Kenema City, Eastern Province, Friday 28 February 2020 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has officially turned sod for the construction of a Diamond Blade artificial turf in Kenema District, eastern Sierra Leone. With a lifespan of twenty years, the $960,000 artificial turf donated by World’s football governing…
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Kenema, Eastern Province, Thursday 27 February 2020 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has launched the first phase of Sierra Leone’s Social Safety Net Project to strengthen livelihood systems through job creation schemes for the poorest, skills development initiatives and micro-enterprise schemes. Addressing the ceremony, with ordinary citizens,…
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Bintumani Conference, Freetown, Tuesday 25 February 2020 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has today opened the first-ever Presidential Seminar for all 83 heads of commissions, parastatals, agencies and state-owned enterprises at the Bintumani Conference Centre, Aberdeen in Freetown. With the theme: “Consolidating the Foundation for Service Delivery”,…
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Presidential Lodge, Freetown, Monday 24 February 2020 – The National Mandingo Union has called at the Presidential Lodge, Hill Station, to present its new President, Alhaji Kanja Sesay, to His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio. Before presenting the team, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Tamba Lamina, said…
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National Stadium, Freetown, Saturday 22 February 2020 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio, acting as Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone USL, has urged thousands of young graduands, before conferring their degrees, diplomas, and certificates, to become entrepreneurs with innovative local solutions. “We can roast locally grown…
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State House, Freetown Wednesday 19 February 2020 – Chief Executive Officer of Aquila Company (SL) Limited, Dr Jan Popke Ketlaar, has briefed His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio on plans to rehabilitate and expand Hastings Airfield into an airport and develop similar facilities in Lungi, Bonthe and Magburaka. Accompanied…
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Siaka Stevens Stadium, Freetown, Sunday 16 February 2020 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has heartily welcomed the nearly 700 excursionists from over 80 countries, in 210 cars, 52 motorbikes, and 20 trucks and buses at the conclusion of the ‘Budapest to Bamako Rally’ that ended in the…
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