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October 2016

The Sierra Leone Legal Aid Board past Tuesday 11th October, 2016 joined the Annie Walsh Memorial Secondary School to observe this year’s International Day of the Girl Child at the School ground on Kissy road,

Following the current spate of street trading on the main old road along Calaba Town Market in the east of Freetown, the Area Police Partnership Committee and the Police have recently conducted a tour with

Foundation Help Sierra Leone, a local NGO operating in the country added a feather to its numerous achievements in Sierra Leone when it commissioned a six class room modern school building named ‘Spring Water Academy

1960 Ordinance had prohibited Sunday trading within the Freetown Municipality. Though valid, the law was hardly implemented in post independent Sierra Leone. The advent of multi-party democracy and the rapid urbanization of Freetown meant that

This was one word I always prayed, will be banished from the political vocabulary of our country; because I saw, felt, and tasted what AUSTERITY was. This is no attempt to digest the inner bowels

Leading players from across corporate Sierra Leone will compete for Sierra Leone’s most prestigious corporate awards and leadership honours at the first annual Sierra Leone Business Awards (SLBSA) in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The prestigious awards ceremony and banquet dinner,

The greater Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) to Mecca of 2016 has come to an end. But Hajj is still an experience to write home about. I spoke to a good number of Sierra Leone pilgrims shortly

The Vice Chancellor and Principal of Njala University Professor Ernest Ndomahina together with his counterpart in the University of Makeni, Reverend Father Joe Turay were joined by Dr. Richard Conteh to officially launch a handbook

Members of the Sierra Leone Gullah Kinship Association have expressed disappointment at Government for not accommodating the organization to support its current economic crisis in the country. Chairman Gullah Kinship Association Lamin Kamara said, his organisation

The Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute (SLARI) is in the process of preparing to reduce the yield gaps in farmer’s field in the country. This was disclosed by Dr. Mathew Gboku, Deputy Director General and

The Deputy Director of Budget Bureau in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Tasima Jah has expressed dismay at some MDAs that evades the recent budget allocation discussions meant to determine the allocation of

The campaign on Attitudinal and Behavioural Change for sustainable community hygiene development (ABC) has taken a new approach when the Member of Parliament for constituency 104 in the Western Urban, Hon. Alpha Baba Tunday Lewally

Councilor Sheka Lamin Dumbuya of Dworzark has confirmed to this medium that he has intensified campaign to take over Hon. Amadu Fofornah commonly known as ‘Fofie’ but constituents at Plum stick area within his ward

The Director of Sports in the Ministry of Sports, Mr. Ibrahim Bangura has highlighted successes and achievement made by the sector. Bangura was speaking during a power point presentation at the ongoing national bilateral budget discussion

Rural connectivity going nationwide Chairman of the National Telecommunications Commission, (NATCOM), Momoh Kemoh Konte was joined by Commissioners Frank Mania and Ibrahim Koroma to officially inaugurate the Airtel network in Mongo, Neya  and Sulima Chiefdom in