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April 2016

Last week, at the biggest UN drug policy summit for a generation,  a mother who lost her child to drugs and is now campaigning to end the global drug war, inspired the Canadian Health Minister

Freetown, April 21 (SLENA) - The Milton Margai College of Education and Technology (MMCE&T) polytechnic on Tuesday 19th April 2016 organized a general staff meeting and workshop for lecturers and administrative staff “to critically examine

April, 22, 016 (MOHS) - The Ministry of Health and Sanitation will start measles vaccination of 2.8 million children targeting age 6 months to 15 years countrywide from April 25 to May 1, and the

The Kono descendants have called for a worldwide demonstration on the 23/04/16 at the offices of Tiffany & Co in London.  According to information, Tiffany & Co is sharing a financial partnership with OCTEA; the

The Embassy of Sierra Leone in China on Friday, 22nd April, 2016, hosted to a working lunch, a group of 20 Sierra Leonean Journalists,  rounding up a three week long training session on New Media,

The Sierra Leone Commercial Bike Riders Union (SLCBRU) has called for a truce with the new Minister of Internal Affairs, Alfred Paolo Conteh (in photo), who has vowed to halt the reckless manner in which

The miracle of winning an election especially presidential election is not by ensuring fighting among one another but concerted efforts to choose the right person for victory. If the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) means well

Residents of Tower hill Community bank of climate change secretariat have expressed serious concern of series of threat by NRA officials of an illegal eviction that bridged the agreement between both parties. According to Mr.

April 22, 2016 – Freetown, Sierra Leone - Further to the Standard Times Newspaper publication of 20th April, 2016 (Vol.69, No. 9), on page 16, which reads … “unlike the charcoal scandal in Makeni that

Following her thorough dressing down by the Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Appointment and the Public Service a few weeks ago, the Sierra Leone Civil Rights Coalition (SLCRC) has exposed the new Minister of Social Welfare,

In marking its 40th year of operation in Sierra Leone yesterday, Plan International Sierra Leone has lauded the Sierra Leone ‘Soweis’ Council for its determination to end girl-child genital mutilation in the country. In his statement,

Freetown, April 19, 016 (MOHS) - The President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma through the Ministry of Health and Sanitation has over the weekend donated a three Compartment Mortuary Cold Rooms each to the Kenema, Bo,

Freetown, April, 20, 016 (MOHS) - The Nurses and Midwives Board has shut down the Gbaneh School of Nursing situated at Old Wharf, Wellington. According to the Nurses and Midwives Board, the Gbaneh School of

Freetown, April 19, 016 (MOHS) - Health and Sanitation Minister Dr. Abu Bakarr Fofanah has reassured the newly arrived China medical Team of Government’s commitment to building the Jui Friendship Hospital human resource capacity to

Freetown, April, 19, 016 (MOHS) - Delivering his keynote address at the opening ceremony of the three-day Annual TB/Leprosy Review Meeting held at the Wusum Hotel in Makeni, Health and Sanitation Minister, Dr. Abu Bakarr