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By Mustapha Sesay

Pro-chancellor of University of Sierra Leone has commended the Institute of Public Administration and Management, IPAM, on its 33 years of existence on Tuesday.

Speaking at a ceremony marking the anniversary at the IPAM campus at Tower Hill, Reverend Canon Dr. Modupe Taylor-Pearce their Tower Hill said: “IPAM has done well and has a good reputation”. He urged the constituent college of the USL to accelerate to perfection.

By Mohamed Vandi in Pujehun

By Kenneth Thompson

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

The editor and managing editor of the Independent Observer newspaper were yesterday walked as free men again after spending 19 days in detention. Jonathan Leigh and Bai Bai Sesay had each been granted bail on Monday by a Freetown high court in the sum of Le 500 million and two sureties, one of whom must deposit their titled deed to the court Master and Registrar. They failed to meet the stiff bail bond which meant that they had to spend another night at the maximum security Pademba Road prison.

By Mustapha Sesay

Deputy Chairman of the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party has described as “paradoxical” President Ernest Bai Koroma’s recent sacking of the minister of works.

Dr. Prince Alex Harding told a news conference at the party’s headquarters on Wallace Johnson St. in Freetown that the sacking of Alimamy Petito Koroma by the ruling All People’s Congress (APC) government was “a paradox which discredited the infrastructural achievements of the president.”

Civil society organisations in the southern Moyamba district have called on Government through the Chief Justice Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh to assign a resident high court judge to the district. It followed a huge caseload of the rape of girls some of them as young as three years old with no judge to try the alleged rapists.

The organisations made the call at a bimonthly stakeholders’ meeting organised by the Centre for the Coordination of Youth Activities (CCYA) with support from Access for Security and Justice.

By Steven Bockarie Mansaray

Officials of the iron ore miner, African Minerals Limited (AML) last week held a meeting in Kondabaia Diang chiefdom in the northern Koinadugu district to inform the local and traditional authorities about their plan to start drilling and exploration work in the area.