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Fifteen-year-old Kelvin Doe from Sierra Leone who built his own radio station at the age of 13, 17-year-old Emirati environmental activist Mohammed Nabeel Al Blooshi, who turned the Liwa International School into one of the UAE’s first green schools, and 13-year-old Kehkashan Basu, the youngest person to be elected Global Coordinator for Children and Youth […]

The Institute of Advanced Management and Technology (IAMTECH), has graduated 402 students at its 2014 convocation during which the best male and female students also bagged a cash prize of Le 2, 000, 000 (two million Leones) each donated by the Adonis Abboud Educational Trust Fund.The best male student award went to Bockarie Musa Young, […]

Osman Charlie of the Sierra Leone Athletics Association who is also running for YSC won the Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) Marathon on Saturday 26th April 2014.He won the 21 kilometer run which started from Grassfield, Kissy in the East of Freetown, through the center of town on to Wilkinson Road and to Lumley Roundabout right […]

Past and present students of the Government Secondary school Kenema have celebrated another year of the founding of the school. This year’s anniversary celebrations started on Monday 21st April with a flag raising ceremony. As part of the schools tradition the Board of Governors as well as the schools administration every year interface with institutions, […]

Spokesman of the Chinese Embassy Mr Xu Zhou announced in Freetown yesterday Wednesday, 23rd April that China will donate medical materials to support Sierra Leone in the prevention of Ebola disease. He said that an agreement on China’s support to Sierra Leone was signed by the Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone, H.E. Mr. Zhao Yanbo […]

We do agree that family hood is treasured a lot the world over especially in Africa where the belief in the extended family still largely remains a kingpin in the culture and tradition. However no matter how much value we place on certain tenets of our culture, one thing that seriously threatens its sustenance is […]

The Liberian Government has been undertaking some admirable steps as part of efforts to conserve the remaining disappearing West Africa Upper Guinea Forest Ecoregion; a biogeographic region which is recognized as a biodiversity hotspot of global importance. After the German Forest Mission assessment of Liberia’s forest in 1958, the Government of Liberia established 9 National […]

In the Western world, airbrushed photos of Miranda Kerr dictate what beauty is. In West Africa, the Mende people use intricately carved wooden masks to communicate female aesthetic ideals. Ten of these so-called Sande masks are on view at the National Museum of African Art as part of a new exhibit, “Visions from the Forests: […]

The University of Sierra Leone together with the Sierra Leone Institute of Architecture is currently in dialogue with the London Metropolitan University for the establishment of a School of Architecture at the Faculty of Engineering, Fourah Bay College. The establishment of the Architecture School is aimed at training and producing quality personnel in the field […]

The monuments and Relics Commission of Sierra Leone, founded in June 1947 was set aside by government to Provide for the Preservation of Ancient, Historical, and Natural Monuments, Relics and other Objects of Archaeological, Ethnographical, Historical or other Scientific Interest. These ancient monuments can be building, ruin, remaining portion of building or ruin, stone circle, […]