Freetown, September 22nd 2025 – Professional staff at Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Works have staged a strike, calling on President Julius Maada Bio to dismiss Minister Dr. Denis Sandy over allegations of corruption, abuse of office and unprofessional conduct.
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Freetown, November 19th 2025- A growing wave of concern is sweeping through the East-end of Freetown following the controversial sale of a 3.14-acre parcel of land that has long served as a vital hub for education, healthcare and religious practice. The land, which hosts three schools, a community health centre, a mosque and a vocational institution, was recently sold to Randlyn Holding Limited, a foreign-owned company, for $200,000.
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Freetown, 19th September, 2025 An Audit of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) has...
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Freetown, September 15, 2025 -A damning performance audit of the Freetown City Council (FCC) has revealed that over NLe 672,880.50 allocated for youth empowerment between 2021 and 2023 was largely misused, with no evidence of vocational training delivered, despite clear mandates to equip young people with skills in carpentry, tailoring, welding, driving, soap making, and sports.
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Freetown, September 15, 2025 – Sierra Leone’s informal economy continues to flow beneath the surface of official trade statistics, with new data from Statistics Sierra Leone (Stats SL) revealing that unrecorded cross-border trade hit NLe24,089,399 in March 2024 alone. The findings, drawn from the 2024 Informal Cross Border Trade (ICBT) survey, underscore the scale and strategic importance of informal commerce between Sierra Leone and its neighboring countries.
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