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By Hajaratu Kalokoh

The telecommunications operator, Orange Sierra Leone, has launched a specialized internet package for school pupils across the country. The product known as ‘’Students pack’’ was launched on Wednesday at the St Joseph Secondary School in Freetown.

The company said the product is designed to expose pupils to data usage and to facilitate learning process at a lower cost.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

The Ministry of Health and the China Center for Disease Control (CDC) have held an engagement session with Paramount Chiefs in Kenema District on a planned survey on Lassa Fever carrying rodents.

Lassa Fever is a hemorrhagic fever disease that is transmitted by a host of vectors that include rats. Communities where rat is consumed are prone to the disease. In Sierra Leone, the eastern region has long been identified as part of the Lassa Fever Belt that also include about half a dozen other West African countries.

By Newman Anthony Levey in Bo

The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) Sierra Leone has cleared Supreme Minerals Corporation Sierra Leone Limited to commence mining gold in Valunia Chiefdom, Bo district.

EPA gave the company its Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) license over the weekend.

Copies of a correspondence sent to the company by the agency indicate that the EIA license is valid for twelve months from 03/02/2020 to 02/02/2021 and it’s for small scale gold mining.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

The Mayor of Kenema city, Thomas Baio has handed over the City Hall and Clock Tower projects to contractors.

Hema Trading and Construction Limited based in Freetown won the bid for the construction of the clock tower, whiles local construction company Demba Enterprises and General Construction won the bid for the completion of the unfinished city hall.

By Kemo Cham and Francis Murray

Sierra Leone and Guinea have vowed to strengthen bilateral relations, during an ongoing visit by Vice President Dr Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh to Conakry.

VP Jalloh’s visit comes days after an attack on the Guinean embassy in Freetown which led to the death of one person.

Police are investigating that incident which has been blamed on supporters of Guinean opposition leader, Sellu Dalen Diallo.   

By Mabinty M. Kamara

A new report launched on Monday has revealed that 67.3% of taxpayers in Sierra Leone have no confidence in the way tax proceeds are managed, hence their reluctance to pay.

By Kemo Cham

Eleven prisoners serving terms for various offenses in the Makeni Correctional Center were among 384 people who graduated from the University of Makeni (UniMak) over the weekend.

The first of its kind in Sierra Leone’s penitentiary system, the graduates undertook six months courses at certificate level in Community Development Studies & Entrepreneurship.

Some of the modules they undertook included Information Technology, Agriculture, and Psychosocial Counselling.