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By Steven Bockarie Mansaray Kabala

A two-day rainstorm has hit and destroyed some 75 houses and damaged properties worth millions of leones in the northern town of Kabala of Koinadugu district, authorities have said.

The chairman Koinadugu district council, Sheku Samuel Kamara, told Politico that he was informed by some local authorities of Neya chiefdom and asked for his intervention.

By Mustapha Sesay

Chief Executive Officer, Lake Production, has told newsmen that his entertainment company would be awarding Sierra Leonean musicians for outstanding contributions to the music industry on April 27, Independence Day.

Alhaji Kelfala Tarawally, akaLaj K, revealed this at a press conference held yesterday at Stadium Hostel in Freetown. He said the award ceremony would also serve as “stimuli to discourage our music stars and their fan bases from violent and riotous conducts”.

The prosecution in the ongoing mutiny trial of 14 soldiers seems to be running into trouble. Impeccable sources say the defence lawyers are on an indefinite strike of proceedings over pay. They are Julius Cuffie, Thomas Beah and IP Mammie.

It started last week when the defence bench had fresh faces with those who had put up "some sterling performances" as admitted to by families and relatives of the accused men, nowhere to be seen.

A late night press release on state radio and television on Thursday announced the sacking of the Director General of the National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT), Samuel Bangura; his very powerful deputy director general in charge of finance and membership which is the essence of the Trust, Gibril Saccoh and the head of investment Idris Turay.

Sources close to NASSIT and State House say the dismissals followed a letter written to the president by the Chairman of the Board, Jacob Kanu in which he asked for the sacking of the entire management.

President Ernest Bai Koroma has launched an ambitious US$ 217.5 million programme that "seeks to create one million decent new jobs" for young people, according to a press release from the UNDP, the agency that supports the initiative.

The national Youth Programme is three-year initiative and the first of its kind launched in the country.

“If youths do not come forward, the nation cannot move forward” the president said at the launch on Tuesday.

By Steven Bockarie Mansaray in Kabala

Residents of Kabala in northern Sierra Leone and its environs have raised concerns over the shortage of water, reaching a crisis situation and causing sleepless nightsfor women and children who wake up at 4am to fill up their jerry cans.

Firearms are locally made by blacksmiths

By Steven Bockarie Mansaray Kabala