By Francis H. Murray
Engineers rebuilding the Savage Street Bridge have assured that all major work on it has been completed with indications that the street will be reopened to vehicular traffic by the end of January.
The Project Manager, Engineer Patrick Masuba, could not give a specific date for the opening of the bridge but noted that plans were on to possibly merge its opening with that of the Limkokwing-Regent Road which is tentatively slated for the 31st of January 2021.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
A security guard at Beowulf Security Agency, Peter Lebbie is currently on the run for allegedly stealing seven million Leones from the EDSA Kenema office where he was deployed to guard.
The incident, say officials, occurred on the night of January 5 this year.
David Moigboi Lahai, Meters Supervisor at EDSA office in Kenema told Politico that the money was payment made by customers for the prepaid metres on the previous day.
By Politico staff Writer
President Julius Maada Bio has awarded Sierra Leonean passports to 22 African Americans after they were accorded citizenship of the country.
The African-Americans, according to a State House press release, traced their origin to Sierra Leone through DNA results, most of them with roots from Bo and Tonkolili districts.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
The Kenema City Council has unveiled its development plans for 2021 while highlighting successes and challenges of 2020.
Addressing journalists at the council’s end-of-year briefing at the Kenema city conference hall, Mayor Thomas Karim Baio said the council was able to rehabilitate two markets to improve the business environment. He said that among other things they also constructed twenty-two culverts and managed solid waste well in 2020.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
In an effort to build a “resilient system to adapt to the raft of climate change” in the country, the Sierra Leone Meteorological Agency (SL-Met) and partners have in a two-day workshop validated the National Framework for climate Services in Sierra Leone.
According to officials, the document will help the agency to effectively carry out its core service expansion drive.
By Francis H. Murray
The Ministry of Labour and Social Security under its National Social Safety Net (NSSN) program has met stakeholders and other development partners to popularize the country’s first National Ageing Policy.
By Kemo Cham
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is wasting no time to put into motion moves to act in respect to the just released 2019 Auditor General’s Report.
The Commission said on Monday that three officials attached to the National Covid-19 Emergency Response Center (NaCOVERC) have been detained in relations to missing laptops and the controversial procurement of luxury (SUV) vehicles, as captured in the reports released by Audit Service Sierra Leone.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
