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By Mustapha Sesay

Deputy Chairman of the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party has described as “paradoxical” President Ernest Bai Koroma’s recent sacking of the minister of works.

Dr. Prince Alex Harding told a news conference at the party’s headquarters on Wallace Johnson St. in Freetown that the sacking of Alimamy Petito Koroma by the ruling All People’s Congress (APC) government was “a paradox which discredited the infrastructural achievements of the president.”

Civil society organisations in the southern Moyamba district have called on Government through the Chief Justice Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh to assign a resident high court judge to the district. It followed a huge caseload of the rape of girls some of them as young as three years old with no judge to try the alleged rapists.

The organisations made the call at a bimonthly stakeholders’ meeting organised by the Centre for the Coordination of Youth Activities (CCYA) with support from Access for Security and Justice.

By Steven Bockarie Mansaray

Officials of the iron ore miner, African Minerals Limited (AML) last week held a meeting in Kondabaia Diang chiefdom in the northern Koinadugu district to inform the local and traditional authorities about their plan to start drilling and exploration work in the area.

By Mathew Kanu

Women farmers in two chiefdoms in Bombali district have called on the Ministry of Agriculture “to do more” in the area of building their capacity to enhance their skills to be able to attain food security in the country.

Kadiatu Kamara, a farmer at Makumpbana said that even though they had received some training from some civil society organisations that enabled them to now weed and harvest on time, they still needed government intervention in providing additional training and capacity building.

By Mustapha Sesay

The Chief Executive Officer of the Road Maintenance Fund Administration (RMFA) says Le 56 billion has been approved for road maintenance nationwide.

Speaking at a news conference yesterday, Abdul Kalokoh said part of the money would go towards “patching potholes” on 23 streets and overlaying of 25 others within Freetown.

By Kemoh Sesay
The Sierra Leone Football Association has sacked the national female Under-20 football coach following Sierra Queens’ crushing defeat by Nigeria for the World Cup qualifiers for Canada 2014.

According to a press release from the FA, the Executive Committee of the FA accused Hannah Williams of failing "to provide technical leadership in the away leg of the National U-20 Championship against the Nigerian U-20 on Saturday 26th October where the team lost 10 - 0".