By Alpha Abu
The Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL) has commenced public education on the new Leone currencies that are soon to be circulated in the country. A float parade began from the bank’s headquarters in downtown Freetown, with a truck providing electronic visual display of the various new notes, accompanied by educative messages.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
The Kenema City and District councils together with the District Health Management Team and with support from the Integrated Health Project Administration Unit (IHPAU) have engaged chiefdom authorities in nine chiefdoms in the Kenema district on covid-19 vaccination activities.
Niawa, Dodo, Malegohun, Lower Bambara, Wandor, Gorama Mende, Nomo, Koya, Kandu- Leppiama, and Tunkia are the chiefdoms targeted for the first round. The remaining chiefdoms were captured on the second day of the community engagement.
By Ibrahim Barrie
Life by Design’s Useful Hands Vocational Institute has on Saturday 19th March 2022 certified 58 students who had gone through the Technical Vocational Training of ultimate entrepreneurial and leaders’ skills to create self-employment and make them active leaders in their different professional spaces.
By Abass Jalloh
The Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) together with various partners will host a three-day National Health Summit and Recognition Award at the Bintumani Conference Centre in Freetown in early April. The event to highlight the transformation of the healthcare delivery systems in the country will commence at the Bintumani Conference Centre in Freetown on the 7th of April 2022.
By Newman Anthony Levey
A former Member of Parliament from Bo district has unveiled his “10 point plan to make Bo city a better place”. Speaking at a media cocktail in Bo, Hon Sualiho Koroma said he would work to “extend the colonial boundaries of Bo City to accommodate the current growth and development trajectory, improve revenue generation through the use of data and technology, promote a green environment and sustainable growth in specific areas including waste management and pollution control and climate change mitigation”.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
A coalition of Civil Society Organizations, known as the National Consortium on Public Accountability and their partners say their investigations have revealed that Rokel Commercial Bank is “grossly divided amongst two factions along political lines” and between the old folks and the new staff which if not immediately settled by the Board of Directors and the government “will have the tendency to wreck that noble revenue generating entity”.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
As the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL) boss recently announced dates for the 2023 General Elections, major political parties in Sierra Leone are bracing up to ensure that they conduct both their lower level and national delegates conferences before the campaign period can be officially declared.
The Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) in turn is actively working towards ensuring that standards are set on which political parties to abide by, before going into the 2023 General Elections.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
