News

By Kenneth Thompson

A nongovernmental organisation working to eliminate child labour in Sierra Leone has met a select group of journalists to sensitise them on child labour issues and the need to identify and report on them and to discuss two legal instruments dealing with the protection of children in the country – the Employer and Employed Act of 1947 and the Child Rights Act of 2007.

Karimu Conteh from the Ministry of Labour urged the journalists to study the two instruments and be vigilant to report when the rights of children are violated.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

By Fasalie S. Kamara

By Crispina Cummings

By Mustapha Sesay & Kenneth Thompson

The Legal Adviser at Sierra Leone's central National Power Authority has told Politico that encroachment on their land at Goderich in the outskirts of Freetown may scupper their chances of implementing a US$ 14 million project funded under the Japanese International Corporation Agency (JICA) project to construct substations for the supply of electricity to the area.

By Mohamed T. Massaquoi

All 272 primary schools in Pujehun district have, effective today Tuesday 1 October, shut down indefinitely, according to the spokesman of the aggrieved head teachers.

Thomas Musa Conteh said this was in reaction to the “deliberate refusal” by the district council to pay their school fee subsidies for 1st and 2nd terms of the 2012 and 2013 academic year.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono