State House, Freetown, Tuesday 3 September 2019 – Members of the Sierra Leone Teachers Union, SLTU, have met with His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio at State House to discuss their role in the successful rollout of the Free Quality Education programme. Presenting the visiting team, Minister of Basic…
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Yokohama, Japan, Friday 30 August 2019 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has praised the Japanese trading company, ITOCHU Corporation, for its investment in developing the largest pineapple producing and processing facility in Sierra Leone. Speaking at a side event on the margins of TICAD7, President Bio said…
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Yokohama, Japan, Thursday 28 August 2019 – Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzō Abe, has commended His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone for his efforts at nation-building, unifying the state to be politically stable and viable in the long run. During a bilateral meeting on the margins…
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Yokohama, Japan, Wednesday 28 August 2019 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has called for the right investment to prepare Africa for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) at the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7). The 4IR is the current and developing environment in which disruptive…
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Yokohama, Japan, Wednesday 28 August 2019 – Executive Senior Vice President of Japan International Cooperation Agency, JICA, Koshikawa Kazuhiko, has pledged support to the Government of Sierra Leone during a meeting on the margins of the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development, TICAD7. Welcoming His Excellency President Dr Julius…
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Yokohama, Japan, Tuesday 27 August 2019 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio and Her Excellency Madam Fatima Bio have arrived in Yokohama, south of the Japanese capital, Tokyo, ahead of the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) scheduled for the 28 – 30 August. The President…
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Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sunday 25 August 2019 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio will attend the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) in Yokohama, Japan, following an invitation from Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. This year’s TICAD7 Summit has been scheduled for 28 – 30 August and…
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State House, Freetown, Friday 23 August 2019 – The new executive of the Sierra Leone Bar Association has paid a courtesy call on His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio at State House in Freetown. President of the association, Robert Kowa, commended President Bio for his strides to ensure that…
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State House, Freetown, Thursday 22 August 2019 – Stakeholders from Bombali district have met with His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio to commend him for his government’s impressive performance since his election in April last year. Minister of Information, Mohamed Rahman Swaray, who chaired the meeting, said that the…
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Radisson Blu, Freetown, Wednesday 21 August 2019 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has unveiled Sierra Leone’s National Digital Identity Platform, making it the first such Blockchain national identification system in Africa. At the Seventy-third Session of the UN General Assembly last year in New York, the President…
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