Miatta Kargbo, Minister of Health
By Steven Bockarie Mansaray
3 Korean firms for City Hall
By Abdulai Gbla
Three Korean engineering and construction firms have expressed interest in the multimillion dollar construction of City Hall, already billed to be the tallest building in Freetown once completed.
The Freetown City Council (FCC) recently opened the bidding process for the said work at their offices on Wallace Johnson Street, which saw the three Korean companies and a few local ones taking part in the exercise.
Pay Day for Waste Management workers
By Kenneth Thompson
Chief administrator of the Freetown city council has revealed that the workers of the Freetown Waste Management will soon be paid off, adding that “Masada can employ them afterwards if they want to”.
Amadu Conteh told the last council meeting for this year at the Laura Dove school in Freetown that they had leased the equipment and facilities owned and occupied by the Freetown Waste Management company to Masada.
AML commits to fight HIV/AIDS
AML staff performing an HIV/AIDS sensitization skit
Iron ore miner in Sierra Leone, African Minerals (SL) Limited, has recommitted itself to fighting against HIV/AIDS through awareness raising amongst its workforce and community people. It made the pledge marking World Aids Day on December 1.
Students riot in eastern Sierra Leone
By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema
Hundreds of students of the Luke’s Commercial Secondary school in Kenema yesterday barricaded the road leading to Kpetema Section,brandished matches and pelted stones indiscriminately, demanding that their principal be replaced with immediate effect.
SLPP accuses APC of failing the nation
empty opposition seats in parliament
By Bampia James Bundu
Secretary general of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples’ Party, SLPP,has described the first year of the second term in power of the ruling All Peoples’ Congress, APC, as a failed era.
Le 2B for the aged
By Fasalie Sulaiman Kamara
Information officer at the ministry of labor and social security, Lansana Bayoh Sesay, has told Politico that the Sierra Leone government has put aside Le 2 billion forthe vulnerable aged across the country.
He said the category of beneficiaries was identified through a survey conducted by Statistics Sierra Leone, which put people qualified for the scheme at 60 years and above.
