By Tilly Barrie
Director of Energy in the Ministry of Energy and Power has told a validation workshop for the ECOWAS energy access investment programme in Freetown that the government is planning to increase access to electricity across the country.
“We are committed to accountability” - Charles Mambu
By Kenneth Thompson
Executive director, Health for All coalition, says his organisation is ever committed to ensuring accountability and transparency in Sierra Leone’s health sector as a way to reduce maternal and infant mortality.
Charles Mambu, after winning the “good practice programme monitoring award” told journalists in Freetown that he was grateful to UNFPA for acknowledging their work.
He said 22 countries were up for this year’s award but that his organisation emerged the winner for the west and central Africa regions.
Riot in Sierra Leone as police dead, after driver "killed" in custody
Police on Thursday morning - 5 December - ran amok with protesting commercial transport drivers along the Lumley, Juba and Goderich areas, in the west of Freetown.
The riot left Operational Support Division (OSD) officer dead, according to police.
The protesters burned tyres and barricaded some areas including Femi Turner Driver, place of the private home of President Ernest Bai Koroma.
Rift over beach demolition
Peter Bayuku Conteh, TOurism Minister
By Bampia James Bundu
Minister of tourism and cultural affairs, Peter Bayuku Conteh has warned politicians against adversely using their political affiliations with ongoing development activities in the country.
US$20,000 to boost Pujehun education
By Mohamed T Massaquoi in Pujehun
World Vision Sierra Leone through its Gallinas Perri Area Development Program (ADP) has donated textbooks covering four core subject areas and sports items including footballs, trophies, school bells and football nets to 32 primary and two junior secondary schools in the chiefdom.
The acting ADP manager, Thomas Kpanabom said the books were on Mathematics, English, Social Studies and Integrated Science worth US$20,000 and cautioned beneficiary head teachers to take proper care of the items.
Free healthcare drugs seized in Kabala
Miatta Kargbo, Minister of Health
By Steven Bockarie Mansaray
3 Korean firms for City Hall
By Abdulai Gbla
Three Korean engineering and construction firms have expressed interest in the multimillion dollar construction of City Hall, already billed to be the tallest building in Freetown once completed.
The Freetown City Council (FCC) recently opened the bidding process for the said work at their offices on Wallace Johnson Street, which saw the three Korean companies and a few local ones taking part in the exercise.
