By Septimus Senessie in Kono
NPA may lose $14 mn JICA money
By Mustapha Sesay & Kenneth Thompson
The Legal Adviser at Sierra Leone's central National Power Authority has told Politico that encroachment on their land at Goderich in the outskirts of Freetown may scupper their chances of implementing a US$ 14 million project funded under the Japanese International Corporation Agency (JICA) project to construct substations for the supply of electricity to the area.
272 schools shut down in Pujehun
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.
4 more witnesses testify in Mahmoud Tarawally case
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Four more witnesses yesterday 30 September testified in the preliminary investigations into the alleged rape case against the sacked minister of education, Mahmoud Tarawally.
