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By Saio Marrah

Female students numbering 520 studying Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture and Mathematics (STEAM) in the various government -run universities have benefitted from the government’s  grant-in- aid.  The Minister of Technical and Higher Education, Professor Alpha  T. Wurie told journalists  at the government’s weekly  press briefing last Thursday that the students were among  6,125  that had applied for the 2020/2021 academic year grant.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has warned lecturers of the Eastern Polytechnic against money or sex for grades at a meeting held at the institution’s canteen on Combema Road, Kenema.

“We will not encourage rotten and bad people in the system but to sieve them from the system,” says John Juana, Registrar of the Eastern Polytechnic.

By Alpha Abu

Soldiers in the neighbouring country of Guinea have toppled the government of President Alpha Conde. 

In the early hours of Sunday there was gunfire around Kaloum an area in the capital Conakry, where the Presidential palace is located. 

Pictures then flashed on various news platforms showing heavily armed soldiers draped in the colours of the country’s flag surrounding another officer identified as  Special Forces Commander Mamady Doumbouya,  who then announced their action  to replace Conde. 

By Nasratu Kargbo

The President of Women in the Media Sierra Leone (WIMSAL) Femi Jarrett Coker has called on the Ministry of Information and Communication and other stakeholders to help empower female journalists to build their professional abilities, especially in this post repeal era.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

By Nasratu Kargbo 

By Saio Marrah

In a bid to cut the cost of making distress calls while out at sea, the Sierra Leone Maritime Administration (SLMA) has launched a toll free line in collaboration with Orange Mobile Network.

At a news conference in Freetown last week, the Acting Executive Director of the SLMA, Sama Ansu Gamanga, noted that: “what we have done here today is that we have launched our own toll free line (855) that will enable people who are in distress at sea to call. When they call that number there will be appropriate response”.