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By Bampia James Bundu

The National Programme Manager in the ministry of health has warned Sierra Leoneans to be cautious about the use of hand sanitizer as "it does not prevent contact with the Ebola disease because the virus is too strong and dangerous to be constrained by a hand sanitizer”.

432 subscribers to the mobile phone telecoms company, Africell have received cash awards as part of the company’s “play and win” promotion.

The promotion, which was launched in June to run alongside the just-concluded World Cup, aimed at “giving away” a total sum of Le 500 million to “faithful and active subscribers”, according to the company’s Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Joe Abass Bangura.

By Jenneh Braima

A former Member of Parliament has urged ward committee members in the Moyamba District to pay their taxes for the development of their communities. Addressing participants at a tax promotion and revenue mobilisation training organised in Taiama, Joseph Kaindoh said that tax payment was very important as it not only helped local councils to develop but also reduced burden on the central government.

By Bampia James Bundu

Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone, HRCSL has partnered with the parliamentary oversight committee on human rights to undertake "a macro-monitoring activity" in the three headquarter towns of Makeni, Kenema and Bo.

Human rights commissioner, Abdulai Brima Sheriff, who led the team said the move was to assess the extent of human rights violations in police cells, prisons and health facilities in those areas.

Ebola survivors

Sixty people who had tested positive for Ebola have been cured of the haemorrhagic fever, according to a press release from the Ministry of Health and Sanitation issued yesterday.

This, since the outbreak started in May.

With almost 500 days to go to the attainment of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, Sierra Leone will not meet Goals 4 and 5 on the reduction of maternal and infant deaths.

According to Amina Muhammed, UN Assistant Secretary General and Special Adviser to Ban Ki-Moon on Post-2015 Development Agenda, Africa is lagging behind in especially these areas.

The Secretary General of the Western Area Football Association has told Politico that a group of football stakeholders will meet today to "invoke Article 28 of the SLFA constitution which says among other things that 'The executive committee shall convene an extraordinary congress if 50% of the delegates of SLFA make such a request in writing...An extraordinary congress shall be held within 90 days by the executive committee..."