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September 2012

The National HIV/AIDS Secretariat (NAS)-East in collaboration with ENCISS has ended a week long Chiefdom HIV/AIDS Peer Educators training in Kailahun and Kenema District. Participants were drawn from all the thirty chiefdoms both Kailahun and

As we count down to the 2012 November Elections we begin to scale the various factors that are expected to ensure that the country witnesses a peaceful, non-violent, free and fair democratic process through the

The prolonged battle for the ruling All People's Congress (APC) ticket to run for the position of mayor of the Freetown municipality safely concluded yesterday with councilor Borde Gibson, a Creole by tribe, emerging winner

The National Women’s Leader of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) Mrs. Isata Jabbie Kabbah commonly known as I J Kabbah, according to sources close to the Bio sensitization, have told Salone Sledgehammer that she

More cracks have occurred in the presumed Southern provincial stronghold of opposition SLPP and a host of symbol losers have threatened to back out for an independent candidacy. One of the top contenders for the SLPP

The council of Traditional Healers on Sunday 9th September, officially braced up with the Regional Commander (East) A.I.G Amadu Mannah, to provide security against ritual murders and other harmful traditional practices taking place within the

Thousands of women and youths from the main opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) based in Kailahun have vowed to vote for another political party if the main opposition party refuses to nominate Mrs. Navo

The Ministry of Defence will on Wednesday 12th September, 2012 commence the payment of pension and gratuity to over 240 Wounded in Action batch three former ex-soldiers of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces.

The Chief Administrator of the Kenema City Council, Bockarie Gbuanie, in an interview disclosed to journalists in his office that the Kenema City Council will be topping the list of the 19 councils in the

London Mining on 4 September sponsored eight host mining community stakeholders to attend a week-long community development agreement study tour in Ghana. In an historic move, London Mining is the first company to commission the educational

Perfect Plan is a film from Ironmaster Production, an all Sierra Leonean movie.  A romantic thriller directed by hugely talented Adeyemi Lardner and edited by his son, Francis Lardner. Adeyemi Lardner who also stars in the

The November 17th election is drawing closer and things are hitting up from all fronts for President Ernest Bai Koroma. However, the most important and immediate decision he has to make in the next couple

The National School and Adolescents Health Programme with technical support from World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with UNFPA, NGO Partners working with young people and line ministry - the Ministry of Education Science and

Ibrahim Leigh a businessman dealing in used clothing and resident of No. 17 Kamanda Farm, Wellington was past Thursday, 6th August, 2012 arrested while in possession of two rice bags full of reader books belonging

President Ernest Bai Koroma has signed on behalf of the Government of Sierra Leone, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a Chinese Consortium; (1) China International Fund Limited and (2) China Railway Construction Corporation in