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By Bampia James Bundu

One of the leading telecommunications company in Sierra Leone, Africell, has doled out 84 prizes to winners of the ongoing “Okada Bomba” promotion at the company’s headquarters at Wilberforce in Freetown.

Presenting the prizes to the winners, Africell’s Administrative Director, Abdul Aziz Gabisi commended them for successfully taking part in the ongoing promotion and encouraged more subscribers to take part in the promotion to enable them win wonderful prizes.

WAEC and AML workers pose for the camera

By Bampia James Bundu

Officials of the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, have inspected the adult literacy and numeracy programme being conducted for community people by iron ore miner, Africa Minerals, at Pepel in the Port Loko district.

By Bampia James Bundu

The Institute of Management, Accounting and Tourism (IMAT) has awarded full tuition scholarships to ten of their students and 60 pupils from twenty-five government-assisted senior secondary schools for the 2013/14 academic year through their community support programme.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

Magistrate Komba Kamanda of Court No. 2 in Freetown yesterday refused bail to eleven accused, all of them women, and remanded them in prison until the next adjourned date. The women, all said to be in their twenties, face six counts of loitering with intent in contravention of the Public Order Act of 1965. They were allegedly caught in various parts of Freetown over the weekend.

They all pleaded guilty.

By Crispina Cummings

Parliament has passed the Finance Act 2013, which bill was presented by deputy minister of finance, Momodu Kargbo, arguing that it was exceptionally important to make business competitive but also make rules to regularize them.

He said the Act would enable the tax waver to change, as would open windows in excise duty on polythene and plastic, beverage foods, tobacco, music scene, as well as regularise artisanal mining.

A recent survey report by Afrobarometer has placed Sierra Leone with 63% on the top of countries with the highest rate of bribery while Batswana was rated the lowest with just 4%.

By Bampia James Bundu and Fasalie Sulaiman Kamara

Assistant physician, Mustapha Kemoh, at the Yangadie Memorial Hospital in the east of Freetown has confirmed he is currently treating a 16-year old junior secondary school leaving (BECE) pupil of the Municipal Secondary School for gunshot wounds.

Mariama Liscandry was yesterday hospitalized after a stray bullet allegedly resulting from police attempt to crackdown on violent pupils following the death, on Tuesday, of a pupil of the Ansarul Islamic Secondary School.