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By Mustapha Sesay

Fourah Bay College lecturers late yesterday called off their sit-down strike which had gone on for almost two weeks. Lectures resume today - 14 March.

According to a letter from the Registrar of the University of Sierra Leone, Sorie Dumbuya to the Academic Staff Association (ASA), the deal was reached “following a series of meetings brokered by the FBC Alumni Association” between the university and the Academic Staff Association.

By Mabinty Kamara 

Three people were struck by lightening in Mile 91 on Tuesday and died instantly, amid a heavy thunderstorm.

Three others were left in a state of comatose but are said to have recovered.

The three killed were a 14-year-old JSS 1 pupil who was washing her clothes, a 24-year-old who was passing by from fetching water with yellow jerrycans.

The incident happened in the same compound.

Among those who went into coma was a one-year-old boy, according to a police source.

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay 

The match fixing investigation committee of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) has announced that it has identified ten people to be investigated over a match fixing scandal that first surfaced two years ago.

By Hassan Ibrahim Conteh

The dream of the Government Technical Institute (GTI) to graduate to a poly-technical institute has hit a snag after the Ministry of Education declined to grant it the necessary license, the institute’s administration has claimed. They said they have met all the necessary requirements expected of an institute to attain a poly-technical status.

By Mustapha Sesay

The General Manager (GM) of Radisson Blu Mammy Yoko Hotel, Nuno Neves, said Wednesday the hotel has been chosen among other hotels in Africa to be honored for the hospitality provided to international guests during the Ebola crisis in the country.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

The Sierra Leone Police have been accused of bias after it emerged that they have dropped investigation on the attack of the mayor of Koidu City, Saa Emerson Lamina.

By Crispina Taylor and Tanu Jalloh

Opposition Member of Parliament, Dixon Rogers, has called for the resignation of newly appointed minister of information whom he accused of lying under oath in parliament, in complete breach of basic standards for probity.

Under the 1991 Constitution a minister or a deputy minister “shall not enter upon the duties of his office unless he has taken and subscribed the oath for the due execution of his duties as set out in the Third Schedule”.