On February 17 2022, US ambassador to Sierra Leone David Reimer presented a grant from the World Monuments Fund to the government of Sierra Leone to begin restoration of the old Fourah Bay College building at Cline Town in Freetown. On hand to recei...

PV Staff Canada has condemned in the strongest possible terms what it describes as Russia's egregious attack on Ukraine. A statement from the office of the Prime Minister states that the Russian unprovoked actions are another clear and further viol...

GE Healthcare and Kenya-based startup Afya Rekod have announced a strategic collaboration that seeks to transform care delivery through improved access to personal health data in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. The partnership will give patients a...

Statement by the Prime Minister on Russia's attack on Ukraine February 23, 2022 Ottawa, Ontario The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement condemning Russia's attack on Ukraine: “Canada condemns in the strongest po...

Commentary The Coup that Destroyed Ghana and Africa's Destiny By Charles Quist-Adade, PhD Fifty-Six years ago today, February 24, 1966, the Government of the Ghana led by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown by a bloody coup d'état. The coup, led by...

Bridging the gender inequality gap from the grassroots “When you want to serve your people and society to contribute to development, you are given negative names”, Gladys Ramatu Bawa, a retired Teacher in the Sagnarigu Municipal Assembly in the...

By Emmanuel Clarke and Isaac Vah Tukpah Jr., USA Continued from last publication Chapter 8 The 1979 Rice Riot and the 1980 Coup Social agitators like Gabriel Baccus Mathews, Amos Sawyer, Dew Twan-Wleh Mayson and many others, introduced violence i...

The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Ambassador Tamba Lamina, has during the publication of the administrative inquiry report into the management of the Freetown City Council, ordered the Mayor's Delivery Unit (MDU) at Freetown Ci...

On Friday, a group of Aid Pioneers made their way on a flight to Sierra Leone, where they'll be spending the next 10 days. The purpose of the trip is multi-faceted: Aid Pioneers aim to get to know the country and its inhabitants better, in order to...

By Our Reporter President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone on Sunday February 20 crowned Greg Meeks, the leader of a US Congressional delegation to Sierra Leone that arrived in the country on Saturday. Meeks is a New York congressman but hailed fr...