By Aminata Phidelia Allie
MMCET lecturers join strike
Lecturers at the Milton Margai College of Education and Technology (MMCET) have joined their colleagues at Fourah Bay College and Njala University on an industrial strike action.
President of the Academic Staff Association of MMCET, Gibril Thullah told Politico that they agreed yesterday, Wednesday 13 March to commence their sit-down strike action because of “several grievances”.
Koidu electricity work in shambles - say CSOs
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
The District Coordinator of a civil society organization based in Kono has expressed dissatisfaction over the “long abandonment of the electricity work in the district”, describing it as “a political gimmick and a total discrimination and marginalization by the government of Sierra Leone against the people of Kono especially in the equal distribution of development and resources in the country over the past years.”
FBC, UK Varsity on Special Court legacy
By Mustapha Sesay
The Department of Mass Communication, Fourah Bay College and the Centre for International Media Analysis, Research and Consultancy, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom on Wednesday hosted one-day seminar on the social and legal impact of the trials of the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone on the peoples of Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Varsity postpones convocation for second time
Prof. Jonas Redwood-Sawyer, Vice Chancellor and Principal of USL
The University of Sierra Leone has postponed by two weeks convocation or graduation ceremony for students who completed their courses last year.
The new date is 6 April 2013.
Airtel, IBM "fall out" in Sierra Leone
RVS Bhullar, Managing Director of Airtel Sierra Leome
In the last one week, usually reliable sources in Freetown and in New Delhi have been intimating Politico that the Indian mobile phone operator, Airtel has terminated the services of IBM in running their Call Centre and I.T. departments in Sierra Leone.
