The Daily IIJ

Skye Bank Sierra Leone Limited has received a whopping Le15 billion from its parent body in Nigeria, Skye Bank PLC, to enhance its effectiveness and smooth operations. The bank’s Head of Treasury and International Operations, Mahmoud H.M. Koroma, said the injection of the Le15 billion has further restored confidence in customers that the bank was [...]

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  Deputy Minister of Transport and Aviation has inspected the ongoing construction of terminal buildings, jetties and helipad in Kissy, Government Warf, Targrin, Lungi Airport and Aberdeen; works that fall under the Airport Transfer Project, ATP. The $5 million construction work on the five sites which is funded by the Investment Climate Facility for Africa, [...]

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The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces, RSLAF have received three Casspir MK II armoured personnel carriers (APCs) from the Regional Manager of the African Contingent Training Assistance, Lawrence M. Hudnall, as they prepare to deploy a battalion of about 850 to the African Mission in Somalia. Handing over the keys of the carriers, Mr. [...]

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Sierra Leone is on the threshold of rapid growth in development. This year, our gross domestic product, GDP will grow to 50%, said President Ernest Bai Koroma as he opened the country’s first ever conference on development and transformation at the Miatta conference center in Freetown. The president told his audience that Sierra Leone was [...]

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One of the seven political parties that would compete in various categories in the forthcoming general elections, National Democratic Alliance NDA, has called for the immediate cease of the ongoing biometric voter registration by the National Electoral Commission NEC. According to the party’s spokesperson, Chernor M. Bah, barely three days into the 64-day registration process [...]

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Having fulfilled the criteria in the Political Parties Act of 2002, the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) has approved the Citizens Democratic Party (CDP) to contest in the November 17 general elections. Presenting the final certificate of registration to the new party, PPRC Chairman, Justice Samuel Ademosu admonished the CDP’s executive and members to refrain from [...]

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Sierra Leone’s president continues to win laurels both in and out of the country for his exemplary and quality leadership since he took over the nation’s governance following his victory in the 2007 general elections. The latest of such accolades is the Special Recognition Award in Leadership bestowed in him by the All Works of [...]

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As she launches the Arterial Network-Sierra Leone Chapter, Minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs has complained bitterly about how artistes in the country neglect her ministry. Victoria Saidu Kamara told the gathering at the National Museum that it is extremely difficult for her ministry to make a case for artists because they are not united and [...]

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A total of seven hundred and thirty-eight (738) observers are currently witnessing the voter registration exercise across the country on behalf of the National Elections Watch, NEW and the Independent Radio Network, IRN. According to NEW’s Regional Coordinator for Western Area, Marcella Macauley, the registration process will be done in four 15-day phases. She informed [...]

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The Iranian Cultural Chancellor in Freetown has urged Muslims countrywide to be united and love one another in whatever they are doing. Mohamed Reza Ghezel Sofla described people who do or say things to cause disunity among the Muslim community as not true believers of Allah but strategists of Satan. “It is not good for [...]

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