Bernadete Lahai, MInority Leader
By Crispina Cummings, Parliamentary Correspondent
Senegal for Salone trade fair
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.
Mystery human skeleton in Pujehun
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.
Howard University boosts FBC
By Mustapha Sesay
Howard University has donated assorted laboratory equipment to the chemistry department at Fourah Bay College in Freetown.
FBC gets multimedia equipment
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.
Tongo principal slams Education Minister
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).
AML records 200% increase in sales
Sierra Leone's main iron ore miner, African Minerals (AML) recorded a near 200% increase in its sale for 2013. According to a brief from the company, it sold 12.1 million metric tonnes (Mt) up from 4.1 Mt in 2012.
