6th Floor, Youyi Building, Freetown.7 March, 2022- The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Amb. Tamba Lamina has engaged provincial Secretaries, Senior District Officers and District Officers ahead of about 21 Paramount Chieftaincy Elections that are poised to commence in a short while and discuss the Ministry’s expectations from them and the need for...
Author: Fatmata Conteh (Fatmata Conteh)
Hamilton Community has risen up to 1.5 billion Leones within a year as part of its community revenue mobilization
The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Amb. Tamba Lamina has announced to the President and the general public that Hamilton Community has within a year raised a total sum of 1.5 billion Leones out of proceeds from sand mining and also called on other communities to emulate the same method used by the...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT MINISTER PRESENTS 13 PARAMOUNT CHIEFS TO PRESIDENT BIO FOR CORONATION
Kambia Town, 23 February 2022- The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Amb. Tamba Lamina has presented 13 newly elected Paramount Chiefs (PC) to President Bio for coronation ceremony as enshrined in the 2009 Chieftaincy Act. It is a statutory provision in part 5 sections 17(a) of the 2009 Chieftaincy Act for newly elected Paramount...
Minister of Local Govt. reinstates Paramount Chief of Penguya Chiefdom
Sandaru Town, Penguya Chiefdom, Kailahun District, 4 March, 2022- The entire leadership of the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) headed by Minister Amb.Tamba Lamina, and other stakeholders including the Internal Affairs’ Minister, Resident Minister of the Eastern Region, 2nd Infantry Brigade Commander, Representative of the Office of National Security have officially reinstated...
US AMBASSADOR TO SIERRA LEONE PAYS A COURTESY CALL ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT MINISTER
6th Floor, Youyi Building, Freetown, 31 August, 2021- The United States of America’s Ambassador to the Republic of Sierra Leone, David Reimer, has paid a friendly visit to the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Amb. Tamba Lamina and his team including the Deputy Minister, Deputy Secretary, Directors and Chairperson of various units of...
LOCAL GOV’T MINISTER DISCUSSES WITH PARAMOUNT CHIEFS OF KONO DISTRICT
Koidu New Sembehun City Council Hall, Koidu Town, Kono District , 5 September, 2021- As part of his strategies to strengthen Chiefdom Administration across the country and close the gap between the Ministry and Chiefdom Administration, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Amb. Tamba Lamina, together with his Deputy Minister, Permanent Secretary and...
“PARAMOUNT CHIEFS ARE AGENTS OF CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT” SAYS LOCAL GOVERNMENT MINISTER AS ULTRA-MODERN HALL IS COMMISSIONED IN KONO
Tankoro Chiefdom, Kono District, 4 September 2021 -The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD), Amb. Tamba Lamina has encouraged Paramount Chiefs not just to consider themselves as traditional leaders but that they are critical agents of change and development in local governance. Minister Lamina made this statement during the official opening of a multipurpose...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT MINISTER MEETS WITH COUNCILLORS OF FREETOWN CITY COUNCIL
In a bid to respond to their concerns put in a letter that was addressed to him, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Amb. Tamba Lamina, has engaged 49 Councillors from the Freetown City Council (FCC) in a meeting he described as “an informative session” meeting. It could be recalled that couple of...
DIRECTOR OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMONISHES RESIDENTS IN PUJEHUN DISTRICT ON THE NEED TO MAINTAIN PEACE IN THEIR CHIEFDOMS
Pujehun Town, Southern Province, 6 August 2021- The Local Government Director in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Brima Newman Combey, has in his address to residents of Pujehun District during the Multi Stakeholders’ Platform Meeting organized by the Fambu Tok International Sierra Leone stressed the need of maintaining peace in their Chiefdoms....