17 year-old arrested for unsafe abortion
September 4, 2015 By Victoria Saffa Lucy Mallay, 17, has been arrested by the police in Bo city, southern Sierra Leone for the reported death of one Tenneh Moriba, following an alleged illegal...
View ArticleGuinean envoy hails President Koroma
September 4, 2015 By Memunatu Bangura Guinea’s Ambassador to Sierra Leone, His Excellency Foday Camara, has hailed the leadership and successes of President Ernest Bai Koroma, describing him as one of...
View ArticleSWASAL gets standing committees
September 7, 2015 By Sahr Morris Jr. The executive and membership of the Sports Writers Association of Sierra Leone (SWASAL) last Thursday, at a general meeting, approved five standing committees. The...
View ArticleSierra Rutile upgrades Mineral Separation Plant to meet mine’s expansion plans
September 8, 2015 Sierra Rutile’s Mineral Separation Plant (MSP) has a long and productive history with the company and its soon-to-be completed multi-million dollar upgrade guarantees will continue to...
View ArticleRed Cross donates 24 motorbikes to Koinadugu
September 8, 2015 By Alusine Sesay Through their Community Event Based Surveillance project, the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society last Friday donated 24 motorbikes to volunteer supervisors in the...
View ArticleNational Family Planning campaign launched today
September 8, 2015 By Ibrahim Tarawallie The Ministry of Health and Sanitation, in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), will today launch the National Family Planning campaign...
View ArticleWABEAN holds dialogue session on local councils budget & taxation
September 8, 2015 By Victoria Saffa With support from Christian Aid, through Budget Advocacy Network (BAN), the Western Area Budget Education and Advocacy Network (WABEAN) over the weekend ended a...
View ArticleAgriculture Ministry conducts induction training in procurement for staff
September 8, 2015 By Memunatu Bangura The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security last Friday (5 September) conducted an induction training for their staff in new procurement guidelines....
View ArticleSecuring the Next Generation
September 8, 2015 Answers to some of the questions and concerns raised by partners before and during the review of the Institute of Governance Reform (IGR) 2015-2019 Strategic Plan: How do you want to...
View ArticleTHERE WILL ALWAYS BE SOMETHING TO WRITE ABOUT
September 8, 2015 By: Winstanley R. Bankole Johnson The captioned was a response by Eng. Andrew Kamor Keili to one of many questions posed to him during a mock real-time electronic media interview...
View ArticleAirtel to sponsor 50 women entrepreneurs
September 8, 2015 By Victoria Saffa One of the leading mobile telecommunication companies in the country, Airtel, will be providing start-up capital and other resources to 50 women entrepreneurs across...
View ArticleLe100m bail for KKY bodyguards
September 8, 2015 By Hawa Amara Ten private bodyguards of Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella were yesterday granted Le10 million bail each by Magistrate Komba Kamanda, presiding at the Freetown Magistrates’...
View ArticleAberdeen demolition: - Mother and child made to sleep in open
Mother and child made to sleep in open September 9, 2015 By Alusine Sesay Hawa Kabba is a lactating mother who resides at Crab Town in the Aberdeen creek.The demolition of her home by the Ministry of...
View ArticleCARL reacts on acquittal of former Deputy Minister on rape
September 9, 2015 By Abu-Bakarr Sheriff The Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL) yesterday (8 September) said in a statement that the acquittal of Mahmoud Tarawalie, former deputy Minister...
View ArticleGerihun flooding: residents account!
September 9, 2015 By Mohamed Massaquoi from Bo District A Concord Times investigative team was in the southern region to investigate what may have caused the flooding disaster in the town of Gerihun...
View ArticleSLIEPA launches improved packaging project
September 9, 2015 By Victoria Saffa The Sierra Leone Import and Export Promotion Agency (SLIEPA) has launched a project to increase the country’s export competitiveness through improved product...
View ArticleIn police officers manslaughter case… - Wife tells court that deceased was...
Wife tells court that deceased was unable to walk September 9, 2015 By Hawa Amara Hannah Brown, wife of deceased Francis Haffner, who was allegedly murdered by eight police officers, yesterday told the...
View ArticleSupreme Court throws SLPP, PMDC petition out
September 9, 2015 By Hassan Gbassay Koroma The Supreme Court of Sierra Leone yesterday struck out of court a joint petition of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) and People’s Movement for...
View Article‘Women should decide freely when and how to have children’
September 9, 2015 By Ibrahim Tarawallie Sierra Leonean women should be able to decide freely for themselves whether to have children, and when and how to have them, according to Deputy Minister of...
View ArticlePoor start for Salone at All African Games
September 9, 2015 By Sahr Morris Jr. Sierra Leone marked a poor return at the ongoing All African Games in Brazzaville, Congo as the country’s representatives in both boxing and karate suffered...
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