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At Lumley Beach Police Post … Police kills
Police personnel attached to the Lumley Division yesterday shot dead one man at Lumley Beach west end of Freetown by the Golf Club Police post According to an eye witness account a man believed to be in his 40′s only known as Donald was seen around the Lumley Beach during the morning hours of yesterday with a weapon. He has worked in the United States Criminal Investigation Department ...
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Ten-minute rain floods Eastern Police
The Eastern Police intersection was completely flooded in the evening of Tuesday, after a light rain that lasted for just 10 minutes. The flooding adversely constrained human and vehicular movements, forcing pedestrians to remove their shoes and sneakers, to wade through the smelly flowing water that was carrying all sorts of rubbish. For many pedestrians caught off-guard by the flooded ...
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Art Academy to be constructed
Freetong Players International yesterday launched their first newspaper ‘DI YELIBA’ Newspaper as part of their 28th year celebrations at Old School Hill Station. The launching was also part of a conference on Art, Culture, Peace, and Development. During the ceremony it was also revealed that an art academy was to be constructed at No.2. Speaking during the conference, the ...
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Japan signs $13.97million power supply Grant for Freetown
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Government of Sierra Leone and the Government of Japanyesterday signed the Exchange of Note and Grant Agreement of $13,970,000 towards the project for the urgent improvement of power distribution system in Freetown. TheExchange of notewas signed by the Japanese Ambassador to Sierra Leone Mr. Naoto Nikai on behalf of the ...
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Complete version of Krio Bible out
A full version of the first Krio Bible both the old and new testament, is out and will be launched on Tuesday 28th May at the Presidential Lounge of the National Stadium. A member of the Bible Society In Sierra Leone, Raymond Jarrett told Awoko that the Bible translated and edited by professional Sierra Leoneans was compiled in Nairobi by the Bible Society in Sierra Leone and that the ...
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Old Princewaleans holds AGM today
The Old Boys of the Prince of Wales (POW ) secondary school in Freetown will be holding their Annual General Meeting (AGM) today(Thursday 23 May) at the Cathedral House, Gloucester Street in Freetown at 5pm. Speaking to Awoko, Chairman of the Publicity Committee on the Rehabilitation of the School, Dauda Musa Bangura revealed that this year’s AGM is going to focus on how the old Boys can ...
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Local Council best for effective governance-facilitator
The Facilitator of Democracy Sierra Leone, Alhaji Mohamed Warisay says that local council is the best way of running effective governance though it is expensive in maintaining the councillors. He made this statement during a one-day training of elected Councillors and Ward Committee Members in Constituencies 106, 107 and 109 in the Central and Western part of Freetown on their role and the ...
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No TB drugs at Kenema hospital
A nurse in charge of the Tuberculosis (TB) ward at the government hospital along Combema road in Kenema city Agnes Fatorma disclosed to Awoko that more patients are dying at the hospital because of lack of drugs. She says the TB ward at the Government hospital had ran out of drug supply since March 2013 and within this short period, the ward has experienced more deaths than before, when drugs ...
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Liberia Govt Silent Over Reported Sale of Japanese Donated Rice in Guinea
The Government of Liberia (GOL) through the Ministry of Commerce & Industry is yet to comment on the reported sale of a huge consignment Japanese donated rice to Liberia in neighboring Guinea. Last week, the Heritage, based on cogent reports obtained from officialdom, reported that the United Commodities Incorporated (UCI) recently sold huge consignment of the Japanese donated rice to ...
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Liberia Assets Declaration Ignored
The latest assets declaration report released by the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) on the verification of public officials' assets has exposed several officials who allegedly refused to allow their assets [already declared] to be verified by the LACC. The verification process by the LACC was intended to show the truthfulness of the assets that have been declared by officials of ...
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Liberia Gunmen Target Local Oil Installation
Tripoli - An armed group on Monday (May 20th) struck the Mellitah oil and gas complex west of Tripoli, wounding at least two guards. According to a source at the facility, armed assailants from "outside the area" mounted their attack in the early morning. They were able to seize arms and some twenty vehicles before taking off, Libya Herald reproted. Colonel Juma Abdul Jalil, ...
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Kenya Liberian President Sirleaf makes stop-over in Nairobi
Nairobi and was received at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by Cabinet Secretary for Devolution and Planning Ms. Ann Waiguru. Liberia's Honorory Consul in Kenya Mr. Kimani Benson Mathu was also in ...
