Sports betting and lottery company in Sierra Leone, Mercury International, has made a Le10 million donation as the Official Platinum sponsor for the Fourth Annual Education Excellence and Innovation Awards Ceremony.
Mercury gives Le 20M for prosthetics surgery
Sports Betting and Lottery Company, Mercury International has issued a Le20 million cheque to pay for Samuel Tenga's prosthetics surgery at Choithram hospital, Indore, India. Mr. Tenga, a poor teacher in Freetown, picked up the cheque on Wednesday 10 February 2016, at the company's headquarters in Freetown.
MPs trained on oversight, constitutional review
A team of parliamentarians from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) in the United Kingdom is in the country to conduct training for their local counterparts on effective oversight and constitutional review functions.
The three-day training being held at the Parliamentary Committee Room One aims at building the capacity of the law makers to ensure good governance.
600,000 mentally ill in Sierra Leone - says Psychiatrist
Dr Edward Nahim
By Umaru Fofana
Psychiatrist Dr Edward Nahim says there are 600,000 people in the country with one mental health problem or another, and warns the number is increasing.
Libya arrests Sierra Leone-flagged vessel
Libyan naval forces have seized a Sierra Leone-flagged oil tanker on suspicion of illegally entering Libyan waters in an attempt to smuggle gasoline, authorities said on Saturday.
Vietnam detains man from Sierra Leone over Ebola
A 27-year-old man has been quarantined at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam after traveling back from Africa with Ebola symptoms, local media reported on Sunday.
The man from central Binh Thuan province arrived at Tan Son Nhat international airport in the city on 11, February with Ebola symptoms, including high fever and dry cough, the online newspaper VnExpress reported.
He had worked as a photographer in Sierra Leone where he was being treated as a tuberculosis patient. Doctors in Freetown had earlier also diagnosed him with pneumonia.
World Bank commits $4M to Sierra Leone fishing sector
By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay
The World Bank Country Director Parminder Brar has announced the injection of US $4 million into Sierra Leone’s fishing sector.
Brar told journalists yesterday that the move was aimed at boosting the economy through the fishing sector which he said was largely underexploited.
“The money will focus on raising value added services in the fishing sector,” he said.
