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By Nasratu Kargbo

Forum for Rural and Urban Transformation (FoRUT) has supported thirty-five youths, mostly women, with startup kits after they completed training in various skills, in a bid to make them self-employed and self-reliant.

In her statement during presentation of the kits, 7^th March 2024, the Executive Director of FoRUT Boi Jeneh Jalloh said it was important that they gave the trainees startup kits to get them up and running.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

As they gathered every March to celebrate Social Work Month, the group Social Workers Sierra Leone (SWSL) has called on the government through the Ministry of Social Welfare to see the need to transform social work into a Statutory Act in Parliament that can give the professionals the respect and honor to practice in a more dignified manner.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

One of the Partners of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, through the  STOP Spillover Project has ended a three-day simulation exercise on the transmission of Zoonotic diseases  that comes from animals to human.

The exercise was conducted in two communities in Guala and Dodo townships in Dodo Chiefdom from the 6th to 8th March 2024.

The engagement captured participants such as town chiefs, Community Health Workers, women’s leaders, youth, Community Health Aids, bike riders among others.

By Politico Staff Writer

The Deputy Secretary General of the National Grand Coalition (NGC) party, Alhaji K. Tarawallie popularly called ‘Laj-K’ has expressed frustration over the alliance formed with the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) in the June 24^th multi-tier elections in the country. 

In an audio circulated on social media Laj-K, spoke about the challenges faced by NGC within the current alliance framework and stressed the need for decisive and unified action, moving forward.

By Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah

 Ninety-three percent of Head Teachers have expressed concerns over delays in the ‘timely’ arrival of school subsidies, according to research recently published by the National Partnership for Social Accountability (NPSA) on the State of Education in Sierra Leone 2023.

The report which was launched at the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary School (MBSSE) on 1^st March this year, notes that district-specific figures highlighted the low on-time transfer of subsidies for  Bonthe, Tonkoili, and Bo districts.

By Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah 

Speaking about the decentralization of the application process regarding Sierra Leone’s Passport, the Chief Immigration Officer, Alusine Kanneh has said application would be done in the provinces, naming Bo, Kenema, and Makeni as venues for such an exercise.

Kanneh made this disclosure at the government's weekly press briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Freetown on the 5th of March this year. 

By Saio Marrah

Justice Adrian Fisher, presiding over a criminal trial of Alpha Sheriff alias ‘APC Sheriff’  and Alhaji Saidu Fofanah as first and second accused respectively, for the alleged operation of a private security company  without license and two other related offences, has promised to rule on the bail application next Tuesday 12^th March this year.