By Anthony Levey
Sierra Leone's Chief Justice, Desmond Babatunde Edwards has called on Judges and lawyers to strengthen and build cordial relationships amongst each other to achieve mutual goals.
Care International launches Mama–Baby project
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
A Non-Governmental organization, Care International has on the 10th of February 2022 launched the Mama-Baby pack Kits Project aimed at supporting lactating mothers and pregnant women in ten districts of Sierra Leone.
The mama-Baby kits contain detergent soap, fabric materials, sanitary pads, and bags, plastic buckets for the baby, rapper, bathing soap, baby powder, towel, and other assorted items for both mother and child.
Sierra Leone bans Valentine’s Day gift sale in and around schools
By Abass Jalloh
As the Ministry of Basic and Senior Schools (MBSSE) discloses plans to ban trading of Valentine's gift items around schools, vendors of memorabilia items have expressed dissatisfaction over the said intention of “banning sales of Valentine’s Day Memorabilia on school grounds.”
MBSSE on the 8th February 2022 wrote an open letter to school authorities in a request to ban the selling of “memorabilia” on February 14, Valentine’s Day.
Mass Covid19 vaccination of students in eastern Sierra Leone
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
An extensive vaccination of secondary school and university students in Kenema against Covid-19 ends this Friday 11 February 2022. Students of secondary schools and those at the Eastern Technical University (ETU) were targeted for the inoculation.
According to the District Medical Officer Dr. Donald Samuel Grant, young people from 12 to 17 years have been included after the previous official arrangement of starting vaccination from 18 years. The Pfizer vaccine was administered during the exercise.
TRANSCO CLSG explains power outage in southeast Sierra Leone
Nasratu Kargbo
Following complaints from residents in the cities of Bo and Kenema about the poor electricity, shortly after the introduction of the West Africa Power Pool that promised uninterrupted energy supply, the firm responsible has issued a press release explaining the reasons for the outage. TRANSCO CLSG said there was a break in transmission of the 225Kv line from Man to the Yekepa substation in Liberia caused by a very long tree that fell on the conductor outside the 40-meter CLSG transmission line corridor.
Sierra Leone shuts down iron rod warehouses
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Edward Hinga Sandi, and the team have made an on-the-spot check on businesses around Freetown and have closed some stores selling iron rods after he claimed the owners did not attend a meeting summoned. Sandi had gone out checking on stores selling iron rods and cement after concerns were raised about pricing.
Sierra Leone education budget above Africa Average-World Bank Vice President
By Mabinty M. Kamara
The World Bank Vice President for Western and Central Africa, Ousmane Diagana has commended Sierra Leone’s effort in human capital development through access to education. He says the small West Africa Country of Sierra Leone is among few nations with about 20 percent budgetary allocation to education.
“This is one of the few countries in Africa that allocate more than 20 percent of the budget to education. In the context of the human capital agenda, Sierra Leone remains a priority. Education is fundamental,” Diagana said.
