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By Septimus Senessie in Kono

As a way of promoting quality education in deprived communities, the charity Action Aid International has awarded 40 scholarships to 40 lucky pupils who had the 40 best results on the 2014 National Primary School Examinations (NPSE).

By Mustapha Kamara Jnr

The Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) and the National Ebola Response Center (NERC) are insisting that a specimen from a stillborn baby delivered at the Aberdeen Women Center (AWC) last month is Ebola positive.

The incident caused a row between the NERC and the hospital which accused the former of violating protocol and questioned the authenticity of test result.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

The Sierra Leone (SLAJ) has denied inability to account for money it secured for sensitization about the Ebola outbreak.

A social media reports alleged that the umbrella journalist association had failed to account for a sum of Le300 m given to it to raise awareness about the deadly Ebola virus across the country.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

Sierra Leone’s media regulatory body, the Independent Media Commission (IMC), has challenged a High Court ruling in a matter between the commission and the Independent Observer Newspaper.

Justice Allan Halloway delivered his ruling on Friday in Freetown, noting that the IMC had been accurate in the procedures it used in dealing with the matter before the case was taken to court by the newspaper’s lawyer and that the commission had not violated the principles of natural justice in the matter.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement, an international organisation comprising 56 countries, has disclosed plans to scale up the fight against malnutrition in Sierra Leone.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

The Kono District council has condemned the report of the 2013 Comprehensive Local Government Performance Assessment System (CLoGPAS), which was released in March this year by the Decentralization Secretariat (DecSec) of the ministry of local government.

DecSec’s report is annual, and focuses on the performances of the 19 local councils in the country.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Defence counsel in the on-going trial at the Court Martial presided over by Judge Advocate Alhaji Abu Bakarr King has tendered in court a letter from the Ministry of defence as part of the defence`s evidence.

The letter which was authored by Major Taluva in the Defence Ministry   requested that the accused, Major Philip Shenks, face summary dealings in respect of the allegation for which he (Shenks) was standing trial at the court martial.