By Kemoh Sesay
Isha Johnsen led Football Association with support from Leocem has commenced its annual FA cup football tournament over the weekend in the northern provincial headquarters town of Makeni.
According to the organizers 190 teams are expected to take part in the tournament.
By Mabinty Kamara
More than sixty patients admitted at the Connaught Hospitalin central Freetown, including nurses, have received food items from a local humanitarian organisation known as Freedom to Feed the Needy.
The charity based mainly in Freetown has a goal to provide for the needy in the country regardless of race, colour or sex.
The food was provided for wards 1 and 2, the latter being children’s ward. Patients and nurses in the two wards appreciated the move made by the organization to remember those who are sick in the hospital.
Appointed Mayor of Koidu
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
Local Government authorities in Kono have wasted no time to replace embattled Mayor Saa Emmerson Lamin just days after he was suspended on allegations of financial and administrative impropriety.
By Umaru Fofana
The UN children’s agency, UNICEF, has confirmed that 68 cases of measles have been reported in and around Freetown so far this year.
It comes as reports emerge of a similar outbreak in Kono, Bo and Port Loko districts.
The Freetown cases are said to be “epidemiologically linked to cases seen last year” according to laboratory tests which have however not confirmed the genetics.
By Mustapha Sesay in Makeni
After over three decades, Makeni has finally got pipe borne water supply.
The newly installed water supply system was pre-commissioned on Tuesday in Makeni. The project, dubbed the ‘Three Town Water Project’, partly funded by the African Development Bank, was implemented by the Sierra Leone Water Company (SALWACO).
By Hassan Ibrahim Conteh
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) has held a one-day consultative conference aimed at combating drug abuse in the country.
By Mabinty Kamara
The Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL) has announced a new model by which all commercial banks should calculate their prime lending rates.
The new model to calculate base rate, as it is referred to in financial jargons, which came into effect on March 1, will serve as a basis on which the minimum lending rate/ otherwise called the Prime Lending Rate, will be calculated so that banks avoid losses, BSL officials said.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
