News

By Bampia James Bundu

Live wires on Sunday evening cut from a faulty electricity pole in the east of Freetown, killing two people on the spot and leaving 25 others seriously injured and hospitalized at the Satellite Hospital at Rokupa.

Kadiatu Tunkara, 14, a class 6 pupil of the Sierra Leone Muslim Brotherhood primary school at Wellington and Sylvia Beatrice, a market woman, were electrocuted in a crowded business area at the Brima Lane market, east of Freetown.

By Steven Bockarie Mansaray

Police in Kabala have arrested 24-year-old Yeabu Mansaray on allegations of infanticide. She is alleged to have killed her newly-born baby and wrapped her inside a plastic bag and dumped it by a stream.

Yeabu lived in Kodala village in Wara Wara Yagala Chiefdom in Koinadugu district where she was in a relationship with one Samuel Sesay, a married man, following the death of her husband.

By Mustapha Sesay

Sierra Leone Book Trust (SALBOT) has donated over 4,000 text books to the University of Sierra Leone at the Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM) Tower Hill campus in Freetown.

Founder of SALBOT, Sallieu Turay, said “the books, which were carefully selected in line with curricular of the University of Sierra Leone, were made possible by our partners Books for Africa and former American Peace Corps volunteers to Sierra Leone”.

By Fasalie S. Kamara and Kenneth Thompson

Secretary General of the Sierra Leone Health Workers’ Union, Ansu Rashid Kalokoh says Masada cannot take over waste management in Freetown with the current arrangement in place.

He was speaking to Politico during a waste management workers’ protest over payment of three months of backlog salaries.

By Bampia James Bundu

One of the leading telecommunications company in Sierra Leone, Africell, has doled out 84 prizes to winners of the ongoing “Okada Bomba” promotion at the company’s headquarters at Wilberforce in Freetown.

Presenting the prizes to the winners, Africell’s Administrative Director, Abdul Aziz Gabisi commended them for successfully taking part in the ongoing promotion and encouraged more subscribers to take part in the promotion to enable them win wonderful prizes.

WAEC and AML workers pose for the camera

By Bampia James Bundu

Officials of the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, have inspected the adult literacy and numeracy programme being conducted for community people by iron ore miner, Africa Minerals, at Pepel in the Port Loko district.

By Bampia James Bundu

The Institute of Management, Accounting and Tourism (IMAT) has awarded full tuition scholarships to ten of their students and 60 pupils from twenty-five government-assisted senior secondary schools for the 2013/14 academic year through their community support programme.