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TRUMP SURVIVES ASSASINATION ATTEMPT BUT WHAT’S GOING ON?

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SONGO-MOYAMBA ROAD

Soon we will be driving on a very good road from Songo Junction to the MABANG BRIDGE. Thanks to the government of Sierra Leone and the European Union. We don’t know the intricacies of how the EU funds those projects but we were told that the funding was initially earmarked for the MABANG BRIDGE but they probably saved some of the cash from the bridge project to be able to do the stretch of road leading to the bridge from the Freetown Masiaka Highway.

A SECURITY UPDATE TO GET SIERRA LEONEANS THINKING

As soon as we saw the flyer announcing a security update from C. Bah, we knew something big was just around the corner. The fact that C. Bah was going to deliver this update himself in the prime news of the state broadcaster, absolutely raised the stakes even higher. When the update finally came, it really lived up to its billing.

QUEEN FATIMA STEPS INTO THE SLPP LEADERSHIP DEBATE

Over the last SIX years the Queen has developed a reputation of somebody who is not afraid of speaking up on issues she feels strongly about. She has faced criticism many times but gives as much as she gets from time to time.

AUSTIN DEMBY AND THE REFORMS IN THE HEALTH SECTOR

The other day a group of carefully selected media people had the opportunity to listen to the Minister of Health at a town hall meeting organized by his ministry, specifically for journalists. It wasn’t what we media people call a classic news conference, that’s what made their approach to engagement with the media unique. It’s probably the first. The minister had a lot of issues to deal with.

WHAT’S THE LATEST WITH THAT KUSH-IN-UNDERPANTS PRISON WARDER?

We saw the picture on social media of a prison warder being stripped down to his underpants by his colleagues to discover a load of KUSH which we were told he was attempting to smuggle into the prison yard. Obviously he wanted to sell it to inmates. People are outraged that even with a State of Emergency in place and a huge national outcry over the devastating consequences of KUSH smoking; we have a prison warder using extraordinary measures to take the banned substance to a prison yard.

BIG MCC MONEY TAKES ANOTHER STEP TOWARDS SALONE

On Wednesday evening news broke that the Millennium Challenge Corporation, MCC, has finally approved over 400m US dollars to do something about electricity in this country. There are still a few steps to take but a major push has just taken place and social media is awash with comments and perspectives.