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June 2012

On Saturday 30th June, Freetown’s magnificent Parade Ground, off Circular Road, will showcase the most exciting young footballers in Sierra Leone as teams from across the country compete for the Craig Bellamy Foundation National Youth

At a welcoming ceremony of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, held in Beijing, Jiang Zemin, then Chinese President said, “we attach great importance to the development and achievement of women,

It has come to the notice of this reporter that the minister of state south who is referred to as the resident minister Hon. Moijueh Kai Kai (in photo) has taken over the southern part

The Anti-Corruption Commission has on Monday 25th June 2012 engaged managers and representatives of banking institutions operating in Makeni in a bid to strengthen the mode of collaboration in the fight against corruption in the

  [caption id="attachment_43529" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="CSO and media practitioners at the update in Makeni"][/caption] The Anti-Corruption Commission has on Monday 25th June 2012 updated civil society representatives and media practitioners operating in Makeni on its activities in

Barely a week after UN Secretary General appointed current Health Minister, Zainab Bangura Under Secretary General for Sexual Violence in Conflict regions; he has once again turned to Sierra Leone for leadership by inviting former

Transcorp plc was envisioned as a transnational company of Nigeria that would bring together the strength of capital and unity of purpose in order to give Nigeria a strong institution with the ability to compete

Nigerians should limit the number of children they are having, according to the country's leader. President Goodluck Jonathan said people were having too many children, and went on to back birth control measures. President Goodluck Jonathan said

In an effort to further improve the national transportation network thus increasing investment and economic activities in the country, Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Germany, Jongopie S. Stevens has on behalf of his government,  signed a

CCACN SPORTS ORG., is supporting the Pickering Soccer Club as hosts, in an International Friendly Soccer Match on July 3rd. . This event is in commemoration of Jamaica's National Independence 50th anniversary, and youths from Montego Bay

The World Bank has aided the President Ernest Bai Koroma Government with the sum of seventeen Million United States Dollars ($17M) to carry out the latter’s “Pay and Performance Project”.  (Photo:  Ambassador Bockari Stevens, Sergiy

Star witness of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) in the ongoing trial of Momoh Konte, Sorious Samura spent the third day in the witness dock under intense cross examination from lawyer Maley Spaine. The quiet

On Sunday 1st July the Craig Bellamy Foundation will be conducting their second and final scouting event of 2012 for the Western Area.  The event is to be held at the Fourah Bay Field, with

David Odum–Nwanze, an American national has damned Sierra Leone’s degree of dropout in the education sector following his falling out with authorities at the College of Medicine and Allied Health Science (COMAHS) over admission and

Mohamed Thorley and eight others working for the Sierra Leone Museum have gone  on a sit down strike for two weeks over non payment of salaries for nine months.  According  to Mohamed Thorley, since they