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By Aminata Phidelia Allie

A charitable organization that seeks to empower unfortunate teenage mothers by way of educating them has been launched in Freetown, after it was first established in more than five districts since early last year.

Speaking at the official launch of the PeagieWoobay Scholarship Fund  in Freetown, founder of the organization, Peagie Foday, (nee Woobay),  said her dream was to make a change in the lives of as many young girls as possible through education.

Peace Mothers, a group of rural women brought together by Fambul Tok International, have gone beyond traditional reconciliation approaches in post-war Sierra Leone to mobilising and coordinating farm and business women in the north.

The women groups, drawn from 16 sections in Bombali and all 11 sections in the Koinadugu districts, were being trained in business sustainability measures and approaches, values and principles so they could pull individual resources and help themselves with little supervision.

Dr Julius Spencer

The Managing Editor of Premier Media Consultancy, Dr Julius Spencer and the editor of his Premier News newspaper, Alusine Sesay were yesterday called in by the police Criminal Investigations Department over an article published in the newspaper last week which police deem criminally libellous.

A Nigerian Graduate in America

An analysis of census data and several local surveys have shown that Nigerians don’t just value education but surpass all other ethnic groups and nationalities in the United States of America when it comes to obtaining degrees.

By Bampia James Bundu 

President Ernest Bai Koroma yesterday urged the Sierra Leone Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, SLEITI, to ensure the country successfully complies with the process now. This, 13 months after the country had been suspended by the Board of the EITI in Oslo.

By Bampia James Bundu

Executive Director of Centre for the Coordination of Youth Activities, CCYA has urged the Constitutional Review Committee to include vulnerable groups in the review process.

Ngolo Katta told a one day national consultative engagement on Sierra Leone’s 1991 constitutional review process in Freetown that committee members could not do it alone.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi.
A 17-month-long conflict which effectively divided Kpaka chiefdom in the southern Pujehun district that led to the suspension of the Paramount Chief has been resolved. It followed mediation efforts by a peace-building organisation, Pujehun Youth for Development (KNSL/PYD) who selected some stakeholders to resolve the impasse.

The conflict had led to an uprising by some residents of the chiefdom who were opposed to their Paramount Chief, Alhaji John Sallia Rogers on allegations he was disrespectful to them.