By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay
Olympics is a sporting occasion that blends a range of different sports in one grand show piece. This sporting show piece started as far back as 776 BC. Since then it has gone through massive changes.
HIV, Stigma & discrimination widespread in Sierra Leone
By Kemo Cham
Despite the existence of a law prohibiting stigmatisation and discrimination of people living with HIV, the practice is at an alarming rate, anti-HIV/AIDS campaigners have warned.
Stigmatization is prevalent at all levels of society and it is driving people who should seek life-saving help, like HIV/AIDS sufferers, to go into hiding, posing further threats to society, officials of the National AIDS Secretariat (NAS) and UNAIDS, said.
Supplement: Mercury Unveils Bumper Jackpot
By Mustapha Kamara Junior
Mercury International, Sierra Leone’s leading sports-betting and lottery company, yesterday held the first draw of its bumper jackpot at its Siaka Stevens Street office in Freetown.
It comes days after the company unveiled the new lottery game for its customers.
The new 4/50 Jackpot game was officially launched by Kerry Dunkley, the company’s Lottery Manager, at the Family Kingdom Resort at Aberdeen, in the west of Freetown.
Postwar Poverty Alleviation in Sierra Leone: Economic Empowerment of Urban and Rural Youths (Part II)
By Habib M Sesay, PhD
Turning Point for the Worst for the Sierra Leone Economy
Postwar Poverty Alleviation in Sierra Leone: Economic Empowerment of Urban and Rural Youths (Part I)
By Habib M Sesay, PhD
Introduction
Vaccination, African leaders recommit to global plan
By Kemo Cham
Despite a dramatic increase in the global vaccination rates in the last two decades more still needs to be done to tackle life threatening diseases prevalent in Africa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned last month.
