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April 2017

At a ceremony held at the Bawbaw and No. 2 community football fields on Monday 24th April 2017, Patrick Jumu Bantamoi a Sierra Leonean footballer based in Finland in collaboration with DHL International donated several football

It was on 27th April 1961 when Sierra Leone finally became an independent state after more than 100 years of Colonial Rule.  (Photo: Elkass Sannoh, author) Indeed independence was achieved with one VOICE and in Unity despite

On this day of our country’s independence, STOP IT-Sierra Leone congratulates Sierra Leone on turning 56 years on Thursday 27th April, 2017. In respect thereof celebrating our darling birthday, we hereby present these quotes as we

As the number of Tuberculosis  cases  increases  due to negligence of assumptive patients to  respond to free treatment administered  at the Direct Observer  treatments (DOTs) Centers  across the country, the National Leprosy and TB Control

A team from the Ministry of Political and Public Affairs headed by Hon. Nanette Thomas and a civil society representative from the Civil Right Coalition, Mr. Alphonso Manley has on yesterday Tuesday 25th April 2017

A UKaid funded project; ‘Girls’ Education Challenge’ (GEC) implemented by Plan International Sierra Leone and consortium of implementing partners has ended its events in the five (5) districts in the Country. This was disclosed on 20th

The National Council of Pilgrims-Sierra Leone (NCP-SL) has ended its three days first annual in-house convention  at the institution’s head office on 29’ Personage Street, Shell Old Road Kissy Freetown 21st-23rd April 2017.  (Photo: (l-r)

Popular APC  Parliamentary  aspirant in constituency 114, Calaba/Wellington, Dr. Umpha Sorie G. Koroma and Friends  past Easter Monday joined members of the Masquerade devil, ‘Sea Marble’ in Calaba Town to celebrate this year’s Easter celebrations. Dr.

Various development partners including Usman Boie Kamara Foundation (UBKF African Diaspora Coordinating Office (ADCO), African Women’s Cancer Awareness Association, (AWCAA) and the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS) have embarked on a Volunteer Medical and

As the raining season approaches, Sierra Leone Street Children around the country are worried who among them will be able to cope with the heavy down pour of rain this year. Many of them will start

The harbinger of the rain blasted it's trumpet yesterday in Freetown to announce the start of the rainy season next month! The whole announcement lasted for only 30 minutes when an avalanche of garbage descended on

Acting Chairman of the Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Agriculture Forestry and Food Security (MAFFS), Hon. Aaron Aruna Koroma, representing Constituency 062, Yoni Chiefdom in Tonkolili District, has recently ended a bilateral agricultural relationship meeting between

Kadija Koroma aka Dija Kay who has becomes a shining star in the Sierra Leone Movie Industry by taking the skill to an international stage was attending the Benevolent Islamic Secondary School (BISS) in Makeni. 

Indigenes of Samu Chiefdom, Ward 136, Constituency 041 in the Kambia District, have cautioned political aspirants to be accountable when voted into office as the district has suffered for so long from maladministration.  (Photo: Councilor

Accra, Ghana – In 2015, the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) championed a youth empowerment programme, the Civil Society Leadership Institute (CSLI), designed to strengthen leadership thinking and practice in West Africa. The programme