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By Saio Marah

Parliament yesterday approved a $32 million loan agreement with ECOWAS for the establishment of the University of Science and Technology in Kono District.

Deputy Minister of Finance, Patricia Lavaley told the House that the project would cost $34 million. She said the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development would provide the $32 million, while the Government of Sierra Leone would counterpart-fund the remaining $ 2 million.

By Saio Marrah

Parliament has approved Isatu Aminata Bundu, as High Commissioner to Kenya, to replace Peter Joseph Francis who died last year. 

Bundu, who’s 38 years old, becomes one of the youngest Sierra Leonean Ambassadors of all time, probably the youngest since Shirley Gbudema was appointed Ambassador to Ethiopian in 1972 at the age of 36 years.

By Politico staff writer  

During a recent tour of Pujehun district, southern Sierra Leone, President Julius Maada Bio declared the town of Sulima as a tourism development destination.

The declaration came after a conducted tour of the town’s beach area with the Minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs, Dr. Memunatu Pratt and other members of his government.

By Alpha Abu

Some nine thousand seven hundred and sixty-three households in four districts have so far benefitted from the cash donation by National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA) aimed at cushioning the economic challenges brought about by the covid-19 pandemic.

Homes in Western Rural and Urban and the districts of Kono, Kenema and Kailahun each received the sum of 1, 309, 000 (one million three hundred and nine thousand Leones).

By Francis H. Murray

Justice Komba Kamanda has withdrawn the files for ruling in respect of the matter between members of the National Reformation Movement (NRM) of the opposition APC and the leadership of the mainstream party. The judge acted after a jurisdictional objection submitted by lawyers of the party because one of those who brought the original case to the High Court refused to fall in line with his other two colleagues who now want to discontinue their case against the APC.

By Francis H Murray

Detective Police Constable 13974 Emmanuel Johannes and the 11th prosecution witness in the murder trial of Mariama Sajor Barrie and Ibrahim Bah for the alleged murder of 5-year old Khadija Saccoh has testified before Justice John Bosco Allieu and a 12 member jury.

Led in evidence on Tuesday, 23rd February 2021 by Lawyer Joseph A. K Sesay, the witness described himself as scene of crime officer attached at the Congo Cross Police Station but previously at the Lumley police station.

By Alpha Abu

The vital Savage Street Bridge which was being rebuilt after it collapsed last September, has reopened to the public again. The official reopening event took place on Tuesday 23 February 2021, attended by officials in the Ministry of Works and Public Assets and partners.

The Savage Street Bridge connects the Western part of Freetown and the central business district and its collapse affected the movement of vehicles and pedestrians and placed enormous pressure on the nearby railway line bridge.