Commentary By Gbaksondo Kloiloi, Freetown, Sierra Leone One of the legacies of colonialism in Sierra Leone is salary disparity. There used to be a vast disparity between the salaries of colonial officers from the United Kingdom and their local Sie...

Africa's gross domestic product has recovered strongly in the last year, but the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing war could pose considerable challenges in the medium term. This is according to...

PV Staff Earlier this week 328 Ukranians fleeing the war in their country arrived in Canada from Poland. At the airport to receive them was the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Canada, Chrystia Freeland. Here are some of her thoughts o...

PV Staff Not every Sierra Leonean at home and abroad gets to meet the venerable Pope Francis of the Catholic church. However, Jeremiah Thoronka, a 21-year-old Sierra Leonean student and winner of the Chegg.org Global Student Prize, was honoured to...

By Our Reporter Sierra Leonean football superstar Lamin Conteh, alias Junior Tumbu, was buried today at the Kissy Road cemetery in Freetown. Vice President Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, members of the Sierra Leone Football Association executive and dozen...

PV Staff Oulimata Sarr, Regional Director for UN Women in West and Central Africa, has expressed delight in bringing together in Dakar, Senegal, all the UN Women country representatives in West and Central Africa. According to Sarr, this is an ann...

PV Staff The new Education minister in France, Pap Ndiaye (photo), has a Senegalese father and a French mother. This might seem normal to a lot of people but it is a groundbreaking and even shocking appointment in France. It is perhaps a thank you...

PV Staff The Director General of the National Tourist Board of Guinea, Mrs. Kade Camara, met with her Burkinabe counterpart, Mr. Aimé Ouedraogo, Director General of the Burkina Faso National Tourist Board (photo) and Mrs.Ouedraogo Ilboudo, Directo...

By Our Reporter At a recent international conference in Freetown in which he represented President Bio, Vice President Juldeh Jalloh (seen on the right in photo) spoke highly about the enormous progress being made by Sierra Leone in the field of ed...

PV Staff Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered what he called strong support to the decision of Finland and Sweden to pursue NATO membership in a statement from his office in Ottawa today. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) All...