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In its bid to spread the Vitafoam brand to all parts of the West African sub region, Nigerian foam manufacturer, Vitafoam Nigeria Plc, has partnered the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to construct a new factory in Sierra Leone . According to the out-going Chairman of the company, Samuel Bolarinde, full-scale production in Sierra-Leone is expected […]

Michael S. Owen, United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone (photo), has disclosed plans to bring a major US hip hop artist to the country for a major musical concert. The ambassador, who was speaking at his residence in Signal Hill during a roundtable meeting recently with members of the press, said that a schedule concert […]

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Information and Communications, Hon. Alhaji Alpha B.S Kanu on Wednesday 27th February, 2013 informed mobile industry professionals, operators and regulators from across the globe that the electromagnetic spectrum being a scarce natural resource has the potential to increase a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in much the same way as other […]

Kei Kamara evidently has a nice line in light self-deprecation. One evening last year, in the Midwest American city of Kansas City, the footballer took up a microphone to address an audience of locals, and announced, as if it were the Oscars: “It was a pleasure working with George Clooney and Denzel Washington on this […]

The Deputy Minister of Social Welfare Gender and Children’s Affairs, Mustapha Bai Attila (photo) on Tuesday, 26th February, 2013 paid an inspirational and spirited visit to the School for the Blind at Wilkinson Road, Freetown. The Minister made an on the spot visit to every classroom while classes were in session and later assembled and engaged […]

An African Development Bank team composed of experts from the Energy, Environment and Climate Change Department (ONEC) and the Sierra Leone Field Office (SLFO) completed its second green growth mission to Sierra Leone from February 4 to 8, 2013. The objective of the mission was to work further with Government counterparts on mainstreaming green growth […]

Bedford Park area resident Sara Dunkley knows teens and youth in Canada are lucky to have an easily accessible education system. Through her organization, the Beautiful World Canada Foundation, she aims to bring those same benefits to those in countries where that type of education can be out of reach for many. Beautiful World Canada […]

When Norwich City striker Kei Kamara bagged his first goal for the club this weekend against Everton he became the first Sierra Leone national to do so in the Premier League. Can you name the players for the other 87 nationalities to have a Premier League goal-scorer? In December Gael Bigirimana scored the third goal […]

Shares in Sula Iron and Gold (SULA) jumped more than 5% on news that that channel sampling had confirmed the presence of high-grade iron mineralisation at the company’s wholly-owned iron and gold exploration licence in Sierra Leone. High-grade assay results were returned from two channel samples collected in the Area 1 target zone of the licence, located […]

FREETOWN: The chinese government has granted about 30 million US dollars to Sierra Leone for the western African nation’s peace construction when Jiang Weixin, the Special Envoy of Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma. Jiang, also the Chinese Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction, arrived in Freetown Thursday morning to […]