A document available to Politico and authenticated by senior officials of the National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT), who prefer anonymity, shows that Government institutions and Parastatals owe the social security scheme over Le 16 Billion.
“If you think that amount is too much,” one of them said grim-facedly, “wait until you see what private employers owe us”. (See Politico next week for detail on private employers and what they owe their staff).
By Zainab Joaque
Scores of striking workers at Africell mobile phone company have returned to work after management committed themselves to meeting all their demands, agreeing in principle that a staff union should be formed.
Although some 88 contract workers at the call centre are now full time staff with hopes to benefit from the proposed salary review early next year, no exact figure is guaranteed.
Sierra Leone today hosts the tenth Annual General Meeting of the West African Telecommunications Regulatory Assembly (WATRA) at the Miatta Conference Center in Freetown.
According to a press release from the National Telecommunications Commission, the 2-day event will bring together independent National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) and departments for regulation of telecommunications services established the sixteen countries of West Africa.
By Zainab Joaque
Christian Brothers from eight communities in Sierra Leone along with representatives from Ghana and Liberia, friends and members will gather in Freetown on Friday June 1, 2012 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of its founder, Blessed Edmund Rice.
SUNY BOY (Part 2): Depicting the everyday life of the everyday Sierra Leonean
An unspecified number of workers at the mobile telecommunications company, AFRICELL, have written a strongly-worded letter to their management demanding improved pay and conditions of service, issuing a 10-point demand.
Among the serious allegations levelled against their employers, the aggrieved workers accuse the company of flouting government provisions with impunity alleging that some government ministers are propping up the company because “they have vested interest there”.
By Abubakarr Jalloh in Dakar
There has been an angry reaction to the manner and scope of celebrations marking Sierra Leone’s 51st independence anniversary in Dakar on 27 April.
Some Sierra Leoneans living in the Senegalese capital, who had clamoured for the opening of the embassy there, have even suggested that it be closed.
They accused the ambassador, Khadi Bassir, of running the mission like “a private organization and not in the interest of Sierra Leoneans”.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