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Kenya Cabinet Secretary meets Liberia President at Jomo Kenyatta Airport
The President was received by Devolution and Planning Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru. They held discussions at the Presidential Pavilion before the President and her entourage left the country for AddisAbaba the venue for the five-day AU meeting. The Liberia President was accompanied by Senior Officials in her Government including among others Hon. Lewis G. Brown, Liberian Information Minister ...
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Liberia Prince Johnson Accuses Sirleaf of Vote Rigging in 2011
Nimba County is said to be in a state of shock following a live radio confession by the county's Senior Senator Prince Y. Johnson (PYJ), detailing how he influenced elections officials in the county to cheat for his NUDP's candidates. He alleged that President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to whom he pledged his support in the November 2011 presidential runoff, was also instrumental in ...
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Liberia Audits Verifications Without Prosecution a Waste of Liberias Taxpayers Money
THE LIBERIA ANTI-CORRUPTION Commission released its Verification report Tuesday in which it is purported that some officials of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf-led government misrepresented the facts and lied in their declaration of assets. ONE OF THE MAJOR discoveries in the findings is that the managing director of the National Port Authority, Matilda Parker lied about the value of her assets and ...
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Liberia Defaults in Labor Law Decent Work Bill
Defects in both the current Labour Law and Draft Decent Work Bill 2010 have been discovered, with a call for action to bring Liberia in harmony with international standards and the practice on child labour. Attorney-At-Law Michael M. Allison, Managing Director of the BRICS Mano River Union Legal Consultants said there was disharmony between minimum age for education and work issue in Liberia. ...
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Liberia LTA Parliamentarians Make Suggestions to Improve Telecomunications Sector
The First Telecommunications Consumer Parliament organized by the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA), has ended in the Central Liberian provincial City of Gbarnga, Bong County, following a one-day session, with parliamentarians proffering several recommendations to improve the telecommunications sector in Liberia. In a 16-count recommendations presented at the end of the parliamentary ...
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Liberia Doubts Over Oil Discovery in Liberia - Did African Petroleum Stretch the Truth
Shares in Frank Timis' African Petroleum (AP) have fallen 90 percent over the past 12 months and reports of an alleged investigation by the National Stock Exchange of Australiaamidst claims of stocks dumping by senior AP executives have made international headlines. In February 2012, AP announced a major discovery in its Naria-1 Well offshore Liberia, causing a significant jump in its ...
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Liberia Foreign Technicians Expected for RIA
The Liberian Government has invited a technical delegation from Equatorial Guinea to Monrovia in early June after both governments agreed on May 21, 2013 to arrange the financing and construction of the Roberts International Airport (RIA) and social housing in Liberia. In a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in Malibo between Liberia and Equatorial Guinea on 21 May, both governments ...
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Liberia President Sirleaf Departs Liberia for AU Summit in Ethiopia Ticad V in Japan and Forbes Philanthropy Event in the United States
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf departed the country on Wednesday, May 22, for intergovernmental engagements in Ethiopia and Japan, and a philanthropy event sponsored by Forbes Magazine, in the United States. According to an Executive Mansion release, President Sirleaf departed for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the first leg of her trip, to attend the 21st Ordinary Session of the Summit of the ...
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Over Sierra Leone’s educational downturn… who takes the blame
Existing argument between the Ministry of Education and teachers of Sierra Leone over who takes the blame for the current educational melt-down took a new twist yesterday as students of Albert Academy held their Administration to ransom earlier this ...
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Minister opens workshop on Science Technology
The Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology has started a five-day training workshop in a bid to popularize science in the educational ...
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FIFA instructor to organize goalkeeping meeting
FIFA Goalkeeper's instructor, Prince Tamba Moses will organize a goalkeepers meeting on Friday 24th May 2013 at the football academy at Kingtom at about 9:00 ...
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Kandeh Rovers FC win 2013 Big League Soccer Championship IP
Salifu Samura opened with an early goal with a header from a defensive blunder. Wilberforce Strikers were totally unimpressive throughout the first half and the worst to happen to them was when their goal man was substituted for injury for an inexperienced colleague and immediately conceded a goal through Kandeh Rovers FC striker, Ibrahim Barrie before the ...
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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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