By Politico staff writer
Sierra Leone’s Chief Minister, Jacob Jusu Saffa has commended the oil marketing company, All Petroleum Product (APP) for investing “huge” capital in the country’s Oil and Gas industry.
He made this commendation during a conducted tour of the Kissy Oil Refinery in Freetown together with the Petroleum Regulatory Agency (PRA) Executive Chairman, Dr. Brima Baluwa Koroma, and other government ministers on the 19th January 2022.
By Politico staff writer
The Regional Rice Value Chain Project (RRVCP) in its first planting season cultivated 1000 hectares of rice at Tomabum and 500 hectares at both Mambolo and Samu in the south and north of the country, respectively. The Project Coordinator, Abdulai Bun Wai made the disclosure at a meeting of Stakeholders in Bo to discuss plans for the project’s next planting season. It is an ambitious move by the present central government to reduce its overreliance on the importation of rice to the country by private business entities.
By Alpha Abu
The country’s national football team, Leone Stars finally bowed out of the AfCON tournament after a spirited performance in their last group stage match against Equatorial Guinea played at the Omnisport Stadium in Limbe, Cameroon on Thursday 20th January 2022. Pablo Ganet scored what turned out to be the only goal of the match.
By Nasratu Kargbo
Reported fire cases in Sierra Leone increased by 50% in 2021, according to the Chief Fire Officer Nazir Ahmad Kamanda Bongay, doubling the 2020 figures.
Speaking to Politico on Tuesday 19th January 2022, Bongay explained that in the year 2021 the country recorded more than one thousand fire cases, as against some five hundred reported incidents for 2020.
By Saio Marrah
The Public Account Committee (PAC) of parliament, has ordered the Audit Service Sierra Leone to do a special report on the 2019 financial report on the Freetown City Council (FCC) within one month to ascertain why the audit service was constrained in auditing the council’s Transform Freetown Projects.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
The Sierra Leone Correctional Service (SLCS) has received 22 vehicles from the government of Sierra Leone to ameliorate the ‘acute shortage of vehicles’ in most correctional centres in the country.
The category of vehicles received by the SLCS include: three Ambulances, six Pick-up Trucks, two Sports Utility Vehicles and eleven Trucks.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
The Sierra Leone Roads Safety Authority (SLRSA) has prohibited 143 derelict vehicles from transporting goods from the Sierra Leone Ports Authority, quoting section 5 of the Road Traffic Act of 2007. The prohibition exercise was witnessed by executive members of the Sierra Leone Indigenous Transport Owners Association, the Sierra Leone Police, and the Management of the Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
