Chernoh Bah speaking at Roosevelt University in Chicago
OCTEA Diamond Group displaces over 100 in Tongo
A building in Tongo damaged by the activities of OCTEA Diamond Group
By Mohamed Vandi just back from Tongo
NEC needs 400 vehicles, Nigeria donates 20 Hilux and $ 1 Mln
The Nigerian government has donated 20 Toyota Hilux vehicles to Sierra Leone's National Electoral Commission (NEC), according to the NEC Western Area Commissioner, Miatta French.
She said the vehicles arrived last week and would be commissioned on Thursday.
PMDC dismisses court ruling
By Abubakarr Bah
People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) has dismissed a recent ruling against the party by the Appeals Court in Freetown, overturning a decision it earlier upheld to withdraw an injunction preventing the party from holding its convention.
APC "deceitful" about death penalty
By Alpha Daramy Sesay and Aminata Phidelia Allie
Member of Parliament and publicity secretary of the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party has dismissed government’s position to have repealed the death penalty as “deceitful” and “total rubbish”.
IMC unveils plan, media maps
Chairman of the Independent Media Commission, Rod Mac Johnson has said in Freetown that his organisation’s three –year Strategic Plan for 2013 – 2015 “provides a roadmap on where we wish to go and how; it provides donor and local development partners that wish to work with us a sense of how we view ourselves and what we deem as strategic in the next three years.”
"6-3-4-4 is cosmetic" – Bobson Sesay
The architect of Sierra Leone's 6-3-3-4 educational system, Alfred Bobson Sesay has described the modified 6-3-4-4 system as “cosmetic”.
The new system, which started this week, adds an extra year to senior secondary education.
