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By Bampia James Bundu

Njala University will tomorrow continue with its week-long activities of marking 50 years of its existence.

President of the alumni association, Sanusi Deen said the institution was founded in 1964 as a university college, with the support of the United States agency for international development (USAID) and the technical implementation agency of one of the best agriculture schools in the USA, the University of Illinois.

By Tilly Barrie

Ministry of social welfare with funding from the UN Women has held a report sensitisation and mock session at the Njala Venue in Freetown before the country presents its gender report in Geneva on 19 February 2014.

Head of UN Women, Melrose Kargbo, said state parties, including the government of Sierra Leone, signed up to that treaty and that they had done their first five reports.

The would-be delegation needed to understand how and what would be presented in Geneva so that they would not be found wanting, she added.

By Crispina Cummings

After a seven-day ultimatum by the majority leader in parliament, urging government ministries, departments and agencies to give reasons for failing to witness "important sessions" of the House, they MDAs have not budged.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

A non-governmental organisation, PaRD Sierra Leone, in partnership with Growth Centre has presented certificates to 175 young people across the district at the end of a three-month training in agricultural production.

Speaking to Politico, the PaRD Sierra Leone director, Mahmoud Borbor Kargbo said the training was designed to help young people become "useful agents in development initiative".

Bernadete Lahai, MInority Leader

By Crispina Cummings, Parliamentary Correspondent

15 Senegalese business enterprises have confirmed their participation at this year's month-long trade fair and exhibition in Freetown which opens on 26 March, according to Ralph Ese Donnu Sawyer, Sierra Leone's Information Attaché in Dakar.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi
Police in Pujehun have confirmed the discovery of a skeleton believed to be of one Mohamed Sheriff who disappeared in 2012 following a hunting expedition, but they have fallen short of being so categorical.

The discovery was made by farmers in a forest along Ngagama village in the Kpanga Karbondeh chiefdom.