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Chernor Bah, MP

By Bampia James Bundu

Member of Parliament for constituency 110, Chernor Maju Bah, over the weekend donated over Le 50 Million in cash, 250 bags of cement and 70 bundles of zinc, among other things to victims of a fire incident at Tengbeh town, in Freetown.

Contractor and local traditional leaders

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

The Late Wurie

Production Manager and Presenter at the Freetown-based Culture Radio, Obai Wurie has died. Aged 56; according to an announcement by his employers.

By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema

Residents of Small Bo Chiefdom Kenema District have requested  the Paramount Chief of Langurama Chiefdom, Prince Pewa to pay a fine of Le100 million.

The Chiefdom Speaker, Mambu Moiwai said his people had demanded the said amount from Chief Pewa and his subject as damage for the "defaming" suffered by their Paramount Chief, Dhaffie Benya in the hands of Chief Pewa.

It followed the apparent admission of guilt by Chief Pewa that he lied at Chief Benya that he had plotted to kill him.

President of Sierra Leone's Parliamentary Women’s Caucus, Patricia Brown, MP, says more needs to be done to achieve the UN millennium development goals for women and girls, according to a release from the House.

Browne, of Constituency 37 in Kambia District was among hundreds of delegates attending a recent UN Conference in New York on the status of women.

The conference drew attention to the need for the training in science and technology, access to education as well as full employment and decent work for women.

Sierra Rutile Ltd Monday said that its first quarter production for 2014 was up strongly, according to Alliance News in London.

The titanium feedstock minerals company said it increased rutile production 12% to 28,218 tonnes from 25,087 tonnes and increased its ilmenite production 23% to 6,868 tonnes from 5,567 tonnes compared to the first quarter of 2012.

The company also said production of its zircon concentrate increased 36% to 877 tonnes from 643 tonnes.

By Jenneh Brima

Economic growth in sub-Sahara Africa continues to rise from 4.7 percent in 2013 to 5.2 percent in 2014, with performance being boosted by rising investment in natural resources and infrastructure, according to World Bank’s new report, Africa’s Pulse.