By Kenneth Thompson
Deputy Director of the National AIDS Secretariat has declared in Freetown that by 2015 there will be no more reported cases of new HIV infections in Sierra Leone, with a current infection rate of 1.5%.
Robbers terrorise Segbwema
By Bob Batilo Saffa
Officer Commanding police operations in the eastern town of Segbwema, Kailahun district has told Politico that ten cases of house-breaking and larceny have been reported to his office in just one month.
ASP Patrick Joseph Alpha said investigation was in progress but that no arrests had been made so far. He said “to make the township safe again I have organized patrols in the township”.
Bombs found in school
By Fasalie Sulaiman Kamara
Some ammunition, among them bullets and bombs, was discovered inside the compound of Services primary school at the Wilberforce Barracks in Freetown, leaving school authorities, parents and pupils panicked.
A senior teacher, Kelie Mansaray, told Politicothat “the ammunition was discovered when we contracted someone to rehabilitate the old toilet in the school compound that had not been used since the war”.
Zero rural access to electricity
By Tilly Barrie
The development agency of United Nations, UNDP, has said in Freetown that less than one percent of the country’s rural population has access to electricity and therefore depends on wood fuel for cooking.
Minister promises to streamline private schools
By Abdulai Gbla
Minister of education, Dr. Minkailu Bah, has threatened to chase out and close down all private schools he considers to be “mushroom schools” in the country.
He made the resolution at a meeting organized by the Conference of Principals in Sierra Leone at the Government Rokel Secondary School in Freetown.
Dr. Bah claimed that “most of these so called private schools do not have proper documentation”, adding that that was against the laws of Sierra Leone.
111 for Paramount Chieftaincy elections
By Bampia James Bundu
One hundred and eleven candidates are set to take part in the chieftaincy elections for 19 chiefdoms across the country slated to take place from 2 to 20 December, 2013.
Chief Electoral Commissioner,Christiana Thorpe,told a press conference at their offices on Tower Hill in Freetown that the declaration of rights of the aspirants for paramount chieftaincy had been completed by the ministry of local government and rural development.
Dep info minister says "Media is serious business’
By Kenneth Thompson
Deputy minister of information and communications has called on Sierra Leoneans to take media business very seriously if they must catch up with international standards.
Theo-Nicol was addressing the validation process of policies regarding foreign and multi-national corporate ownership of media and cross media ownership in Sierra Leone in Freetown, when he observed that “the media landscape should be free so that more investors could come to invest in the industry”.
