By Bampia James Bundu
The Independent Radio Network (IRN) has supported five radio stations across the country with five new transmitters and Studio links to enhance their radio frequencies.
Mercury International donates to Ebola quarantined homes
The chairman Mercury International Mr. Samir K Hassanyeh and his core team made a swift donation of food items and other provisions as support for Ebola quarantined homes, through the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children`s Affairs, on Thursday 19th February 2015.
The package worth millions of leones was handed over to the minister, Alhaji Moijueh Kiakia and his deputy, Mr Mustapha Bai Attila.
Ebola Audit: ACC, Parliament clash in Sierra Leone
By Mustapha Sesay
The Auditor General`s report on how funds meant for fighting the Ebola epidemic, released last Thursday, continues to generate heated debate even after parliament slammed a ban on reporting on its details.
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has vowed to pursue everyone named in the report but in doing so it has found itself on a collision course with the parliament. It emerged Wednesday that the Commission this week summoned 39 people named in the report for questioning.
Vice President calls for unity
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
When he embarked on his Ebola social mobilisation tour and visited his own chiefdom of Sandor, Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana called on his people in the Kono District “to beunited and forget about pettiness”.
He told his people at the Kayima town court barriethat “a house divided against itself will not stand” and that “it is only with unity and family solidarity among political heads, traditional leaders and the ordinary man that we can bring tangible development to the district.”
Ebola vaccine trial starts in March
By Kemo Cham & Allieu Sahid Tunkara
Sierra Leone will commence the long talked about trial of Ebola vaccine next month.
The trial dubbed the Sierra Leone Ebola Vaccine Evaluation Study (SLEVES) will be carried out as collaboration between the University of Sierra Leone (USL), the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), and the United States Centers for Diseases Control (CDC), which is funding it.
The West African Ebola epidemic which erupted early last year has claimed nearly 10, 000 lives, mostly in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea.
Chimps kill chief in Kono
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
A 35-year-old village headman of Yorwabu village in the Nimikoro Chiefdom, Kono District, eastern Sierra Leone, was allegedly “attacked and killed” by a group of wild chimpanzees.
Chief Komba Koagbanda had set out to enquire whether it was true a report he had had that some chimps had earlier chased one of his sisters away from a nearby stream where she had gone to fetch water.
Parliament approves interconnection Agreements
By Crispina Taylor
Parliament in Sierra Leone on Tuesday approved an 83 million Euros agreement for the construction of a power transmission line that will improve electricity generation in four West African countries, including Sierra Leone.
