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By Politico writer

Peace is only achievable through individual efforts and accepting each other, John Caulker, Executive Director of Fambul Tok, has told a group of community mediators.

Fambul Tok is a local Non-Governmental Organisation which uses community engagement in securing peaceful co-existence. It does so by training people to serve as peace ambassadors.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

Members of the national executive of the main opposition party are planning to issue out a public statement warning Dr Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella from talking in any media forum about the party whose presidential ticket for the next election he wants to contest for.

By Kemo Cham

Alpha Timbo will have building institutions and capacitating Sierra Leoneans to man them as his top must priorities, the presidential aspirant of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) has said.

He said well functioning institutions were relevant to nation building and that those who managed them were also crucial, hence the need for human capacity development.

Timbo was speaking as he presented his plan for the nation and party as campaign for the flag bearership contest for the SLPP hits up.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

Former Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) 2012 presidential ticket candidate has launched an anthology of his newspaper writings in the column “Ponder My Thoughts”.

Andrew Keili, also an executive director at the engineering company, CEMATs, titled his book after the name of his column. The book is a compilation of articles on national issues, which were written and published in 2013 in newspaper syndication.

By Mustapha Sesay

A show down between the media regulator and the umbrella journalist association is eminent following the indefinite suspension slammed on two media entities.

The Independent Media Commission (IMC) last week ordered the popular radio talk show Monologue and the Democrat newspaper suspended pending investigations on possible breach of the media code of practices.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

Crown Technical University College is encouraging Sierra Leoneans to go in for technical training at tertiary institutes where formal education at universities such as Fourah Bay College appears impossible to acquire.

Dr Andrew Curtis, the proprietor of Crown, as the institute is also known, even thinks the job market needs more technically trained employees than people with formal qualifications in disciplines such as Law and Political Science.

By Mustapha Sesay

The Centre for Coordination of Youth Activities (CCYA) has engaged youth groups from the 14 districts across the country in a one-day dialogue forum aimed at contributing to the ongoing constitutional review process.

Ngolo Katta, Executive Director of CCYA, said at the conference held at the conference hall of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) that one of his organization`s critical objectives was to engage youth to be part of nation building.