Bonthe, Southern Province, Monday 26 December 2022 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio is spending this year’s Christmas break on Sherbro Island where he has revived the canoe race, which started in 1959 and stopped in 1964, a long-forgotten tradition of the historic Sherbro people of Bonthe District.…

Koidu City, Kono District, Wednesday 21 December 2022 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio was in Koidu City to grace the 2022 Kono Conference where he encouraged people in the diamond-rich district to take the education of their children and agriculture very seriously. He used the occasion to…

Washington D.C., USA, Wednesday 14 December 2022 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has met Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, a private American philanthropic funding organisation, to continue discussions around possibilities of sustainable energy market in Sierra Leone. This meeting, on the margins of…

Presidential Lodge, Hill Station, Freetown Saturday 10 December 2022 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio and First Lady Fatima Bio today hosted His Excellency Hage Gottfried Geingob of Namibia and First Lady Monica Geingos as special guests of honour to commemorate the 4th anniversary of the “Hands Off…

State House, Freetown, Friday 8 December 2022 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio, as co-chair of the global Transform Education Committee, has completed a virtual High-Level Steering Committee, HLSC, meeting by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. The hybrid meeting looked into many issues, including the…

State House, Freetown, Tuesday 6 December 2022 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio and Vice President Dr Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh today received the first copies of the new securitised national passports from the Chief Immigration Officer, Andrew Jaiah Kaikai and confer Sierra Leonean citizenship to 109 African diasporans.…