In the recent history, we have weathered a difficult period in our personal, professional, and organisational lives by all accounts. We have witnessed unprecedented downturn in commodity prices and shut down of major companies that were lifeline for most of our colleagues. This situation has created joblessness, events with global suffering and loss from the COVID-19 pandemic. It was an honour for me to be elected as the first president of the Sierra Leone Institution of Geoscientists (SLIG),knowing fully well the challenging journey my administration

Message from Alhaji Salim Sillah, Managing Editor and President of SLIG (July 2018-August 2020).docx