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Romancing with Saudi media gurus
I had a very good time last Thursday when I was invited by Saudi Journalists to witness an award ceremony for Journalists and media houses. A good number of Saudi Journalists were honored with prizes for outstanding work at the National Media Awards ceremony hosted at the prestigious Park Hyatt Hotel here in Riyadh. The prizes were handed out by Minister of Culture and Information Abdulaziz ...
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Flour Mill may collapse accountant tells minister
2013 paid a one day working visit to the flour mill factory, commonly known as Sea Board West Africa Company located at Cline Town, east end of ...
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Is the Sierra Leone police a force for good
Sierra Leone has one of the worst crime figures in West Africa. A survey conducted last year found that the majority of people in the country do not trust the police force. Over 70% of people also said that the police force is the most corrupt institution in the country. This is a highly damning record, for an institution which takes its roots from the British tradition of 'fair cop' ...
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Tribute… Alice Foyah goes to Wonderland
When I got back to Parliament after the trip, I bumped literally into Hon Alice Foyah and after apologising for my clumsiness I told her of my trip to her constituency. She smiled fully, her eyes like two shining buttons. She placed a hand on my shoulder and said ...
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JAFAI plans to empower women children and physically challenged
JAFAI-Health and Support Services , a non-governmental philanthropic organization is seeking to empower women, children and persons with disability in Sierra Leone. The organization recently visited five deprived communities, Susan Bay, Kroobay, Waterloo Refugee Camp, Pademba Road Disabled Center, and the Lightfoot Boston Street of Freetown, to find out about problems, and a way of means to ...
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London Mining refurbishes Lunsar landmark in Sierra Leone
Building on foundations established by Delco over four decades ago, London Mining Company has further demonstrated its commitment to the community and people of Lunsar and its environs by renovating the Lunsar Town ...
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No brilliance is required in law just common sense
As part of "Operation WID", abandoned and illegally parked vehicles on main streets have become another major concern. Watching from where I am standing, it has had some instant successes, as many streets have been cleared to allow the free flow of traffic. It took me less than 10 minutes from Eastern Police to Up Gun Turntable the other day. A few months ago, this was unthinkable, and ...
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Imams end confab in Makeni
The United Council of Imams in Sierra Leone ended a two day conference on theme ';Islam in Sierra Leone and its challenges in contemporary period" at the Town Hall in Makeni on ...
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Kambai District Council clears the air
The rehabilitation of the Rokuprmagbema Chiefdom Health Centre and the Magbemgbeh, Gbinleh Dixon Chiefdom in the Kambia district has finally been completed, according to an investigation conducted by various media houses and press concern for the People's Advocacy Network Sierra Leone. The investigation came amidst various allegations saying the project was a scam. (Photo: Newly ...
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Sierra Leone could be in blatant breach of international laws
The recent rancorous confrontation between South African miners and the reckless Police Officers in the American Platinum Mining Complex in Rustenburg Marikan mine sent shock waves and disseminated animosity among locals as well as condemnation across the international community when the Platinum industrial dispute was viciously settled by the use of arms and ammunitions against miners who ...
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Why Leones and Cents are becoming so volatile with Sierra Leonean citizens
Texas, USA May 17, 2013 – In my country, Sierra Leone, respecting currency is one of the most patriotic things a citizen can do. Our currency is identified as Leones and cents. In Sierra Leone, the role of government and institutions of development, in my opinion, should be governed in a democratic manner as well as with a more strict approach towards individuals and their lack of ...
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‘MY World’ Survey – first results – half a million citizens tell the United Nations their priorities
New York, 16 May 2013 - Over 560,000 citizens from 194 countries have already voted for the issues that would make the most difference to their lives, providing, for the first time ever, real-time and real-world intelligence on what people think about the biggest challenges facing them and their ...
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Beneficiaries of a UNIDO training programme in Sierra Leone tell their stories
explains 21-year-old Malikie Kanneh. Kanneh has just completed a two-year training programme to become a mechanic. He is one of the 145 young men and women who have benefited from a UNIDO project, funded by the Government of Japan, in Kailahun and Koindu in eastern Sierra Leone, a rural area bordering with Liberia and Guinea. The project, which ran from March 2011 to September 2012, provided ...
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United African Coalition endorses Nigerian born physician for New York City Council seat
About two dozen United African Coalition (UAC) members held a press conference on the steps of Borough Hall and Courthouse Tuesday to announce the endorsement of Dr. Bola Omotosho as their candidate for City Council District 16 in Bronx, New ...
