By Mustapha Sesay & Kenneth Thompson
The Legal Adviser at Sierra Leone's central National Power Authority has told Politico that encroachment on their land at Goderich in the outskirts of Freetown may scupper their chances of implementing a US$ 14 million project funded under the Japanese International Corporation Agency (JICA) project to construct substations for the supply of electricity to the area.
By Mohamed T. Massaquoi
All 272 primary schools in Pujehun district have, effective today Tuesday 1 October, shut down indefinitely, according to the spokesman of the aggrieved head teachers.
Thomas Musa Conteh said this was in reaction to the “deliberate refusal” by the district council to pay their school fee subsidies for 1st and 2nd terms of the 2012 and 2013 academic year.
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Four more witnesses yesterday 30 September testified in the preliminary investigations into the alleged rape case against the sacked minister of education, Mahmoud Tarawally.
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
Chairman motor drivers’ union in Kono says despite efforts by SALCOST to patch up the 70-kilometre stretch of road between Matotoka and Yeyie, government bus services to the district have been terminated.
Ali Musa told Politico that “transportation services have been suspended indefinitely, leaving hundreds of passengers in a precarious situation in the district”, which used to be the breadbasket of Sierra Leone.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
