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June 2013

Freetown, (SLENA) - The Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Dr Khelfala Marah (in photo) on Tuesday 11th June 2013 held a coordination meeting on Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) at his ministry’s Conference

Daru, (SLENA) - The Director General Sierra Leone Roads Authority, Munda Rogers has disclosed that the new Daru Bridge will be one of the best within the sub-region. (Photo: Old Daru bridge) He made this statement

Moyamba, (SLENA) - In a bid to achieve President Koroma’s agenda for prosperity on infrastructural development, Works, Housing and Infrastructure, Minister Alimamy P. Koroma last week joined Members of Parliament on Works Oversight Committee on

Port Loko, (SLENA) - The Evangelical Institute of Technology in Polo Loko is a beneficiary of a consignment of teaching and learning materials estimated at millions of leones. The consignment which comprised of computers, classroom administrative

An organization called Women Timap has revealed plans to detain President Koroma at State House if he does not accept running for a third term. This was disclosed by the president of the organization, Mary Hannah

Monday June 17, a boat loaded with illicitly mined Zircon sand from Tisana and Mobureh in Moyamba District reportedly landed at the Tombo wharf, escorted by a Mines Warden called Mr. Feika, the Section Chief

British Airways is increasing its West African schedule and will soon be adding a fourth weekly flight to Sierra Leone and Liberia. The announcement comes just nine months after the airline started operating on the routes

Information reaching this medium reveals that disgruntled workers of the SSGI Security Agency have threatened to go on strike for deplorable conditions of service. Our sources reveal that the workers are aggrieved over the meager salaries

London Mining Company on Friday 13th June donated medical items to the Lunsar Health Clinic in promoting good health for the Lunsar people. Speaking at the handing over ceremony of the items, community relations and resettlement

Airtel organised a promotion for its retailers of which retailers must sell ten thousand units per month. On Saturday 15th June Zonal Manager of Makeni Abdulai Dizo Kamara made the first draw at the lorry park

On Thursday June 13th CSO representatives from across Sierra Leone joined senior Government officials and leading non-state actors for the National CSO Forum held in Freetown. Hosted by ENCISS at the British Council’s Tower Hill complex,

The Gbalamuya Customs Post in Kambia has raised Le5 Billion as revenue generated for the state from January to the end of May this year. This information was relayed to journalists by the Collector, Sigismond Wilkinson,

Sierra Leone, Monday June 17th, joined other countries in Africa to commemorate the Day of the African Child in memory of the several innocent African children massacred in Soweto, South Africa in 1976.  The theme

United Nations Secretary General’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura (right, in photo)  has said Sexual violence in conflict is a crime with a long and infamous history, a crime that

When Washington, DC based, Sierra Leonean researcher, Professor Abdul Karim Bangura delivers the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Distinguished Public Lecture Thursday at 10 am in the Main Auditorium, he will strive to establish a correlation