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May 2017

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques on Sunday, 7th May, 2017 held official talks with his Sierra Leonean counterpart at the Al-Salam Palace in Saudi Arabia's commercial and cosmopolitan city of Jeddah. His Majesty King Salman

Founder and CEO of Sierra Leone’s foremost Arts and entertainment newspaper, SaloneJamboree, has appealed for more support for young people in the country.  (Photo: Murtala poses with his award) Murtala Mohamed Kamara said during his acceptance

Sierra Leone’s Ada Yang Going Places Sierra Leonean born painter, cultural artist and fashion designer, Ada Yang who is married to a world renowned Chinese painter and cultural artist is holding an annual Networking Event and

Sierra Leone still remains at a very critical stage of development that requires good leadership at all levels of state administration and management. In this all important endeavor to build a nation we can all

The Freetown City Council which is responsible for sanitation and keeping the city clean which outsourced the service to the MASADA Waste Management Company is in default of payment running to close to two billion

The Minister of Sports, Mr. Ahmed Khanou, has insisted that the planned National Sports Development Conference will go ahead on the 17th and 18 May 2017. It is on record that the Minister of Sports

Former child soldiers from Sierra Leone and Uganda are being used as cheap labour for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new documentary on Al Jazeera. Child Soldiers Reloaded features interviews with several of

Plan international Sierra Leone has concluded a workshop on Comprehensive School Safety on 25th April 2017 at Plan International Sierra Leone Head Office conference hall. The workshop attracted stakeholders from the Ministry of Education Science and

President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma will pay a state visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 6th to  9th May, 2017 as a  guest of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman

The Chairman of the Sierra Leone Sorghum Farmers Association, Mr. Dennis Jusu has called on His Excellency, President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, the government and Members of Parliament to retain the Finance Act 2016. He

Ongoing efforts of the Sierra Leone Government of H.E. President Ernest Koroma, to restore the country away from vestiges of the rebel war, include the safe and professional removal of "unexploded ordinance of war" which

We took off from darkness in Freetown while I was sitting near Alhaji Momodu Koroma in the Kenya Airways flight bound for Nairobi via Accra. From the air, it was visible that Accra is a well

Links 2 an entertainment centre, a hair dressing saloon and a massage parlor was on Sunday 30th April 2017 officially opened by the First Lady Madam Sia Koroma. The Enterprise which is owned by the

My 16-year old son, Idrissa Salam Conteh Jr, is one of two students invited from the TC Williams Senior High School in Alexandria to Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts  to attend a three-day seminar with

Hon. Vice President, Ambassador Dr. Victor Bockarie Foh  Wednesday 3rd May, 2017 visited the Wara Wara Bafodia Chiefdom, Koinadugu District to sympathise with the family and people of Bafodia on the death of their Paramount