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By Joseph Lamin Kamara

Crown Technical University College is encouraging Sierra Leoneans to go in for technical training at tertiary institutes where formal education at universities such as Fourah Bay College appears impossible to acquire.

Dr Andrew Curtis, the proprietor of Crown, as the institute is also known, even thinks the job market needs more technically trained employees than people with formal qualifications in disciplines such as Law and Political Science.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi in Bo

The Criminal Investigation Department of the Sierra Leone Police in Bo is investigating the mysterious death of a man suspected to have been murdered.

27 year old Alhaji Alieu Shour`s body was found lying in his bed, according to police.

By Mustapha Kamara Jnr

West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR), a sub-regional broadcaster based in Dakar, Senegal, has commenced training of radio journalists on how to develop professional production and sensitive reporting techniques on the Ebola Virus Disease.

The training which is ongoing at the Hill Valley Hotel, on Signal Hill in Freetown, is funded by OXFAM International, a global non-governmental organization.

Sierra Leone officially began the 42-day countdown to the end of the Ebola epidemic with the symbolic discharge of the last patient who went down with the viral disease.

Adama Sankoh, 35, was discharged at a ceremony attended by President Ernest Bai Koroma who cautioned that while the nation seeks the end of the epidemic, those who lost their lives should remain in our prayers.

By Mustapha Sesay

The United Nations (UN) entity for gender equality and empowerment of women says it will help establish a forensic lab in the country.

UN WOMEN makes the statement days after the corpse of an 18-year-old lady was found naked on Aberdeen Beach in Freetown. The find of the remains of the deceased, Hannah Bockarie, was followed by a large vigil organized last Friday by Power Women 232, which the UN Resident Coordinator and the Country Representative of the global gender entity were part of.

By Mustapha Sesay

The African Youth and Children’s Network, AYCH-SL, has called on government to give more support to family members of deceased heath workers who lost their lives in the fight against the Ebola epidemic.

The latest call is one of many such advocacy efforts since the government, some nine months ago, promised to initiate a policy to give $5,000 to each family of health workers who died in the fight against the Ebola Virus Disease.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

A 16-year old girl in police custody in Kono over the

killing of her boyfriend has admitted stabbing him to death.
But Mary, not her real name, talking to Politico in an exclusive interview in detention at the Motema Police Division last week, said she did so in self defense.

The alleged incident occurred on August 14 in Jaima Town, Nimikoro Chiefdom. The victim, Sahr Gborie, 26, died after been stabbed following an altercation.