President Julius Maada Bio has told Sierra Leonean medical students in Kenya to return home. The president made the call during an official visit to the East African country.
He urged them to be ambassadors in their host country, highlighting the importance of education in transforming very facet of the Sierra Leonean society.
By Politico staff writer
The American International University in West Africa has conferred the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters on the First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone in recognition of her outstanding humanitarian and philanthropic interventions across the globe.
This recognition was bestowed on Fatima Maada Bio at an auspicious awards ceremony in the Gambia on Saturday June 4 2022.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
Commissioning electricity through a company Africo Power Gen in Pendembu and Bunumbu towns both in Kailahun district, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Energy has described electricity as a major source of economic development in rural areas.
Addressing the people in those areas, Dr. Eldred Tunde Taylor said access to electricity supply was a manifesto commitment by the current government, thereby ensuring the ministry prioritizes energy supply not only to urban cities but rural communities as well.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
Days after the release of the controversial provisional result of the 2021 Mid-Term Housing and Population Census, the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL) has in a letter requested for the provisional population figures per district and the provisional population figures per council/localities for action.
This according to the letter addressed to the Statistician-General of Statistics Sierra Leone on the 2nd of June, 2022 is to help the commission in the review of electoral boundaries.
Tunisian president has according to a report by Television Station France 24 sacked 57 judges on Wednesday, accusing them of corruption and protecting terrorists in a purge of the judiciary that comes as he seeks to remake the political system after consolidating one-man rule.
In a televised address President Kais Saied said he had “given opportunity after opportunity and warning after warning to the judiciary to purify itself”. Hours later the official gazette published a decree announcing the dismissals.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
The provisional result of the just-concluded midterm census shows that the population of Sierra Leone increased by four hundred and forty-nine thousand, five hundred twenty-eight (449,528) 6 percent more, from the last data recorded in 2015.
By Nasratu Kargbo
On the final day of the debate on President Bio’s recent speech to open this session of parliament, opposition MPs attacked the Proportional Representation system because, according to them, it makes political parties more powerful than the people. They argued that the PR system “does not give the citizens the opportunity to choose their parliamentary representatives directly”.
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