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The Country’s leading GSM operator, Airtel-Sierra Leone, on Tuesday 13 May 2014 launched its fourth season of Africa’s largest youth football initiative ‘Airtel Rising Stars’ with the mission to take football to all the 149 chiefdoms in the country. In his statement during a well-attended ceremony chaired by Airtel’s June-Rose Johnson at the company headquarter […]

York is a distinctly Krio village with a rich history though the village also comprises of various other tribes. Prior to the arrival of the liberated slaves, the Sherbro were settled in the area and the village as called Momimi. York village is over 200 years old, predominantly Christian with old churches and beautiful layout […]

BAM International and its South African joint-venture partner Stefanutti Stocks have been awarded the contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a petroleum jetty at the Kissy Oil Terminal of Freetown in Sierra Leone. It will take the joint venture approximately one year to design and complete the project for PetroJetty Ltd. https://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com/spip.php?article7744

The Sierra Leone High Commission in Nigeria on Friday April 25 th., Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th. Celebrated its 53rd Independence Anniversary. Nigeria and Sierra Leone has a long and close historical ties. Nigeria being the big brother of Africa sacrificed Men, sweat, blood, tears and resources in bringing Peace to our beloved Country, Sierra […]

The Economic Committee of West African States (ECOWAS) Trade Negotiation Capacity Building Project in collaboration with the Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Trade and Industry organized a capacity building workshop on International Trade Negotiation for members of the National Coordinating Committee on Trade (NCCT), Sierra Leone. The five days training workshop which kicked off  Monday 5th […]

Having become a statutory instrument following the President’s assent on the 30th November, the National Revenue Authority (NRA), prior to executing the provisions inherent in the 2013 Finance Act, has begun sensitizing taxpayers across the country on what is in the new Act and how those provisions are going to be handled by the revenue […]

  WALKING the streets of Sierra Leone, Kat Buxton was amazed by the generosity of locals who would invite her into their homes for a meal, despite having very little food for themselves. Now the enthusiastic cook has replicated this generosity in her Porthtowan home by opening it to the public as a pop-up restaurant […]

Complementing its own plantation output, the Goldtree palm oil business supports an extensive agricultural community, buying in fruit from over 5,000 outgrowers. It is working on significantly improving the fruit yields and technical skills of these smallholder farmers while mitigating against environmental risk and dangerous agricultural practices. Goldtree is an ideal example of the sustainable […]

The Maambena Fest Literacy and Cultural Festival founded in 2011 by Usifu Jalloh under the flagship of the Aruna Jalloh foundation is the only festival in Sierra Leone that prides itself in celebrating both literacy and culture on the same platform. For the past three years the festival has been working on the goal of […]

To complement the effort of government in providing quality education to its citizen across the nation, a philanthropist business man known as AMIN A. SKAIKAY (TAS-STORES) in Kenema city has on Sunday 20th April 2014 dished out scholarships worth twenty million Leones (Le20million) to one hundred and seventy (170) school going children in Kenema and […]