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By Mohamed T Massaquoi

A non-governmental organisation, PaRD Sierra Leone, in partnership with Growth Centre has presented certificates to 175 young people across the district at the end of a three-month training in agricultural production.

Speaking to Politico, the PaRD Sierra Leone director, Mahmoud Borbor Kargbo said the training was designed to help young people become "useful agents in development initiative".

Bernadete Lahai, MInority Leader

By Crispina Cummings, Parliamentary Correspondent

15 Senegalese business enterprises have confirmed their participation at this year's month-long trade fair and exhibition in Freetown which opens on 26 March, according to Ralph Ese Donnu Sawyer, Sierra Leone's Information Attaché in Dakar.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi
Police in Pujehun have confirmed the discovery of a skeleton believed to be of one Mohamed Sheriff who disappeared in 2012 following a hunting expedition, but they have fallen short of being so categorical.

The discovery was made by farmers in a forest along Ngagama village in the Kpanga Karbondeh chiefdom.

By Mustapha Sesay

Howard University has donated assorted laboratory equipment to the chemistry department at Fourah Bay College in Freetown.

By Mustapha Sesay

The Chinese-run Confucius Institute at Fourah Bay College has donated two sets of multimedia equipment to ease the University’s communication problem.

By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema

The Principal of in King Fahad Junior Secondary School in Tongo, in the eastern Kenema district has condemned the decision by the Minister of Education that only pupils with a certain aggregate passes at the National Primary School Education (NPSE) certificate will be allowed to write the junior secondary Basic Education Certificates Examination (BECE).