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By Bampia James Bundu

Bike dealer and proprietor of Shalimar Trading Sierra Leone, Mouss Mroue, has yesterday presented an ultra modern ambulance to the government through President Ernest Bai Koroma.

Making the presentation at State House, the country’s sole dealer in TVS motorbikes explained that the ambulance was worth $42000 (forty two thousand dollars), adding that it was a 2015 model from Japan.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

The leading state counsel in the team currently prosecuting a case against 13 soldiers for alleged mutiny has fallen ill yesterday shortly before proceedings commenced at court martial on Wilkinson Road in Freetown.

An agreement was reached at State House on Wednesday between rival SLFA factions for their much-talked about all-inclusive congress to be held in the third week of April 2015. For the second time this week the football managers and administrators met President Ernest Bai Koroma in an attempt to break the deadlock over the leadership of the organisation.

By Mabinty Kamara

The Jalloh Terrace community in the east end of Freetown was in shock on the morning of Wednesday 28th January when the body of Obai Sesay was found dangling from a rope in his room in Kuntoloh.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

The Independent Radio Network (IRN), the largest network of radio stations in Sierra Leone, will begin broadcasting its programmes to an international audience at the end of January, 2015.

This has been made possible through the donation of radio link equipment worth Le 752, 500,000 (Seven Hundred and Fifty Two Million, Five Hundred thousand Leones) from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

By Mustapha Kamara Jnr

Operations Coordinator at Sierra Leone’s National Ebola Response Center, Steven Gaojia, has revealed that there would be no compensations in the form of benefits or whatsoever to frontline health workers in the fight against Ebola.

Speaking to the journalists yesterday in Freetown, Gaojia explained that that would be the case because most of the workers were volunteers and had been receiving hazard payment or risk allowances whiles performing respective duties.