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August 2013

The Road Maintenance Fund Administration in Sierra Leone has allocated the sum of Le 1,200,000,000 to both the Kenema City and Kenema District Councils for the maintenance of feeder roads and streets within the municipality

The Head of Media and Public Relations at African Minerals Limited (AML), has disclosed their desire to capacitate Sierra Leoneans.  AML has certified 7 locals (6 males and 1 female) as the first fully trained

The Texaco Police Post formerly called Clay Factory Police Post in the east end of capital Freetown is currently under a full scale refurbishment, a project worth over eighty million Leones financed by popular business

In a very big meeting organized by ten diamondiferous chiefdoms in the Kono District including a cross section of gold and diamond mining land owners and the grass root diggers in the district, land owners

The National Youth Commission (NAYCOM), in collaboration with the United Nations Development program [UNDP] has ended a two day Graduate Internship training program for pre- selected University Graduates. The training which attracted over one thousand participants

Latest reports reaching this press has indicated that president Ernest Bai Koroma, on Saturday August 24th 2013, played host to soldiers at Teko Barracks in Makeni. Our reports add that President Koroma was taken on a

War Wounded Academy at Grafton on Friday 23rd August received school materials from the Executive Director of Education and Sports for Development Mr. McCollins Jones as a way of enhancing their educational capacity.  (Photo: Executive

The Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Authority has continued it source search and secure exercise and also conducted  routine inspections of the Government hospitals in Bo and Kenema cities. Officers doing the source search in

The National Revenue Authority (NRA) will conduct a nationwide survey on rental income in a bid to widen the Authority’s tax base to increase domestic revenue. The Commissioner of the Domestic Taxes Department Mr. Ibrahim

The National Revenue Authority (NRA) has collected Le1.081 trillion against a half yearly revenue target of Le1.042 trillion, thereby recording a surplus of Le39 billion in the first half of 2013(Jan-June). This represents a 22%

The Sierra Leone Union on Disability Issues (SLUDI) in collaboration with Sight Savers through European Commission funding ended a day’s National Forum and popularization session for persons with disability on Tuesday 20th August, at the

The Deputy Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has made the carrion call to the people of Port Loko District where he recently concluded a one day sensitization drive on the role and responsibility of

The Vice Chancellor and Principal of Njala University, Alhaji Prof Abu Sesay has received a rousing welcome back home after receiving the prestigious Gold Medal award in India for his dedicated and diligent service to

The National Coordinator, National Epilepsy Association of Sierra Leone (NAE –SL), Mr. Max Bangura has revealed that about sixty thousand (60,000) people are presently suffering from the epileptic disease nationwide. The Coordinator made this disclosure during

The Most Reverend Father, Dr. Charles Allieu Mathew Campbell, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Bo has made his Second-hood ordination with Rev.Fr. Paul Abu Bakarr Turay, Rev. Fr. Daniel S.A.J. Libby and Rev. Fr.