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UNDP Sierra Leone launches new website on Adobe CQ5.
UNDP in Sierra Leone joined a list of other UNDP country offices that are upgrading their online presence through UNDP'sWeb Upgrade Project, which seeks to develop high standards of online communication across UNDP."As Sierra Leone moves forward to consolidate democracy, review the constitution and continue to enhance inclusive economic growth, the new UNDP website will be a good ...
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Capital for the Future Saving and Investment in an Interdependent World
';Very long-run forecasting is a hazardous activity because the uncertainties and imponderables of life have plenty of time to intrude, and bend and buck the charted path. At the same time, to craft policy that is rooted in reason and reality, we need to peer into the future with the best information, statistics, and models that we ...
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A tribute to the late Mrs. Alice Foyah – MP for Kailahun
On 24 May last year, I went to Kailahun with the Peace Project to donate crutches to the disabled. And whilst I was there, the blind also requested we help them with walking canes. We promised to be back with the 500 walking canes, once they arrive from the United States. When I got back to Parliament after the trip, I bumped literally into Hon. Alice Foyah (Photo). And after apologising for ...
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Liberia Liberias Legislative Branch Urged to Summon EPS Boss Over Terrorists Journalists
The Plenary of Liberia's House of Representatives have been asked to invite the Director of the Executive Protection Service (EPS) to answer to questions of terroristic threat against Journalists. Two separate communications were written by Representatives Munah Pelham Youngblood (CDC-District #9 Montserrado County) and Richmond Anderson (LP-District #12 Montserrado County). Defending ...
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Liberia Woman Faints - During Police Sand Mining Raid
A woman who claimed to be owner of molded blocks Thursday fainted in the hands of residents of the 11TH Street Community after police confiscated several pieces of her blocks in a sand mining raid instituted by the Ministry of Lands and Mining. "Please don't carry my blocks. I have documents to prove that I molded these blocks from river sand," the weeping woman said as she ...
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Meeting Sierra Leone’s police chief
Progress and development: Sierra Leone continues to make tremendous progress in the area of maintaining internal security, just as it is with external security. Both the police and the armed forces have all kept excelling in their various constitutional mandates. This is notwithstanding the numerous challenges they are faced with in present day policing. The fact remains the police force has ...
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South America contraception up to 79 Middle Africa 19
Between 2003 and 2012, the total number of women worldwide wanting to avoid pregnancy and in need of contraception increased from 716 million to 867 million, with growth concentrated among women in the 69 poorest countries where modern method use was already very low. A young Chinese boy walks past a neighborhood 'sex shop', full of contraceptive suggestions, in central Beijing. (UPI ...
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Liberias Johnson-Sirleaf defends governance record
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Friday defended her government's record on good governance and transparency, following an independent audit that cast doubt on her anti-corruption ...
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Divided Europe veers between urgent growth and bleak austerity
Angela Merkel 's pro-austerity policies soon after becoming president in May last year, blamed the tough cutbacks regime imposed on troubled economies for much of Europe's economic problems. "What is hitting Europe is a recession provoked by the austerity policy," Hollande said at a Paris news conference. The president was especially keen to pin the blame on European ...
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Covenant Child World Ministries Women are hosting a Breakfast Fellowship tomorrow
YOU ARE INVITED TO OUR WOMEN’S BREAKFAST TOMORROW……. THE COVENANT CHILD WORLD MINISTRIES WILL BE HOSTING A WOMEN'S BREAKFAST FELLOWSHIP AT THE CARIBBEAN PALACE HALL ON SATURDAY MAY 18, 2013 AT 9 : 30 AM. ALL ARE INVITED . COME AND FELLOWSHIP WITH US. THIS FELLOWSHIP WILL MOTIVATE YOU AND THE WORD OF GOD WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER. THE THEME OF THE BREAKFAST IS ...
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Sierra Leone has a challenge on its hands
Sierra Leone is relatively unknown on the international stage, it is a tiny country of just 6 million people, perched on the edge of West Africa with its coastline gazing out into the Atlantic, a body of ocean that has played as important a part in the country’s history as the natural resources that have brought the state such infamy.
Sierra Leone, unfortunately, is known abroad, for those that have heard of the country, as a war-torn little state where social cohesion and everything that goes with it has collapsed entirely. World headlines in the 1990s were filled, appropriately, with stories of the civil war raging in the country at a time when the Revolutionary United Front was trying to overthrow the military dictatorship headed by Joseph Momoh. Read more
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