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June 2012

The Director of IMAT COLLEGE, Amadu Justice Bah is today going to receive a high profile delegation from the University of London International Programme to Sierra Leone for a four day visit. Throughout her four day

Sierra Leone is still trying to overcome the challenges left behind by a decade long civil war. Since an end to our civil war in 2002, governments - present or past have done their little

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad - Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist, essayist and dramatist.  (Photo: Ian Hughes,

A student of the senior section of the Kolenten Secondary School in Kambia, Mohammed H. Conteh has on Tuesday June 12th this year scooped a three year scholarship from the philanthropic bred Attitudinal and Behavioural

In a bid to build up the capacity of Civil Society Organizations in the fight against graft in the country, the Northern Regional Office of the Anti-Corruption Commission has on Thursday 14th June 2012 trained

Freetown- The National Secretariat of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists has observed with dismay the lack of commitment of some of its members to honour their membership dues. With its many commitments, SLAJ cannot

Sierra Leone will take centre stage again in the international world with the country’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, His Excellency Edward Mohamed Turay, given the opportunity to deliver a 20 minutes speech about

Think about your life without electricity and other modern energy services:  no light to read this by, no appliances, no refrigeration. No computers to link you to the outside world or transport to get you

African Minerals Ltd., have completed payment of one billion and ninety-nine million leones as 2012 surface rent for mining and rail operations to about ten chiefdoms in the Bombali, Tonkolili and Port Loko districts, north

It’s the season of rain in Africa like in some parts of the world, and a time for cold winds for most of the sub-Saharan. It’s a time that farmers look forward to and a

I have to confess that I was a fan of candidate Ernest Koroma given his business background. His professional experience in the business sector seemed fit for the predictive model required to reconstruct or build

Exactly three months after the launching of the African Payment Service by Skye Bank within its network of subsidiaries in Nigeria, The Gambia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone, it has made the transfer of funds more

The Northern Regional Office of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has joined the Integrity Club of Birch Memorial Secondary School in Makeni to raise awareness on the evils of corruption and solicit support in the fight

The 2012 Global Peace Index (GPI) published by Center For Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Institute for Economics & Peace has ranked Sierra Leone, the 52nd peaceful Country in the world.  (Photo: HE President Ernest

In Kambia District with fund and supports from the United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) under the supervision of the Ministry of Social Welfare Gender and Children Affairs, Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) in the seven chiefdoms