By Prince J Musa in Kenema
Sub- contractors working with Pavi-Fort roads Construction Company in Kenema have accused some of the company engineers of being responsible for the slow pace at which the township roads were being constructed which might delay the project beyond its original completion date.
These concerns were reported at a meeting with the administrative officer of Sierra Leone Roads Authority, Dauda Sheriff and Engineer Andrew Jusu.
By Francis H. Murray
President Julius Maada Bio has in a virtual address to the 34th Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly called on other Africans heads of States and governments on the need to be united in order to effect the Continent’s position on the composition of the UN Security Council.
During the conference over the weekend, Bio who chairs the Committee of ten Heads of State and Government (C10) called on the leadership of Africa to remain unified in respect of the current reformation process of the UN.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
The chiefdom health supervisor assigned to Gorama Mende and Wandor chiefdoms Kenema district Sallieu Lansana has on the 5th February 2021 catalogued the major challenges Peripheral and Community Health facilities are faced with in those two areas.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
The National Coronavirus Response Centre has late Friday, revisited the latest measures instituted to curtail the violent spread of the second wave of COVID in the country with the 10pm curfew still enforced.
The restrictions were on the 25th January this year imposed due to the spike in the number of COVID cases in the month of January 2021 which has so far been the month that has recorded the highest number of cases since it recorded its first case in March 2020.
Statistic Sierra Leone has commenced the training of Cartographic Mapping officers simultaneously in all 16 districts of Sierra ahead of the Mid-Term Population and Housing Census.
Speaking on the importance of cartographic mapping, the Deputy Statistician General, Andrew Bob Johnny said this was the first time an Electronic Census is happening in the country, but that at the end, it will help to generate credible population and housing data Mid-way between the census in 2015 and 2025.
By Alpha Abu
The main challenger in the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) Presidential race, Rodney Michael has told Politico that having gone through the provisional eligibility scrutiny by the Electoral Committee of the Association he had no reason to be dissatisfied with the electoral process.
By Alpha Abu
50,000 small and medium businesses nationwide are to benefit from a 100 billion Leone loan scheme over the next three years. This was disclosed by Shiaka Sannoh the Chief Executive Officer of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises Development Agency (SMEDA) during a collaborative seminar with the National Civic Education body, NaCCED on developing the appropriate messaging system for the scheme dubbed “Munafa Fund”.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
