State House, Freetown, Thursday 5 November 2020 – A Member of Parliament, M’jid El Guerrab, serving in the National Assembly for French people living in the Maghreb and part of West Africa, has paid a courtesy call on His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio. While introducing the delegation to…

State House, Freetown, Thursday 5 November 2020 – The management of Mercury International has presented a cheque of Le 500 million to His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio to support the construction of a multi-storey classroom building for the St. Joseph’s Convent Secondary School in Freetown. Managing Director of…

Presidential Lodge, Freetown, Saturday 31 October, 2020 – High Commissioner of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and former Dean of the Diplomatic Community in Sierra Leone, His Excellency Dr Ibrahim Habis Ugbada, has called at the Presidential Lodge to bid farewell to His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio. He…

State House, Freetown, Friday 30 October, 2020 – South African High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, resident in Accra, Ghana, Her Excellency Lulu Xingwana, has called on His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio to bid farewell after almost five years of tour of mission. She thanked the President and people…

Freetown International Conference Centre, Friday 30 October, 2020 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has inaugurated the Government Civil Society Organisations, CSO, Dialogue Series and hoped that the public engagement will help strengthen and consolidate the country’s democratic values. “I am tasking my Government to infuse more candour…

BBC CUE: Journalists in Sierra Leone have called it “a watershed moment” or even Liberation Day. The country’s president, Julius Maada Bio, yesterday signed repeal of a 55-year-old media law campaigners around the world have called repressive. The Criminal and Seditious Libel Law has been in place for more than…

State House, Freetown, Wednesday 28 October 2020 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has publicly signed the amended law, effectively repealing the 55-year-old seditious libel section of the Public Order Act 1965 that criminalised free speech and stifled journalism in the West African nation.  “I have always argued…

State House, Freetown, Monday 26 October, 2020 – His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has met with Commissioners of the Independent Media Commission, IMC, applauded their efforts and urged them to deliver on a progressive media landscape. Minister of Information and Communication, Mohamed Rahman Swaray, introduced the media regulators to…

Moyamba, Southern Province, Saturday 24 October 2020 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has commissioned 7 primary and 5 junior secondary schools, 11 community health posts, boreholes, a hospital and 2 brand new ambulances under the aegis of the National Commission for Social Action, NaCSA, south of the…