turn to the Commission with their complaints against the media and members of the press, instead of seeking redress in court. The Chairman, Dr…