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Mrs. Mabel Findlay has passed on
Mrs. Mabel Findlay (photo), who passed away recently, taught Geography at the Albert Academy in Freetown for decades. Thousands of her former students remember her with fondness and gratitude. There will be a vigil at Christ Church, Pademba Road on...


Thanks for sympathy
Thanks for Sympathy (Late Gibril Foday-Musa Laid to Rest) Thank you for thinking of our family during this difficult time. Thank you so much for the condolences expressed in a moment of despair which lifted us from our grief. We truly appreciated...


Sierra Leone: Ministry of Health receives Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant
By Alhaji Njie, Freetown, Sierra Leone I am happy to have provided technical leadership, direction and overall writing as Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) that led to the award of a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) Grand Challenges Plannin...


Freetown: 12 oxygen concentrators for 34 Military Hospital
This month, 12 oxygen concentrators and 12 oximeters arrived at the “34 Military Hospital” in Freetown, Sierra Leone - organized by “Aid Pioneers e.V.” in cooperation with “Apotheker Helfen e.V.” from Germany. Oxygen concentrators are u...


Tonkolili district chairperson released
PV Staff The detained Tonkolili district APC chairperson, Madam Yabome Sesay (seen in old photo) has been released. She was detained at the CID headquarters in Freetown on Wednesday and released yesterday morning, Friday July 15. Her detention ha...


Government of Canada makes significant additional transfers to provinces
As committed to earlier this year, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland (photo), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, today (Thursday July 14) confirmed that the provinces and territories have now received an additional $2.85 billion in fundin...


Constant electricity for Freetown residents
The capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown, home to over two million people has been connected and is now enjoying the much-awaited 24-hour electricity from the CLSG grid. “People are upbeat and there is excitement all over town,” says Freetown resid...


Sierra Leone: District chairperson detained
PV Staff Madam Yabome Sesay, (photo) the Tonkolili district chairperson (APC) based in Magburaka has been invited to CID headquarters in Freetown for questioning and detained. We have not been able to talk to anybody at CID or police headquarters ...


Tribute to late Brother Gibril Foday-Musa
Tribute to late Brother Gibril Foday-Musa By Teddy Foday-Musa (Brother) 2nd July 2022 1. Intro In December 2021 last year, we spent Christmas together in our village – Kandor. We were together at our famous 25th December On-the-Rock Carnival. T...


Verbatim statement from Speaker of Sierra Leone parliament
Announcement by the Speaker at the sitting of 12 July 2022 Honourable Members, Since our last meeting in this Chamber of Parliament in plenary, a lot has been said and written on social media about the role of this current Parliament and more espe...



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