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By Mustapha Kamara Jnr

Read Initiative Sierra Leone (Rise), a network which comprises of four non-governmental organizations working to improve education in Sierra Leone, has started a two-day training workshop for teachers drawn from different primary and secondary schools across the country aimed at equipping them with skills to man libraries.

By Mustapha Kamara Jnr 

As a result of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Muslims in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia will for the second consecutive year not take part in the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.

The annual journey called Hajj is prescribed for all practicing Muslims as one of the five pillars of Islam.

According to international media reports last week, the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the custodians of the two Holy Mosques, has ruled out issuing visas to pilgrims from the countries affected by the epidemic.

For the first time in its more than one hundred year history the Fourah Bay College administration will soon receive documents from the government of Sierra Leone giving it freehold of the more than 400 acre land on which the college stands on Mount Aureol.

The decision was finalised at a meeting between college authorities led by Deputy Vice Chancellor Sahr Gbamanja and Ministry of Lands officials including Lands Minister Musa Tarawallie.

By Septimus Senessie 

In the afternoon of last week Friday there was chaos at the central business area in Koidu Town between commercial motorbike riders and police officers.

It left one of the motorbike riders suffering a bullet wound on the foot, the back windshield of the car of the Local Unit Commander of the Tankoro Police Division, Chief Superintendent David Sahid Koroma, broken and the police station attacked.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

Commercial motor drivers and traders including other road users in the Pujehun district, southern Sierra Leone, have expressed dissatisfaction over the 16 kilometer Pujehun and Bandajuma road construction.

They described as deplorable the Pujehun and Bo highway project being implemented by the First Tricon Company, commonly known as T-Mark, along the Pujehun and Bo highway.

By Mustapha Sesay

A group of Dutch investors on Tuesday signed several MoUs with officials of the government of Sierra Leone and some local companies aimed at fostering economic ties between the Netherlands and Sierra Leone.

The signings were done during a one day Round Table Economic Growth and Private Sector Development conference held at the Radisson Blu hotel in Aberdeen.

By Mustapha Sesay

The director of the Sierra Leone Legal Aid Board (LAB) Claire Carton Hancile has promised free legal aid to the less privileged and disadvantage persons in the country.

Mrs Hancile said Wednesday in parliament that they would ensure that all those who needed legal assistance get it as part of the mandate of the board. She was addressing the Legislative Committee with a Power Point presentation ahead of the planned commencement of their operations.