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Sierra Leone to recruit additional 2,800 teachers

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

Government is to recruit 2,800 (Two Thousand, Eight Hundred) Teachers nationwide after it was revealed that the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) through the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) is to submit a list of 680 teachers  due for retirement this year.

The Executive Secretary of the Teaching Service Commission (TSC), Sorie Ibrahim Turay on the 20th July 2023 made the disclosure in an interview with Politico.

Sierra Leone’s president receives ECSL’s annual report

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

In order to fulfill the Legal framework of the Constitution of Sierra Leone, the Chief Electoral Commissioner (CEC) Mohamed Konneh has presented the 2022 Annual Report and Certificate of the Presidential Election to President Julius Maada Bio. The Presentation was done at State House on the 19th July 2023.

The disabled in Sierra Leone wants Deputy Social Welfare minister position

By Nasratu Kargbo

Persons with Disability (PWDs) have said they want one of them to be appointed deputy minister of social welfare.

Speaking in an interview after a press conference held by Sierra Leone Union on Disability Issues (SLUDI) on the 20th July 2023, Acting President of the Union Salieu Turay said “It is our hope that the president kept that position for a qualified person with disability. So we are calling on His Excellency the President to think it necessary to give the position to a person with a disability”.

Liberia allays fears over clustered cattle deaths

By Politico staff writer

After completing laboratory examinations and analyses on the causes of death of 36 cattle within the country, the Ministry of Agriculture’s (MOA) team in Liberia has denied the discovery of infectious animals to human diseases including anthrax or brucellosis.

A press release issued by the Agriculture Ministry on the 19th of July, 2023 emphasized that no disease was found among the dead cattle tested in Foya District where the alleged outbreak was reported.

Girls beat boys in primary school-leaving exams in Sierra Leone

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

In the just-announced National Primary School Examination (NPSE) results, it is noted that 8 or (73%) of the 11 top performers in the 2023 examinations were girls.

The results were published by the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) on the 18th of July 2023.

The MBBSE report indicated that the highest aggregate T-score obtained in the 2023 Primary School leavers exam was 339 (three hundred and thirty-nine).

Only 60% of MPs debated in Sierra Leone’s last parliament

By Mabinty M. Kamara

The Institute for Governance Reform’s latest Parliamentary Tracker has indicated that 40% of Parliamentarians in the last parliament did not participate in any debate.

“40 MPs spoke only one or two times in all 277 sittings or did not speak at all,” the report reads in part.

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