By Mustapha Sesay
It is evident that the All People’s Congress-led government has spent considerable amount of money on road infrastructure to ease transportation difficulties that has plagued the country for decades. But not much effort has been seen in the area of sea transportation, yet the country is cloaked in a web of rivers and the Atlantic Ocean.
By Mabinty Kamara
Mohamed Kargbo, Project Manager of the Peagie Woobay Scholarship Foundation (PWSF), has described girls as drivers of change in society. He said that’s why the organization was focused on empowering girls through education and mentoring.
By Mustapha Sesay
Students of polytechnics and teacher training colleges across the country went to campus yesterday just to be told to “go home”. Their lecturers have started an indefinite sit-down strike which, they say, they are in no hurry to call off until their demands are met, according to their Vice President, Mohamed Shaw.
Thousands of students are affected especially coming as it does at a time when they are either writing their exams or are preparing to do so in the coming days.
By Mabinty M Kamara
The city of Freetown is becoming notorious for indiscriminate garbage disposal. There is garbage all around the place, from back of school fences to market places, and even in cemeteries.
This has got some concerned citizens worried, prompting a debate on who is to be held responsible for the situation.
The Freetown City Council (FCC) is mandated by law to ensure the city is clean, but it is currently doing so through an intermediary, a privately run cleaning company called Masada, which it has accused of incompetence.
By pursuing the controversial Mamamah Airport project, Sierra Leone is not going against the advice of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), Samura Kamara, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, has said.
In an apparent response to a report carried by Politico, Kamara said in an interview in China that the government was working “closely” with the international lenders over the issue.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
