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September 2009

News reaching this medium reveals that the National Commission for Social Action will soon launch the ‘Trust Fund for War Victim' that will help address the long awaited issue of reparation after the bitter and

Volunteers at the Kambia Government Hospital have resolved to go on strike for the non payment of stipends (incentive) for four months now. Thirty eight in number, consisting of Lab Technicians, cleaners, securities and more,

The People of Kailahun have envisaged the start of another civil strife in the country due to what they refer to as undue marginalization of the district in terms of development endeavors carried out in

The reopening of schools this academic year has seen school goers in the Eastern Part of the city cry over the way and manner transportation in the east end of Freetown operates in the morning

Residents of Port Loko in the Northern Province of the country are satisfied with the activities and accomplishments of the District Council taking into consideration the various developmental programmes they have undertaken in just this

What has really gone wrong? Our current police administration began with a slogan of "A Force for Good!" All will agree that the force lived and behaved according to the motto. This is a force

The Minister of Marine Resources and Fisheries, Honorable Haja Afsatu Kabbah, said in Freetown that his Ministry will soon start auctioning quality fish to residents in Freetown and the country as a whole. It's been

A 13 year old, Amadu Williams, living at number 71 Kombrabaidura Road, Kambia is alleged to have stolen Twelve million Leones. According to Mr. Idriss Kafol Kamara, who imprisoned the teenager in the Kambia police

A 26 year old man named Aruna Bangura; identified as a truck pusher at Malta Street, Freetown, on the 16th September 2009 raped a 12 year old girl who was sent to sell cassava for

Because of the serious over crowing in the maximum Pademba Road Prison in Freetown, the Sierra Leone Prisons has been provided with funds to build an alternate penitentiary facility in Magburaka, in the Tonkolili District,

Lungi community, considered as the gateway into Sierra Leone has been blighted by sprees of armed robbery attacks, cases of burglaries and daylight snatching of handbags both from commuters and visitors coming into Sierra Leone,

Ibrahim Sorie Barrie, a pupil at the Teachers Banta Primary School at Fourah Bay Road, in Freetown, who resides with his parents at 22 Lower Easton Street, is presently suffering from serious burns on both

Education in the country for the past two years has been tagged as the most retrogressive sector in the country. This is evident from the poor outcome in examinations in the country. In recent times,

The social-economic and political development of this country must be seen as something that depends on the collaborative efforts of us all as a people, irrespective of our political beliefs and convictions. For a very

I read comrade, Lawyer Iscandri's article of Saturday, September 19, on the Cocorioko online tabloid, titled - "Lawyer Iscandari says APC national authority has the right to ban APC -NA," and I felt a responsibility