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By Alpha Abu

The spate of vandalisation of electrical transformers and theft of power supply together with other acts of criminality associated with the energy sector are now being addressed with the formation of a crack Joint Field Task Force on Electricity.  Senior officials of the force were on Tuesday 21^st September 2021 introduced to journalists at the Ministry of Information and Communication in Freetown.   

By politico staff writer 

Iye Abu has on Tuesday 21^st September 2021 been elected the first-ever female Students Union President of Njala University. Miss Abu   joins her counterpart Adama Sillah of Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, to lead the male-dominated campuses.

 President- elect Iye Abu won against  male candidate, Mambu Lansana Vonjoe, a third year student studying  B. SC in Public Health at the School of Community health sciences with a margin of  1, 236 votes while  Mambu Lansana Vonjoe got 118 votes. 

By Nasratu Kargbo

Teachers, parents and school authorities have been reacting with mixed feelings to the ban on corporal punishment throughout Sierra Leone which was announced by the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education. The SLTU principal has even suggested that they’ll send the kids away since they can no longer beat them. 

By Politico staff writer

The Ministry or Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) has in a press statement announced the Anti-corporal Punishment initiative,   reinforcing a ban on corporal punishments from all schools across the country including private owned schools.

The move to introduce the anti-corporal punishment initiative in schools according to the press statement will promote positive disciplinary methods and effectively reinforce ban on the practice of corporal punishment in all schools nationwide.

By Nasratu Kargbo

The Africa Young Voices (AYV) television is now on Direct Satellite Television (DSTV) managed by Multi-Choice Company based in South Africa. The formal events to mark the commencement of such a development were held in Freetown on Friday 17 September 2021.  

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AYV Media Empire Anthony Navo urged all Sierra Leoneans, especially content creators to use the AYV channel on DSTV to sell Sierra Leone to Africa.

By Kemo Cham

The NGO FOCUS 1000 and its partner the Kombra Network on Friday 17^th September 202 held a one-day planning session for an upcoming mass vaccination exercise against the Covid-19 virus.

The vaccination exercise, according to officials, is part of efforts to increase the uptake of Covid-19 jabs in the country where official figures show that only about 2 percent of the population has been inoculated against the viral pandemic.

By Nasratu Kargbo

The Deputy Country Representative UNDP, Ms. Rokya Ye Dieng has told journalists during the weekly government news conference that this year’s Social Good Summit (SGS) has introduced new dimension of inclusiveness into the competition for young people with solution for assistive technology mainly to support people with disability. She explained that cash prizes will be given to winners and runners up to encourage them to continue investing in their solutions.