The Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Education has expressed grave concern over the deplorable and progressively retrogressing standard of education now plaguing this republic, blaming the precarious situation on the gross inefficiency of the Education Ministry. In
The Principal of the Methodist Senior Secondary School in Kenema, Vandi Tarawalie, is reported to have embezzled over Le20 million meant for the refund of the girl child school fees. During an interview with this reporter
One of the oldest schools in Kailahun District, the Pendembu Vocational Secondary School, Pendembu, Eastern Sierra Leone was one of the worst hit by the decade-long rebel incursion in this republic. Most of the school’s
In spite of the series of anti-violence campaigns and sensitizations carried out in this nation, the culture of violence continues unabated. Many Sierra Leoneans still have the erroneous belief that riot and other forms of
If drinking alcohol was a criterion to travel to Heaven, Paramount Chief Vonjus of the Gold Chiefdom would have long been sitting at the left hand of God the Father Almighty, since Jesus is already
OSD officers are reported to have raided the village Rochen Kamandaao in the Tonkolili District terrorizing the residents and carting away items worth millions of Leones including Le30 million which they are said to have
The Chief Fire Officer of the National Fire Force, Kamanda Bongay, has advised that people need to stay off their mobile phones and should not make or receive calls during lightening and thunder, noting that
“I will retire peacefully to my village in Bombali, eat my native fish, cassava or rice every morning whilst relaxing under the trees”. The President of Sierra Leone, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma was reported as
DAKAR 10 June 2013 - A science-based subregional plan for the management of inshore fish known as small pelagics, is gaining momentum towards completion in northwest Africa, the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME) project
The death that kills a man, it is said, begins as an appetite. For beleaguered governments, especially in our part of the world, volatile, divisive political issues and exotic foreign junketing that promises heaven and earth,
Chairman of Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), His Royal Highness (HRH) Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia arrived in Freetown yesterday. (Photo: (L-r HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al
Latest report reaching this press states that disgruntled supporters of the All Peoples Congress (APC) Mile 91, Tonkolili District, past Friday, went on the rampage and burnt down the portrait of His Excellency President Ernest
The founder of the KIDS Radio Network FM 103.0, Andrew Jenekeh Kromah, has officially launched the radio station during an impressive ceremony at the SKYY Radio office at 159 Circular Road, Freetown on Friday 7th
Those critics who were mockingly describing the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) as a toothless bulldog that barks without biting have been put to shame by Ugandan-born Justice J. B. Katutsi who has convicted and incarcerated two
Lecturers of the Milton Margai College of Education and Technology have vowed to go on a sit-down strike if government fails to honor their demand for the harmonization of conditions of service for all the
