By Septimus Senessie in Kono
FBC students visit Sierra Leone Parliament
By Crispina Lois Cummings
Dozens of students from the Department of Economics and Commerce of Fourah Bay College yesterday went on a study visit to parliament to enlighten themselves on the Sierra Leone budget.
Welcoming the students and their lecturer, Clerk of Parliament, Ibrahim Sesay introduced them to the 1991 Constitution. He also explained to them the different types of budget and looked at the budgets of different countries and the functions of the standing committees in parliament.
SLPP national confab next week – JOB assures
By Bampia James Bundu
The outgoing Chairman and Leader of the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), John Oponjo Benjamin says the SLPP convention will hold as scheduled on 16 - 17 August this year.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Politico, Benjamin said they were hoping to get a successful and peaceful convention assuring that all arrangements had been made to ensure that outcome.
Hunter kills man for deer
By Richard Ngevao in Bo
Police in the southern district headquarter town of Bo are investigating a hunter, Alie Barrie, who allegedly shot and killed his co-hunter, Ali Koroma, while they were out hunting around Ngeindema village in the Bumpeh Gao chiefdom.
Works starts to review Sierra Leone’s constitution
The Chairman of the Constitutional Review Committee (CRC), Justice Edmund Cowan has appealed to its members to put Sierra Leone ahead of all other interests.
Speaking yesterday at the inaugural meeting of the committee, Justice Cowan said “We should be one. We should be united in whatever we do. We are individuals but our duty is to this nation…”
He went on that the 80-member committee should be mindful of “what we do here” urging that they should strive to “get the results the people want”.
