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By Mustapha Sesay

Parliament has ratified a 5-megawatt solar electrification project agreement for Bo and Kenema in the southeast of the country.

The project which is estimated at $12million would be undertaken by a private Sierra Leonean owned company and it’s expected to be completed in May 2016. The project agreement, which was tabled in parliament by the Minister of Energy, when implemented would provide electricity for Bo and Kenema that have been without electricity for very long time.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

A female vocational training institute in Freetown says the country’s electricity supplying company is responsible for a fire accident on Monday, which destroyed its building and many other things.

The Progressive Women’s Association (PROWA) claims the fire outbreak at its OAU Drive building emanated from unstable power supply from the Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA).

By Umaru Fofana

Sierra Leone’s foreign minister, Dr Samoura Kamara was in Zambia and Kenya yesterday drumming up support to become President of the African Development Bank (AfDB).

He will later this week leave for Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom before returning home on 17^th May.

The election itself will happen at the 50 Annual Meeting of the Bank taking place in Abidjan in the week of 25-29 May.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Shandong Iron and Steel Group (SISG) Limited has promised to pay all outstanding debts accrued by the defunct African Minerals Limited (AML). But the Chinese company, which specializes in the manufacturing of steel and took over the Tonkolili Iron Ore project recently, has sent its first strong warning yet that it will no longer be business as usual for aggrieved creditors who use the country`s legal system to demand payment of their debts.

By Mohamed T. Massaquoi

Residents in the southern district of Pujehun, on the border with Liberia, have expressed worry about the impacts the closure of the border would have on them.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

Plaintiff lawyer, in the ongoing constitutional crisis matter before the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, has disagreed with the court’s decision to refuse their application to restrain Victor Bockarie Foh from functioning as Vice President.

Speaking to Politico, James Blyden Jenkins-Johnston representing the sacked Vice President, Alhaji Samuel Sam Sumana, said his team believedthat the injunction should have been granted.

By Bampia James Bundu

As con men increase the riff-off of unsuspecting members of the public at the ministry of lands, country planning and the environment, its spokesperson admits that “impersonation is a commonplace”.

Alfred Kabia told Politico at their Youyi Building offices in Freetown that people needed to ensure that they had met the right authorities in the ministry before they could start any transaction.