By Mabinty M. Kamara
The Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone has postponed the Students Union election to the 2nd of June 2021.
This notice came in the wake of preparations and campaigns for the election that was scheduled for Friday 28th May 2021.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
Report of the monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) published by Statistics Sierra Leone has revealed an increase in the inflation rate for April 2021 at 2.73 percent up by 1.89 percentage from 0.84 percent in March 2021.
Last month, the country recorded a low inflation rate of a single digit at since six years ago according to officials of Stats SL. Despite the increase in the monthly inflation rate, it remains a single digit.
By Saio Marrah
As a way of mitigating international crime amongst countries in the regional bloc ECOWAS , the Parliament of Sierra Leone has unanimously ratified a treaty called Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters.
By Nasratu Kargbo
In a bid to combat the sudden outbreak of polio in the country, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation has announced the first round of the National Polio Vaccination Campaign. The campaign is said to run from the 28th May to the 31st May 2021.
According to the statement from the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone has been polio-free since 2010, but the country is currently facing an outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type2 (cVDPV2).
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Defense Counsel Melron Nicol- Wilson representing former Health and Sanitation Minister Miatta Kargbo at the Appeal court has filed for leave on behalf of his client. The former minister in the then government led by President Ernest Bai Koroma is one of many officials in the past regime who have appealed the reports of the White Paper that followed the recommendations by the Commissions of Inquiry set up by the present SLPP government to examine their stewardship during their time in office.
By Politico staff writer
Pupils and heads of the Koyeima Government Boys Secondary School in Bo district southern Sierra Leone have called on the government and other well-wishers to facelift their school.
Built in 1928, the school is one of the institutions established in the provinces many years before independence to ensure education for the rural population in the country.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
As part of measures to identify one of the non-communicable diseases in the communities, the District Health Management Team (DHMT) in Kenema has embarked on free diabetes screening in the city. Some medical doctors based in the USA are supporting the exercise.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
