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October 2015

The Office of the Wife of the Vice President in collaboration of the Ministry of Education Science and Technology (MEST) and the Ministry of Social Welfare Gender and Children’s Affairs, have observed the International Day

The data collection institution, Statistics Sierra Leone (SSL) has presented their 2016-2018 strategic plan to the budget discussion committees. The power point presentation was performed by the SSL Director of Finance, Administration and Human Resources, Mr.

The Ministry of Education Science and Technology (MEST) has received a boost with the handing over of computers, and office equipments worth more than two hundred thousand dollars USD $ 200,000 to enable the setting

BERLIN, Germany, 12 October 2015/ --  Control Risks, the global business risk consultancy, today publishes its annual survey of business attitudes to corruption, comprising interviews with 824 companies worldwide. Corruption is still a major cost to

UNICEF announce new education initiative for 3,000 teenage pregnant girls FREETOWN, 11 October 2015 – The wider impacts of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone will be felt for many years – whether for the families of

Girls Not Brides urges governments to implement the new global target to end child marriage they committed to at the United Nations Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage calls on governments

My apt attention for newspaper publications was drawn to an article written by a colleague journalist, Anthony B. Conteh, aka Tony Bee, a Sierra Leonean based in Sydney, Australia, published Tuesday 6th October, on Patriotic Vanguard

Paris, 12 October—A new Gender Report compiled by UNESCO’s EFA Global Monitoring Report (GMR) for International Day of the Girl Child, shows that no country in Sub-Saharan Africa has achieved gender parity in both primary

Following the 20th Report of the Committee on Appointments and the Public Service, the Parliament of Sierra Leone has on the 08th October, 2015 ratified eight presidential nominees to serve in various high offices of

In a recent press briefing at the conference room of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), it was disclosed that the Neglected Tropical Disease Program of the Ministry of Health in Sierra Leone through

A final year university student, Tamba Bayoh, Aka Godman, who is pursuing BSC Honors in Financial Services at the Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM), has exhibited his natural gift in music by composing

Decision makers in the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) party stalwarts have presented to constituents in 107 the winner of the symbol to contest the forthcoming Bye-election slated for November this year.  Deputy Speaker of

Sierra Leonean Women, according to reliable sources were on the 8th of October this year where they were encouraged to make meaningful contributions in to the ongoing constitutional Review Process as a bid to empower

Many flood victims have showered praises on the National Revenue Authority, NRA, for coming to their rescue at the right time when they are in direst need after being devastated by the historic September 16

As part of main streaming the media that promoter agricultural productivity in sierra Leone, it has been disclosed to this press that the Ministry of Agriculture forestry and food security (MAFFS) through the International Fund