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SLAJ@50 maiden activity: WORLD RADIO DAY 2021 Theme: The POWER of RADIO Date: 13th February, 2021 Venue: Harry Yansaneh Memorial Hall, 56 Campbell Street, Freetown. Statement by President of SLAJ, Ahmed Sahid Nasralla, on World Radio Day 2021 Freetown: 13|2|2021 The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) today, Saturday, 13th February, 2021, joins the rest of the world in observing WORLD RADIO DAY. World Radio Day is here again – that day that UNESCO encourages the world to acknowledge and appreciate the role and importance of radio. Regardless of the fact that the new media seems to be taking the world by storm, we should stop and think that there are still 2 billion people in the world that cannot read – those people are part of the world and also need access to information – radio can provide that access. In Sierra Leone today, the new media- particularly Facebook- accounts for about 500 to 600,000 users. This number is still less than 10 percent of our population, whereas ...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy) History was made today in the Tonkolili district Headquarter town of Magburaka. It was about a lauching but not just a lauching but a presidential lauching of a unique national microcredit scheme titled MUNAFA FUND.  The moment was great, significantly reassuring and a practical fulfilment of a Manifesto promise made by the president Bio while on his long and determined journey to the presidency. In a neat package, 4100 business beneficiaries, mostly youth and women in all sixteen districts, will benefit from a designated fund of one hundred billion leones over a period of three years starting now.  The scheme Will be superintended by the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Association (SMEDA) and run through established and reputable Financial Services Providers FSPs). In his statement, JJ Saffa, the erudite, compelling and purposeful grasssroot Minister of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED) explained to the thrilling audience that bread and b...