Some thirty
farmers from the agricultural business centre of Koinadugu, northern
Sierra Leone, have signed contracts with the Bennimix factory in the
southern district of Bo ahead of next year’s harvest. They
represent 2,000 others in the district.
The Guild of Editors has viewed with utter dismay the ongoing "disgusting and disrespectful" attacks on the Independent Media Commission and its commissioners, a press release from the group said yesterday.
By Alpha Daramy Sesay
Chief electoral
commissioner of NEC, Dr. Christiana Thorpe, has told a press
conference in Freetown yesterday that they would destroy all obsolete
election materials across the fourteen districts in the country.
By Septimus senessie in Kono
The two headteachers of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) and God Is Our Light (GIO) primary schools at Saqueetown, Tankoro Chiefdom in Kono district have expressed utter dismay over the mining company, OCTEA Diamond Group, formerly called Koidu Holdings.
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
The National
Democratic Alliance, NDA, may give up if the National Electoral
Commission (NEC) refuses to accommodate any new dates for the
nomination of its presidential and vice presidential candidates ahead
of the17 November polls.
By Septimus Senesie in Kono
For a week now the
movement of people in the diamond-rich district of Kono has been
restricted with especially students stranded on their way back to
school due to high cost of the pump price of fuel emanating from an
apparent shortage of the commodity.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
