By Mohamed T. Massaquoi
Police in Pujehun in the southern district of Sierra Leone have confirmed reports of the convening of a secrete trade fare at the Gbondapi community in the Kpanga Karbondeh chiefdom.
NaCSA’s Poverty reduction scheme: What the beneficiaries think
By Jenneh Braima
The National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA) is presently verifying 13,000 poor homes in four districts it has identified across Sierra Leone as “extremely poor households” for a 2-year project called: ‘Social Safety Nets Cash Transfers.’
The project entails cash transfer in the form of small and regular payment that will help beneficiary households to stabilise their basic consumption and avoid having to resort to negative coping mechanism when shocks occur.
188 years, FBC still grapples with water scarcity
By Allieu Sahid Tunkara
On Wednesday, 18 February, 2015, Fourah Bay College (FBC) celebrated its 188th year of existence. The college which was founded by the Church Missionary Society in 1827 to mainly train teachers and missionaries, according to historians, was the first of its kind in West Africa.
Le 1 Billion for SLPP complex
By Mohamed T. Massaquoi
The main opposition Sierra Leone People's Party on Sunday raised more than a billion leones in donations and pledges towards the construction of its regional headquarters complex in the southern headquarter town of Bo.
‘Last adjournment’ at court martial
By Allieu Sahid Tunkara
The Judge Advocate presiding over the trial of thirteen soldiers of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces for alleged mutiny has warned that the court would not grant another adjournment after Monday, February 23, 2015.
Otto During was speaking after the prosecution team made another adjournment application on the grounds that the lead state prosecutor Gerard Soyei was ill.
Sierra Leone Ebola audit report, Parliamentary audit in 10 days
There are indications that the powerful Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of parliament would meet in about ten days time to start their enquiry into the Auditor General's report for 2013 and the recent report into the management of funds used in the fight against the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.
SLAJ’s Yellow Ribbon campaign
The fight against Ebola appears to be close to being won but the risk of fallen victim of complaisance is also high. It is in this regard that the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has launched a campaign geared towards keeping the momentum against the viral disease that has claimed closed to 10, 000 lives, mostly in the three hardest hit countries – Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
