His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has engaged a high-level delegation from the Egyptian energy producing company, El Sewedy Electrometer, where he promised to provide the conducive environment for investments in Sierra Leone.

During the meeting at the Haqyatt Resort, Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, Chairman and CEO of the company, Engineer Emad Z. Elsewedy, said his company had been to Sierra Leone once during the meter installations in 2004, a project he described as their opening to Africa.

By John Koroma

A Sierra Leonean Physician trained and based in the United States of America, Dr. Fouad Sheriff, over the weekend opened the Cotton Tree Pharmacy at Pademba Road in Freetown with the aim of providing affordable treatments and drugs to meet the needs of Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad.

“Cotton Tree Pharmacy will carry genuine brand name and generic products for the body sourced from makers across the world,” said the Dr. Fouad Sheriff, adding that the pharmacy’s warehouse sells retail and wholesale drugs as well as medical accessories to health care professionals.

EITI Validation Team meets VP Jalloh

The Hon. Vice President Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh on Thursday November 8^th 2018 stated that the ‘New Direction’ Government is taking the issue of transparency in the Extractive Industry very seriously.

He made this statement during a courtesy call on him at his Tower Hill Office in Freetown by the EITI Validation Team from Oslo, Norway who are in the country to assess whether the EITI implementation of the country is consistent with EITI standard.

High Commissioner Tamba Lamina (right) discussing with the High Commissioner of the State of Kuwait, who is also the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in London

Barely two weeks into his post, Sierra Leone’s newly-appointed High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Tamba Sylvanus Lamina, is off to a flying and busy start.

From his office in central London, High Commissioner Tamba Lamina is busy working his way through tons of diplomatic files, dusting off and reactivating long ignored projects, as well as working hard to unveil new plans that should spark more international interests in Sierra Leone, which should help to transform the nation’s image in line with the policy goals of the government’s New Direction Agenda.

By By Prince C. Kamara

Africa Young Voices (AYV) Media Empire is the biggest media institution in Sierra Leone with about 80% national coverage in terms of news, entertainment, sports programmes for television, radio and newspaper. AYV also has a commercial printing press.

The AYV currently operates two television channels (channels 33 and 34), a radio station and a newspaper. Next year the media conglomerate is considering launching a quarterly magazine.

TEF Cover 1, 2, 3 and TEF 1: Founder, The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Mr. Tony O. Elumelu and The President, Republic of Ghana, Dr, Nana Akufo-Addo, at the TEF Entrepreneurship Forum 2018, the largest gathering of young African entrepreneurs, and the launch of TEF Connect, the world’s largest digital platform for African Entrepreneurs , organised by The Tony Elumelu Foundation in Lagos on Thursday

Thursday, October 25, 2018: 5,000 African entrepreneurs, private and public sector leaders and the broader entrepreneurship ecosystem convened in Lagos on Thursday, October 25, 2018 for the annual Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Entrepreneurship Forum.

Kono market women are not happy

By Aruna Turay

Following the unfortunate incident regarding the fight between the Coalition for Change (C4C) and the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) supporters, past Sunday 28th October, 2018 in the Koidu city, Kono district, the Kono Members of Parliament have condemned the action of supporters of both parties on the one hand, criticizing the police for their high-handedness on the C4C supporters on the other hand.

The two-day fifth Multi-Stakeholders’ Platform Workshop on the implementation of the National Land Policy (NLP) and the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forestry (VGGT) in the context of national food security ended at the Bintumani International Conference Center, Aberdeen in Freetown on  9^th October 2018.

CEO of AYV: Ambassador Anthony Navo Jr

By Joseph Johnson

The Africa Young Voices (AYV) Media Empire management has held its annual retreat at the Sierra Palms Hotel in Freetown.

The retreat, according to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and President of AYV Media Empire, Ambassador Anthony Navo Jr., is to look back at past mistakes; improving on the strengths of the institution and developing a roadmap for 2019 that will be a guide for the execution of those plans.

By Ransford Lube-Metzger

Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) has commenced three-day regional conference on combating money laundering and terrorist financing in the maritime sector.

