PRESS RELEASE

IT IS WITH DEEP SADNESS THAT HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT DR. ERNEST BAI KOROMA, THE GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF SIERRA LEONE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCE THE DEATH OF DR. SHEIK UMAR KHAN, WHO WAS AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE FIGHT AGAINST THE EBOLA DISEASE IN SIERRA LEONE.

Heartlessness of SEA-bola… Sylvia Falsely Accuses the President

Heartless SEA-bola

The embattled and self-destructive Special Executive Assistant to the President (SEA), Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, has plunged herself into further ridicule when she tried to counter a report in The Torchlight about her failure to deliver much-needed equipment solicited by Sierra Leone Nationals in Canada (SALNAM) and handed over to her for the Ministry of Health & Sanitation in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus that has killed scores of Sierra Leoneans and infected hundreds others.

Sierra Leone Cyclist Missing from Games Village

By Mohamed Konneh 

Moses Sesay the Missing Sierra Leonean Cyclist

Cyclists Mohamed Thorley schedule to start his race by the end of the week is missing from the games Village whilst Moses Sesay who had been admitted for the past two days is still not fit to compete.

Ministry of Health and Sanitation Ebola Update July 27, 2014

·         118 patients have survived the disease and have been discharged from the treatment centers in Kenema and Kailahun.

SLAJ sets up Ebola Response Committee

SUNDAYJULY 27, 2014 –The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has set-up anEbola Response Committee to support the national fight against the deadly Ebola virus that has so far claimed the lives of some 165 Sierra Leoneans since the outbreak was confirmed in May this year.

AMBASSADOR SOULAY DARAMY RAPS GAMBIAN FOREIGN MINISTER

Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to The Gambia and Guinea Bissau, His Excellency Ambassador Soulayman Daramy, has in a show of diplomacy and professionalism, for which he is good at, called upon the Foreign Minister of The Gambia Hon. Aboubacarr Abdouliah Senghore to acquaint him and his government of the rapid developmental strives and economic growth Sierra Leone is going through and to further discuss on how to strengthen the bilateral ties existing between the two brotherly countries.   

ACC CALLS FOR COLLECTIVE EFFORT TO FIGHT CORRUPTION

The Regional Manager South of the Anti - Corruption Commission (ACC) Mr. Samuel Marah made a clarion call to the staff of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Bo, to take effective steps to curb corruption in the agricultural sector and the country as whole.

New Ghanaian Envoy Calls on Ambassador Victor Bockarie Foh

Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, with accreditation to many other countries in the South-East Asian Pacific, has stated that the role played by Ghana in ensuring Africa’s emancipation from Colonial Rule was  extraordinary.

Sierra Leone boxers out of Commonwealth games

Sierra Leone boxers Mohamed Sillah and Abdul Rashid Bangura are out of the commonwealth boxing contest after they were eliminated in the preliminary rounds.

Stella Grant out of commonwealth games

By Mohamed Konneh

Sierra Leone Table Tennis female player Stella Grant is out of the commonwealth games after losing both matches in the group stage. Stella lost her first match to 17 year-old Emma Ludlow of Northern Ireland and later lost to Annie Yang of New Zealand.

Sierra Leoneans in Saudi Arabia Pray Against EBOLA

By Ibrahim Sillah, Saudi Arabia

Under the supervision of the Embassy of Sierra Leone in Saudi Arabia, the Sierra Leone Nationals' Union (SLNU) in Riyadh, in collaboration with the Dawa and Guidance Committee, made it a point of national duty to converge at the Chancery on all the four Fridays of the holy month of Ramadan.

REMEMBERING DR SHEIK UMAR KHAN - THE CHIEF EBOLA DOCTOR IN SIERRA LEONE

By M C Bah, Atlanta, GA-USA, former NDA Presidential Aspirant

                               

Our nation today mourned the passing of a giant medical crusader - Dr. Sheik Omar Khan who lost the battle he once fearlessly waged against the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.

OPINION: THE MAKING OF HEROES!

By Unisa Kanu, Saudi Arabia

POLITICAL events in our post-independence history have clearly shown the birth of an unholy pattern. Whenever there is a systematic disintegration of law and order, and a government comes to change hands, there has always been one benefactor – the main opposition!