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Parliament Approves Three Nominees
Parliament on Friday, June 14, approved three presidential nominees, Leonard Balogun Koroma as Minister of Transport and Aviation, Sahr Kpulun as Board Member of the Sierra Leone Civil Aviation Authority (SLCAA) and Lahai Momoh Farma as Board Member of ...
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Ahead of Bye-election – NEC Chair Gives Stern Warning
In preparation for the Constituency 62 parliamentary bye-election in Tonkolili District scheduled for June 29, 2013, the Chairperson of the National Electoral Commission (NEC) Dr. Christiana Thorpe, has issued a stern warning to the Mile 91 police to provide maximum security for especially the independent candidate, John Gbla and his supporters to ensure that the election goes on ...
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Headman Negotiates Le 300M for Hastings
The Headman of Hastings revealed that he has succeeded in negotiating a Le300 million soft loan for the women of Hastings; the loan he said will be provided by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Usman Boie ...
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Youth unemployment in Africa a ticking time bomb or an opportunity
Senegalese opposition politicians denounced the country's high unemployment rate to mobilize youth against former President Abdoulaye Wade in the country's 2012 presidential election. Joblessness was one of the main issues that drove the country's many young unemployed into the voting stations to press for a change of government. The lesson of Senegal's election violence is ...
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African Union calls for more investment to promote jobs in Africa
Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, the first woman to head the African Union Commission, urged African Member States and international partners to invest more in order to promote job creation in the ...
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St. Joseph’s Convent Wins ACC Symposium On Corruption
St. Joseph's Convent Secondary School, Makeni emerged as winner of a symposium organized by the Northern Regional Office of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for Integrity Clubs in Makeni in observance of this year's Day of the African Child -June ...
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Minister Receives Saudi University Professor
Thursday June 13, 2013 – The Minister of Social Welfare Gender and Children's Affairs, Mr. Moi Jui Kai Kai received Professor Dr Alie Ibrahim Azahraani of the Islamic University of Medina, Saudi Arabia in his New England office in Freetown. Mr. Kai Kai welcomed the Dr Alie and promised to give his fullest support to the university's activities in Sierra Leone whenever the need ...
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African youths demand involvement in governance
Ask members of the African political elite, civil society activists or anyone else about the role of youths in national development and you will hear a lot of profound, if trite, catchphrases, such as "The youths are the future; they are the leaders of tomorrow." African leaders even declared 2009-18 the African Youth Decade. Before that, in 2006, they adopted the African Youth ...
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Agriculture Celebrates National Tree Planting Day In Kenema
In his welcome address the District Forestry Officer, Kenema district, welcomed all for coming, adding that he was very happy for the turnout and that even though people were not adequately informed and called on, all were able to fully participate as they were cerebrating national tree planting ...
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Road to Brazil Tunisia seal Knockout spot ahead of Leone Stars
The Cartage Eagles of Tunisia (in photo) secured their place in the knockout stage on the road to Brazil when they played 1-1 draw at the Estadio de Malabo on Sunday against host Equatorial ...
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Be Ecocitizens Minister Tells Ivorians
Little wonder, then, that on World Ocean Day 8 June Environment Minister Remi Allah-Kouadio appealed for residents to shed the littering habit and to become ecocitizens in this nation of some 22 million ...
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Random Musing – A Strange Contradiction
Since the last election, there has been a relentless criticism of the seemingly uncompromising, neutral or opposition media. This is not only bad manners - but also bad politics. Especially when the government has for example, failed to acknowledge the fact that it continues to heavily influence the television news agenda and that ninety five percent of the industry has lost its conscience and ...
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Sierra Leone’s media under attack A Strange Contradiction
Already, one can almost hear the cackle of satisfaction from beyond the watery grave, as a succession of meddling, bureaucratic grave voices assures the President, that not clamping down on the activities of a segment of the press, with wholesale failure to reflect the views of government, would guarantee a sequence of calamities. In a bid to ensure an unbalanced promotion of partisan political ...
