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By Kemo Cham

President Ernest Bai Koroma has called on Sierra Leoneans to reconsider traditional practices that impacted negatively on health as the country was declared free of the Ebola epidemic over the week end.

Declaring a 'new beginning', the president on Saturday urged the nation to learn from the lessons entailed in the fight against the epidemic. He singled out paying close attention to details as fundamental attribute worth retaining.

By Mustapha Sesay  

The United Nations children agency, UNICEF, is advocating for children`s participation in government discussion to draw up the 2016 budget.

UNICEF says it will be supporting 28 boys and girls from across the country to meet with the Minister of Finance and Economic Development and members of parliament in Freetown.

By Kemo Cham

Ahead of the highly anticipated event marking the official end of the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, the head of the National Ebola Response Center (NERC) said it has ordered the military to tightened security at the border with neighboring Guinea.

Major (rtd) Alfred Palo Conteh, Chief Executive Officer of the NERC, said the Eleventh Infantry Battalion in Kambia District which shares a very busy border crossing point with Guinea, had been instructed to ensure that anyone entering from Guinea be subjected to through screening.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

The lead council for the plaintiff in the recent matter of the Vice President sacking has questioned the educational background of the Acting Chief Justice Valesius Victor Thomas.

In his Freetown office Charles Francis Margai was not fearful, he was confident and bold, but he refused to be put it on record as he cast his big doubt over the education of the most senior justice of the Supreme Court.

By Crispina Taylor

Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Kelfala Marah, has enlisted the support of lawmakers in the monitoring of development projects.

Marah said monitoring will help in identifying non-performing contractors who could be blacklisted in the event of feature contracts.

By Crispina Taylor

Sierra Leone`s lawmakers have kicked against the idea of conducting four elections at one go as was the case in the last general elections in 2012.

MPs on Wednesday opposed the proposal put forward to parliament by the National Electoral Commission as part of a presentation of its 2015-2019 electoral cycle.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

The parents of a nine-year old girl allegedly raped by a survivor of the deadly Ebola virus disease are in fear that she may have contracted the virus.

The alleged incident occurred in Tankoro Chiefdom in the eastern Kono district of Sierra Leone.

The accused, a 19-year old chap we will only name by his first name (Komba), who reportedly survived the disease early this year, allegedly raped Fatmata (not her real name) by luring her into his bedroom with biscuit.