NATCOM & MIC on Road Safety

By John Sorsor Samura

The National Telecommunications Commission (NATCOM) and the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) in collaboration yesterday observed the World Communications and Information Society Day with a symposium on the theme “ICTs and Improving Road Safety” at the Shangri La, Beach Road, Lumley.

Mr. Saidu Turay, who spoke on behalf of [...]

Salone gets another chance at Big Brother

Dr. Adonis Aboud

After an extraordinary performance and grabbing the highest votes in last year’s Big Brother showpiece in South Africa, Sierra Leone is again set to make her presence felt in the upcoming event.

Speaking at the special ceremony, ‘Celebrate Africa with DSTV in May” hosted at the TAIA Resort, the Chief Executive [...]

70% of persons with disability are homeless

By Maddieu A. A. T. Kabbah

The Disabled International Foundation Sierra Leone ( DIFSIL), in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs  on Tuesday 7th May 2013 launched a report on some critical issues affecting the physically challenged in the country.

Speaking at the launching ceremony at the ministry’s conference [...]

AYV Desmond Jones launches Kao Denero’s ‘Mama Nor Dae Nar Os Pikin Foundation’

By Princetta Williams

Reporter and Presenter of AYV Radio 101.6 FM, and publisher of the Youth of 2Day column in AYV Newspaper, Desmond Eric Jones, has launched the children foundation of one of Sierra Leone’s most popular hip-hop rap musicians, Amara Denis Turay aka Kao Denero during the launch of ‘Back to My Root’ [...]

Why President Koroma should intervene in the Afri Radio saga

By Alhaji Sulaiman Kargbo

Since the setting-up of a committee to investigate the granting of a broadcast license to Africell mobile company to operate a radio station in the country, very little or nothing has been heard from that committee. Concerned Sierra Leoneans, who had fallen in love with Afri-Radio in the little spell [...]

Le750M for National Cultural Festival

By Ibrahim Dugba

The Government of Sierra Leone has provided Le750 million as funding for the annual National Cultural Festival commencing this year from the 19th-27th April 2013, the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Affairs said yesterday.

The Minister of Tourism, Hon. Peter Bayuku Konteh, said the festival was a hundred percent government [...]

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NATCOM clamps down on SIM Box Fraud!

 

 

By Abdul Kuyateh

 

 

The Cyber Security Task Force of the National Telecommunications Commission (NATCOM), in tandem with the Electronic Crime Syndicate of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), has stepped up efforts to clamp down on illegal international call termination, thereby saving the Government millions of dollars revenue [...]