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President Ellen Sirleaf and Liberias Comeback
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, left, meet with Chief of Police Marc Armblah at the police academy in Monrovia, Liberia Thursday, Aug. 13, ...
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Sierra Leone’s NATCOM is breaking bold new ground
The chairman of Sierra Leone's National Telecommunication Commission (NATCOM) – Siray A. Timbo, was recently lauded in Istanbul, Turkey, for the bold steps he is taking in addressing the country’s ICT regulation challenges. Mr. Timbo (Photo) was attending the 8th International Electronic Communications Regulators Conference, where he was commended for his "unwavering ...
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Judge gives 72hrs for lawyer’s papers as Afri radio goes to Appeal Court
Appeal Court Judge, Justice E.B. Edwards on Friday ordered the lawyers representing African Media Sierra Leone Ltd and the Independent Media Commission (IMC) to submit their written arguments and all relevant documents relating to the cancellation of Afri Radio’s license, within seventy-two hours. Counsel Yada Williams and Osman Jalloh representing the appellant (African Media Sierra ...
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AIG launched Operation Watch your Neighbour
The Sierra Leone Police (SLP) Kenema division has on Tuesday 14th May 2013 launched a new operation titled "watch your neighbor" in the regional headquarter town of Kenema and its environs. The Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) east Sorie B. Kargbo told the press before commencing the raid that the exercise is going to be a continuous food for the police in the region. He ...
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IMC to award Journalists on 24th May
The Independent Media Commission (IMC) will on Friday 24th May, 2013 at the Bank Complex in Freetown, award Journalists who submitted their work on various fields of reporting. The 7th National Media Awards (NMA), according to the organisers, there will be spectacular events which will showcase journalists talents of what they have submitted to the Commission. Individual Winners will receive ...
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Sierra Leonean arrested over fake passport in Bangkok
A Sierra Leonean Kelvin Sesay is among five Africans who were arrested in Bangkok over the use of fake passports. According to press reports from The Post, "The five men were apprehended immediately after they arrived in the resort town of Prachuap Khiri Khan province in a van from Bangkok. They were identified as Angelr Ibekwa, 29, a Nigerian; Seyyid Zena Abdulai, 33, from Ghana; Kelvin ...
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GTBank Ltd Opens Wellington Branch
Guaranty Trust Bank (SL) Limited, a leading bank in Sierra Leone is set to open its twelfth branch on Monday May 20, 2013. Housed in the Old ATC Compound at the Wellington Industrial Estate in the East-end of Freetown, this new branch will serve its numerous customers in the area and extend its brand of excellent banking services to all and sundry in Sierra Leone. In the last two years, the ...
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Vitafoam to start mattress production soon
The new Vitafoam mattress at Hastings will start production soon. According to the Acting Country Manager of Vitafoam Odunfeyitimi Olaoluwa,the factory which will be producing about 1000 mattresses a day will also serve the Mano River Union sub-region with 600,000 mattresses a year. He made this disclosure while speaking with the Minister of Trade and Industry Usu Boie Kamara who was on a ...
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Two African First Ladies join fight against teenage pregnancy
As a way of reducing teenage pregnancy and early marriage in Sierra Leone, the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dame Dr Patience Goodluck Jonathan has joined the First Lady of Sierra Leone Sia Nyama Koroma to reduce teenage pregnancy and early marriage in Sierra Leone. Supported by UNFPA, the Office of the First Lady, last week, ended a two-day high level conference on the ...
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“ We are grateful for EFSL” Community stakeholders
Residents and community stakeholders in the Gombaun [Malen] Village in the Pujehun District Southern Sierra Leone have heaped praises on Evangelical Fellowship of Sierra Leone [EFSL] for providing them with educational facilities worth Two Hundred and Fifty Million Leones [Le: 250,000,000] during a handing over ceremony that attracted eminent personalities. The educational facilities among ...
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Prosecutors seek 16 years for man on trial for holding Berlusconi aide
Silvio Berlusconi 's accountant and wife in 2012. The prosecutors also asked the court in Milan for prison terms of eight to 10 years each for Leone's three accomplices, all charged with holding Giuseppe Spinelli, 71, and his wife Anna hostage in their home for 11 hours and forcing them to call Berlusconi to try to get 35 million euros (about $46 million) in ransom last October, ANSA ...
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Liberia Bishop Francis Dies
Archbishop Michael Kpakala Francis, the outspoken cleric who became the conscience of the society during the tyranical regime of late President Samuel Doe and the tumultous years of the civil war, died at his 8th Street residence yesterday following a protracted illness, aged 77. The shocking news of Bishop Francis' death, who was regarded as indifatigable fighter for peace and justice in ...
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Liberia Give Jobs to Liberians - Pro-Tempore Urges Concessionaires
Concession companies and other foreign investments in the country have been urged to use the expertise of Liberians in carrying out their duties. At the Grand Royal Hotel where he delivered a statement at the official unveiling ceremony of the partnership between the ROSNA Service Inc. and ANSAMBLE, two local and international catering companies, Sen. Gbezohngar M. Findley, Senate President ...
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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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