By Saio Marrah
Disbursement of a Preparatory Grant of 1.5 Billion Leones for eight thousand Self Help Affinity Groups (SAGs) members has commenced in 13 districts across Sierra Leone.
The Communications Unit of the Bo District Office of the National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA), confirmed in a statement dated 25th August 2022 that the process which started last Monday is to end on Friday 2nd September.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
430 youths on the 27th of August 2022, graduated in various skills training courses from the Eastern Technical University (ETU) in Kenema through funding support from World Bank that was facilitated by the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education.
They graduated in programmes such as tailoring, solar restoration, plumbing, electrical installation, carpentry and joinery, block laying, catering, dressmaking and decoration, and computer designing.
By Saio Marrah
The Communication Specialist at the Sierra Leone Roads Authority, Keifa Jaward, has said the institution is formulating a policy that will ensure a fine is issued for the overloading of vehicles plying within the country.
Speaking to Politico, Jaward said the process will be done by placing devices on the roads that will scan a vehicle and detect if it is overloaded beyond its registered capacity.
This according to him is intended to deter overloading, which he said contributes to the destruction of roads.
By Nasratu Kargbo
The Head of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Richard Peter Gibao Roberts has said that the twenty-four juvenile protesters that were arrested as a result of the August 10th demonstration are currently with Catholic mission-supported children’s organisation Don Bosco Fambul.
By Nasratu Kargbo
The Office of the outgoing Students Union’s (SU) President at Fourah Bay College has accused some students of destroying the university’s property during the chaos that broke out on campus last Thursday at the manifesto reading of one of the aspiring candidates for the Student Union Presidency.
By Alpha Abu
Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Professor David Francis has held bilateral talks with his Japanese counterpart Yoshimasha Hayashi during the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) that took place in Tunisia over the weekend.
By Alpha Abu
Less than two weeks to the start of a nationwide voter- registration exercise, the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL), on Wednesday conducted a symbolic launching of the process at the Freetown Brookfields Hotel, ahead of the event proper, which will literally commence on the 3rd September this year.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
