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FirstBank boosts financial inclusion through digitisation in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Ladesope Ladelokun FirstBank of Nigeria Limited has announced its organisation of a Joint Seminar with sub-Saharan African Banking and Telecom Regulators to promote financial inclusion through digital innovations in sub-Saharan Africa. The event which was held in Lagos recently was themed “Advancing ePayment and Digital Innovations in Africa- Evolution of Nigeria’s Payment
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AFCON: CAF disqualifies Sierra Leone

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Sierra Leone have been disqualified from the 2019 African Cup of Nations qualifying competition, the Confederation of African Football said on Monday. Football’s world governing body FIFA had suspended the Sierra Leone Football Association in October due to “government interference”. CAF’s decision means Kenya and Ghana are assured of first and second place in Sierra […]
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Tony Elumelu mourns with Sierra Leone. Donates $500,000

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Following the August 14 unprecedented disaster, Tony Elumelu, Founder of Tony Elumelu Foundation and Chairman of United Bank for Africa (UBA), yesterday, Wednesday 23 August, paid a state visit to the people and Government of Sierra Leone to commiserate over the great loss caused by devastating mudslides and floods that have claimed hundreds of innocent […]
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Sierra Leone High Court sacks FA

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Sierra Leone Football Association’s President Isha Johansen, has been ordered by the country’s High Court to stop running the country’s football affairs until their legitimacy to govern has been proved. Latest media reports suggest that Johansen has been temporarily stopped after the court has granted the injunction at the request of some SLFA members.
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Ebola: Low-Key Independence Celebration in S’Leone

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Sierra Leone marked the 54th anniversary of its independence on Monday by setting out a four-point “post-Ebola plan” to put the devastated country on the road to recovery from the deadly epidemic. Almost 4 000 deaths have been registered since the epidemic spread from Guinea a year ago, although health authorities admit the real toll […]
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Ebola-Hit Sierra Leone Goes Back to School

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Sierra Leone’s 1.8 million children prepared on Tuesday to return to school, eight months after classes were shut to halt the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.   Classrooms have been empty since the government announced a state of emergency in July last year in response to an outbreak which has killed around 10 500 […]
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S’ Leone District Records First Ebola Case in Month

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Sierra Leone’s eastern district of Kailahun, once a hotbed of Ebola, has recorded its first case in nearly four months, threatening progress made to stamp out the disease, officials said Saturday.   A 9-month-old boy tested positive for Ebola after dying in Kailahun, the district on Guinea’s border that recorded Sierra Leone’s first Ebola case […]
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Plot to impeach Sierra Leone President thickens

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Sierra Leone’s opposition party is considering impeachment proceedings against the president and said it will refuse all co-operation with the government since the vice president was fired. The Sierra Leone People’s Party said after an emergency meeting on Saturday that it will also ask the Supreme Court to review Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana’s
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Ebola: Sierra Leone Orders Three-Day Lock Down

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Sierra Leone President, Bai Koroma, has ordered a three-day national lockdown in a renewed attempt to stop the spread of the Ebola virus disease. Koroma on Saturday unveiled a campaign called ‘Zero Ebola’, in which almost all Sierra Leoneans are supposed to stay indoors from Friday, March 27 to Sunday, March 29, and from 6am […]