By Nasratu Kargbo
The Operations and Managing Director of TRIAD Engineering Company Ltd. Alhaji Amadu Sesay has said Sierra Leone has a 1,058,000 (one million and fifty-eight thousand) housing deficit. Sesay made this revelation at a press conference held on the 12th of October 2022.
He said they found out the country was in need of that number of housing units to enable every Sierra Leonean to have a place to dwell after they conducted a survey back in 2016.
By Nasratu Kargbo
People dwelling around the Old Airfield at Hastings have been ordered to vacate the area before the end of this October. The order was issued by the Ministry of Transport and Aviation in a Press release dated 12 October 2022 in which it says it ‘’will take full possession of all such land on Tuesday, 1st November 2022”.
By: AMINATA SAMEENA SESAY
The Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority (SLRSA) has decentralized new driver’s licenses renewals at regional level to accelerate a proper system.
This was disclosed on Thursday 13th October, 2022 at the usual Ministry of Information and Communications Press briefing at Youyi building in Freetown.
By Nasratu Kargbo
The Chairman Council of Paramount Chiefs for Kono District, Bamba Emmanuel Foryoh IV, has expressed hope for a boom in businesses following the turning on of the CLSG electricity in the district.
Speaking to Politico on the 11th of October 2022, a day after President Julius Maada Bio commissioned the Kono CLSG Electricity, Foryoh said it was “welcoming news to the business sectors”.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is said to have recovered the sum of NLE 35,483.62 (thirty-five million, four hundred and eighty-three thousand, sixty-two New Leones from high profile cases they successfully investigated between 2018-2022.
That was revealed by ACC Deputy Commissioner, Augustine Foday Ngobie at the budget hearing organised by the Ministry of Finance in Freetown.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
The Human Resource Management Office (HRMO) during the annual budget hearing in the Ministry of Finance main conference room noted to have recruited more than 2,000 Civil Servants across cadres in all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) for the 2022 Fiscal Year (FY).
By Saio Marrah
The Managing Director of the Sierra Leone Postal Service (SALPOST), Brima Katta, has revealed the institution’s plans to provide different digital services in the country.
Addressing invitees at SALPOST’s headquarters in Freetown on Friday 7th October 2022 to commemorate World Post Day, which fell on Sunday, 9th October, Katta said: “Since I took office, my target operating module has been to offer diversified products and services on a digital platform using our footprint across the country.”
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
