News

By Kenneth Thompson

Executive director, Health for All coalition, says his organisation is ever committed to ensuring accountability and transparency in Sierra Leone’s health sector as a way to reduce maternal and infant mortality.

Charles Mambu, after winning the “good practice programme monitoring award” told journalists in Freetown that he was grateful to UNFPA for acknowledging their work.

He said 22 countries were up for this year’s award but that his organisation emerged the winner for the west and central Africa regions.

Police on Thursday morning - 5 December - ran amok with protesting commercial transport drivers along the Lumley, Juba and Goderich areas, in the west of Freetown.

The riot left Operational Support Division (OSD) officer dead, according to police.

The protesters burned tyres and barricaded some areas including Femi Turner Driver, place of the private home of President Ernest Bai Koroma.

Peter Bayuku Conteh, TOurism Minister

By Bampia James Bundu

Minister of tourism and cultural affairs, Peter Bayuku Conteh has warned politicians against adversely using their political affiliations with ongoing development activities in the country.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi in Pujehun

World Vision Sierra Leone through its Gallinas Perri Area Development Program (ADP) has donated textbooks covering four core subject areas and sports items including footballs, trophies, school bells and football nets to 32 primary and two junior secondary schools in the chiefdom.

The acting ADP manager, Thomas Kpanabom said the books were on Mathematics, English, Social Studies and Integrated Science worth US$20,000 and cautioned beneficiary head teachers to take proper care of the items.

Miatta Kargbo, Minister of Health

By Steven Bockarie Mansaray

By Abdulai Gbla

Three Korean engineering and construction firms have expressed interest in the multimillion dollar construction of City Hall, already billed to be the tallest building in Freetown once completed.

The Freetown City Council (FCC) recently opened the bidding process for the said work at their offices on Wallace Johnson Street, which saw the three Korean companies and a few local ones taking part in the exercise.

By Kenneth Thompson

Chief administrator of the Freetown city council has revealed that the workers of the Freetown Waste Management will soon be paid off, adding that “Masada can employ them afterwards if they want to”.

Amadu Conteh told the last council meeting for this year at the Laura Dove school in Freetown that they had leased the equipment and facilities owned and occupied by the Freetown Waste Management company to Masada.