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By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

People across Sierra Leone can today start travelling to any part of the country following a presidential declaration on Tuesday ending over two months of a blockade imposed as part of measures to curb the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

The King Jimmy Bridge, which was recently renovated after five years of overflowing with sewage and causing environmental hazard, is again overflowing.

The bridge which is located at Wallace Johnson Street in Freetown links the city’s main health referral facility, Connaught Hospital, to the rest of the Central Business District.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

Minister of Technical and Higher Education, Professor Aiah Kpakima, has said that lecturers of colleges and universities must embrace digitalization in the delivery of their lectures or quit.

He said there could be no place in the education system for any lecturer who didn’t delivery his lecture notes online.

BY Mabinty M. Kamara

The government of Sierra Leone is expecting 17 virologists (specialists in the study of viral diseases) and other medical experts from Cuba and Lebanon to join the local medical personnel combat COVID-19 in Sierra Leone.

By Francis H. Murray

Police in Sierra Leone say investigations tino the death of a five-year old child who was allegedly raped are in progress.

A police spokesman said four people have been taken into custody and were helping them in their investigation. Superintendent Brima Kamara, Media and Public Relations Officer, said those detained include the main suspect, a boy who is thought to have raped the child – Khadija Saccoh - and her aunt. Both the boy and the aunt, as well as a third detainee, are said to be relatives of the victim.

By Politico Staff Writer

The Minister of Lands, Country Planning and the Environment, Dr. Dennis Sandy, has officially handed over 223 acres of resurveyed land to the Milton Margai College of Education and Technology (MMCET), Goderich campus. Dr Sandy personally handed over the land to the Principal of the college, Dr Philip Kanu, on Thursday at a short ceremony in the conference room of the Ministry of Information and Communication.

By Politico Staff Writer

A charity group in Kuwait known as Esteemed Kuwaiti Ladies has sponsored the drilling of bore holes in Koinadugu District. The donation, which was done through Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Kuwait, Haja Isata Thomas, is part of ways to give much more access to safe drinking water to rural communities in the country.

Four boreholes were drilled in different areas in the district; Gbawuria, Kabala Town, Bankolia, and Kamanemeh. The project was implemented by Ishata and Abbassie Thomas Foundation in Sierra Leone.