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By Politico staff writer  

In a bid to revamp the Bunumbu Teachers College (BTC), the Government of Sierra Leone, through the Education Sector Support Project has secured a $15,000,000 grant to reconstruct and rehabilitate one of the oldest teacher training colleges in Sierra Leone. Work is to commence in January 2022.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

Ten youths arrested for allegedly attacking officials from the Ministry of Lands and Police personnel who had gone to witness the settling of a boundary dispute between the chiefdoms of Gaura and Dama in the Kenema district, have been released.   

By Saio Marrah

Simeon Harding, a final year student in the department of Management information Systems at the University of Management and Technology (UNIMTECH) has emerged winner of an essay competition for tertiary institutions, organized by Grassroots Action for National Development (GRAND). The title of the essay was ‘the Sierra Leone I want to see: Individual, Community and National Responses for a better Health Care System in a post-COVID-19 Sierra Leone’.

By Saio Marrah

The President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), Ahmed Sahid Nasralla, has in a written statement expressed disappointment at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for supporting what he called a “wrong action by Parliament”.  

By Nasratu Kargbo

By Mabinty M. Kamara

As they joined the world in commemorating the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the Mano River Union Civil Society Natural Resources Rights and Governance Platform (MRU CSO) has in a press statement called for a concerted approach in advancing the pressing need for a new social contract geared toward combating the legacy of exclusion and marginalization.

By Alpha Abu

The country’s Leone currency notes are to have the last three zeroes struck off in what is a comprehensive redenomination process that is to be initiated by the Central Bank. This was disclosed by the Governor of the central bank, Professor Keifalla Kallon during a press conference in Freetown on Wednesday 12 August 2021.