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Speaker Abel Stronge

An authoritative source in government has intimated Politico that after weeks of speculation Speaker of Parliament, Justice Nathaniel Abel Stronge on Wednesday tendered his resignation. The same source says the House will on Tuesday 21 January 2014 agree on a new speaker.

Mayor Lamina a council policeman

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Fourteen municipal police officers in Koidu have been certified after the completion of a three-week intensive training conducted by the Sierra Leone Police force on the request of Koidu city council.

The Clock Tower in Makeni City

By Mathew Kanu in Makeni

A team of students and professors from the Universidad CEU San Pablo de Madrid, a private Catholic university in Spain, are in the country to partner with University of Makeni, UNIMAK on the proposed sustainable urban planning.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

The long abandoned 20 kilometers of Koidu township roads in Kono and the 5 kilometer roads in the northern town of Kabala in Koinadugu district have resumed after Welle Group failed to deliver on them.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

A charitable organization that seeks to empower unfortunate teenage mothers by way of educating them has been launched in Freetown, after it was first established in more than five districts since early last year.

Speaking at the official launch of the PeagieWoobay Scholarship Fund  in Freetown, founder of the organization, Peagie Foday, (nee Woobay),  said her dream was to make a change in the lives of as many young girls as possible through education.

Peace Mothers, a group of rural women brought together by Fambul Tok International, have gone beyond traditional reconciliation approaches in post-war Sierra Leone to mobilising and coordinating farm and business women in the north.

The women groups, drawn from 16 sections in Bombali and all 11 sections in the Koinadugu districts, were being trained in business sustainability measures and approaches, values and principles so they could pull individual resources and help themselves with little supervision.

Dr Julius Spencer

The Managing Editor of Premier Media Consultancy, Dr Julius Spencer and the editor of his Premier News newspaper, Alusine Sesay were yesterday called in by the police Criminal Investigations Department over an article published in the newspaper last week which police deem criminally libellous.