Issues discussed on the first day were centered around international standards on anti-money laundering and countering international legal frameworks for combating maritime piracy among other issues.

Women of Bo District were all smiles when they received their empowerment envelopes this week, with micro-finance funds from WIMI headquarters in Montgomery, USA.

The President and Founder of WIMI, Apostle Kemi Searcy spearheads annual fundraising with supporters through donations, banquets and partnerships to help empower less fortunate and vulnerable women in the USA and Africa (Sierra Leone in particular) while ministering to them spiritually.

By Mohamed Kai

Edmund Cowan presiding over the Freetown Magistrate Court No. 8 at Siaka Stevens Street has granted bail to one Abdul Aziz Kargbo in the sum of fifty million Leones in like sum for violating the Criminal Procedure Act of 1965 of the Laws of Sierra Leone.

By Mohamed Lamin Banya

As part of their dream to lighting, developing and empowering communities, the National Petroleum (NP) Sierra Leone Limited has officially launched and unveiled its new filling station at Mambo in peninsular area Freetown.

The filling station which is situated at Mambo is the 38^th NP outlet across the country and it serves as the hub for Mambo community that was once seen as underdeveloped and deprived.

Prof. Yormah

With this year’s theme “International Standards and the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, the Sierra Leone Standards Bureau (SLSB) has celebrated World Standards Day at its headquarters at Ferry Junction in Freetown.

The celebration is held every year on the 14th October around the world in celebrating efforts made by people and institutions towards the promotion of standards.

The Sierra Leone Brewery Limited (SLBL), commonly known simply as Brewery Limited, is the first and only brewery of international standards in the country.

It is not only one of the most viable businesses employing hundreds of workers and providing a livelihood for dozens of farmers especially sorghum farmers, but it’s also a kind of historical institution that has seen change of several governments including military governments, come and go since the country gained independence in 1961.

By Austin Thomas

Six of the seven entrepreneurs with their certificates and monies

Sensi Hub, a financial institution that supports young entrepreneurs in Sierra Leone has supported seven young entrepreneurs in various fields with thousands of pound sterling.

Addressing them the Director of Sensi Hub Morris Marrah said for this year they are supporting 30 young entrepreneurs in various fields with a total amount of 70,000 pounds.

Africa’s top businessman – Aliko Dangote, has called for conscious efforts at deepening African regional market by African investors and governments, so as to aid rapid growth and development of the Continent’s economy.

Speaking in London in a “One to One Conversation” at the ongoing 5th annual Financial Times African Summit, the Nigerian entrepreneur said that the key to Africa’s economic growth and strength is in the development of the regional market. “Regional markets in Africa must work,” he said.

Dangote calls on Africans to patronize African markets, which he said is why the free trade agreements by African nations is the direction to go to strengthen African markets.

MoneyGram, a leading global money transfer service in Ghana, has been recognized for its innovation in money transfer with the Mobex Africa Innovation in Money Transfer Award. The award acknowledges MoneyGram’s continuous innovation in enabling remittances directly to bank accounts and into mobile wallets, which were both introduced this year.   MoneyGram was selected from a competitive nominee pool including major players like GHIPSS, Expresspay, Ecobank, Barclays Bank & Alexpay.

MoneyGram, a leading global money transfer service in Ghana, has been recognized for its innovation in money transfer with the Mobex Africa Innovation in Money Transfer Award. The award acknowledges MoneyGram’s continuous innovation in enabling remittances directly to bank accounts and into mobile wallets, which were both introduced this year.   MoneyGram was selected from a competitive nominee pool including major players like GHIPSS, Expresspay, Ecobank, Barclays Bank & Alexpay.

Mohamed Kallon, Interim President NAPP

As part of their study tour to Sierra Leone, the visiting Gambian Public Procurement Authority delegation met members of the Sierra Leone National Public Procurement Professionals.

Mohamed Kallon, interim President of the National Association of Procurement Professionals (NAPP) in Sierra Leone, who also doubles as Assistant Director in the Ministry of Education in charge of Procurement, told this medium that his Association was formed to champion the activities of procurement professionals in Sierra Leone over a year ago.