Regional manager north of the Anti-Corruption Commission, ACC has warned a meeting of staff of the country’s roads authority, SLRA in Makeni against possible instances of corruption that were often associated with roads infrastructure.
ACC asks NRA to reject corrupt demands
ACC has said in Makeni that all government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) must be ridded off corrupt practices, while addressing what it described as “customised meeting with staff of the National Revenue Authority, NRA.
Regional Manager north, Yankuba Conteh, welcomed the call maintained that his office was crucial to ensuring that government gets the much needed revenue to undertake development projects.
Who Killed this journalist?
SLAJ Press Release
No justice for slain journalist, one year on
Freetown 11 June 2012 – It is exactly one year to the day since the killing of journalist Ibrahim Foday of the daily Exclusive Newspaper on 12 June 2011 and his killers are yet to face justice. SLAJ will hold a candlelight memorial this week to mark his death.
London Mining donates rice to landowners
Further demonstrating their commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility and to the communities in which they operate, London Mining recently donated two hundred bags of rice to landowners and farmers in villages affected by its mining operations.
Speaking for London Mining Desmond Doherty, Community Relations and Resettlement Manager, explained that the donations were meant to support villages like Chendetha, Robaka, Robayla, Magbenthey, Kontha, Maforki, Rogbaneh and Magberie, whose food production activities have been affected due to the use of their land for mining.
AML on ‘green economy’
African Minerals was part of this year’s World Environment Day, with a gleam of activities that culminated in the bringing together of school children to plant over 1,000 trees across its operations, north of the country.
Man charged with murdering his parents
By Umaru Fofana
When Dr Kekuda Bangura went to study in Russia and later fell in love with and married Sevectina the two probably never expected they would die on the same day under such circumstances. In what reads like pages torn from a Greek tragedy, or indeed a scene from a horror movie, state prosecutors say they were both bludgeoned to death by their own son, Edward.
