It was a tepid and weak performance from Sierra Rangers, and a win would have helped build confidence and move us in the 2nd place of our Group. As with the England game, ABK (assistant coach) started with an unfamiliar line-up featuring Issa kamara partnering Francis in the center of midfield, Kelly Marrah on the left, […]

SOCCER – MANZINI Sundowns’ midfield-cum-defender Sabelo ‘Sawa’ Gamedze is unlikely to return for second leg of the 2015 AFCON qualifiers clash against Sierra Leone. The player was dropped from the squad just before the first leg of the clash played at the Somhlolo National Stadium after coming down with chicken pox. Sihlangu’s head-coach Harries ‘Madze’ […]

Orange on Monday agreed to sell its 65.9% stake in Orange Uganda to Lebanon-based Africell. The deal adds a fourth market to Africell’s footprint. The telco currently has operating subsidiaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, and Sierra Leone. The group currently has more than 9 million active subscribers and expects to grow to […]

ISHMAEL Beah’s 2007 memoirs, A Long Way Gone, was a brave, brutal, haunting and horrific glimpse into the life of child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Prior to the decade-long civil war that began in 1992, Beah’s life was simple: he hung out with his older brother and friends, trying to rap and dance to hip hop […]

The Country’s leading GSM operator, Airtel-Sierra Leone, on Tuesday 13 May 2014 launched its fourth season of Africa’s largest youth football initiative ‘Airtel Rising Stars’ with the mission to take football to all the 149 chiefdoms in the country. In his statement during a well-attended ceremony chaired by Airtel’s June-Rose Johnson at the company headquarter […]

BAM International and its South African joint-venture partner Stefanutti Stocks have been awarded the contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a petroleum jetty at the Kissy Oil Terminal of Freetown in Sierra Leone. It will take the joint venture approximately one year to design and complete the project for PetroJetty Ltd. https://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com/spip.php?article7744

The Sierra Leone High Commission in Nigeria on Friday April 25 th., Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th. Celebrated its 53rd Independence Anniversary. Nigeria and Sierra Leone has a long and close historical ties. Nigeria being the big brother of Africa sacrificed Men, sweat, blood, tears and resources in bringing Peace to our beloved Country, Sierra […]

The Economic Committee of West African States (ECOWAS) Trade Negotiation Capacity Building Project in collaboration with the Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Trade and Industry organized a capacity building workshop on International Trade Negotiation for members of the National Coordinating Committee on Trade (NCCT), Sierra Leone. The five days training workshop which kicked off  Monday 5th […]

Having become a statutory instrument following the President’s assent on the 30th November, the National Revenue Authority (NRA), prior to executing the provisions inherent in the 2013 Finance Act, has begun sensitizing taxpayers across the country on what is in the new Act and how those provisions are going to be handled by the revenue […]

  WALKING the streets of Sierra Leone, Kat Buxton was amazed by the generosity of locals who would invite her into their homes for a meal, despite having very little food for themselves. Now the enthusiastic cook has replicated this generosity in her Porthtowan home by opening it to the public as a pop-up restaurant […]