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Sierra Leone Journalists threatened with “sanitisation” of media landscape
The International Press Institute (IPI) expressed serious concern today over the future of press freedom in Sierra Leone, following inflammatory statements made by Sylvia Olayinka Blyden (Photo: Left of former Nigerian President Obasanjo), special executive assistant to President Ernest Koroma. IPI urges political leaders in Sierra Leone to distance themselves from the threatening remarks made ...
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Vacancy Announcement – Operations Director
Living Water International (LWI) is a global non-governmental organization that exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities acquire desperately needed clean water, and to experience ';living water';--the gospel of Jesus Christ--which alone satisfies the deepest thirst. Living Water in Africa is providing safe drinking water, Christian Witness, sanitation and health ...
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Vacancy Announcement – Wash Specialist
Living Water International (LWI) is a global non-governmental organization that exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities acquire desperately needed clean water, and to experience ';living water';--the gospel of Jesus Christ--which alone satisfies the deepest thirst. Living Water in Africa is providing safe drinking water, Christian Witness sanitation and health ...
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Day Of The African Child Bringing The Focus On Street Children In Sierra Leone
Street Children are any boy or girl who is yet to reach adulthood. Who seeks a livelihood or residence in the street. The demography is growing globally with an estimated one hundred and twenty million (120,000,000) or one in every five children turning to the street. A quarter of them which account for about forty-five million live in Africa and majority of them are boys and are mostly visible ...
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China Kingho beyond an average perception
China's continued economic growth in terms of world economy is something that rising nations should properly make use of. This is more especially given China's development cooperation models with national in the developing continent, one of win-win; shared-growth and with less emphasis to attaching strings to whatever support is given. Factually, China has been a primary contributor to ...
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Full judgment between State vs Momoh Kemoh Konteh
Particulars of offence MOMOH KEMOH KONTE being a businessman, and the chief Executive officer (CEO) of Transtech international Ltd of No. … Percival Street, Freetown, and ALEX MANSAR4Y (CEO) of African Sunshine Limited, Freetown, on a date unknown between the ...
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Election Petition As Supreme Court strips President of immunity SLPP fails to unseat Ernest Koroma
The Supreme Court of Sierra Leone on Friday 14th June 2013 struck out the Petition filed by the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) to unseat Ernest Bai Koroma from the Presidency and cause a Presidential election to be held within one month. The reasons for this, the four presiding Justices maintained, was due to several procedural defects on the part of the Petitioners, John ...
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Unhygienic food served at Bo School Kitchen
If the condition of the kitchen at the Bo School and the utensils used for cooking food for the Boarding Students are anything to go by, then food cooked and served to students from the Bo School kitchen is very unhygienic. This reporter went on a spot-check last week and found out the following: That there is no strict adherence to cooking principles that take consideration of hygiene and ...
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CARL wants Taylor associate prosecuted
A press release from the Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL) has urged the Government of Sierra Leone "to investigate and determine if probable cause exists", to prosecute Ibrahim Bah, a close associate to former Liberian President Charles Taylor and a private businessman, for his role in pillaging Sierra Leone’s diamonds and other crimes. The release notes that ...
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AML work on Binkolo Health Centre stresses community
Maternal and child health service delivery at the Binkolo Community Health Centre is being seriously hampered due to the stalled rehabilitation work initiated the African Minerals Limited (AML). The Iron Ore mining conglomerate in Sierra Leone is said to have failed to pay the contractor and provide funds for the procurement of building materials for the past two months and this has resulted in ...
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Labour Congress trains media on social security coverage
The Sierra Leone Labour Congress (SLLC) last Friday ended one day media training on social security coverage at the Presidential Lounge of the National Stadium. It attracted media practitioners NASSIT and from both print and electronic media. Welcoming participants, the Vice President of SLLC, Jennings Wright noted his organization’s interest in caring for employees in the informal ...
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Banking fraud NRA investigates 28 Shipping Agencies
Reports reaching Awoko have indicated that the National Revenue Authority (NRA) is currently investigating twenty-eight shipping and clearing agencies for alleged defrauding the state of much needed revenue. An investigation launched by Awoko has revealed that the NRA has cast a wide net that has covered a number of banking institutions for their connivance with the unscrupulous shipping ...
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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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