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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two companies next to Oraco Resources, with some 50 square kilometer concessions in Nimini Hills in the Kono district, east of Sierra Leone, have reported significant findings which demonstrate a tremendous potential in the area. 

In a press release, one of these companies, Stellar Diamonds, PLC, announced that it had completed the final bulk sampling of diamond grades and values from its Lion-5 kimberlite dyke at their site in Kono.