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By Mustapha Sesay

The parliamentary oversight committee of Labor on Monday embarked on an over sight visit of a 107-acre land, the subject of a conflict between the National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT) and the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Country Planning.

The piece of land located in Waterloo was given as grant to NASSIT in 2005 for the purpose of building affordable housing, the director of Investment at NASSIT, Dr. Brima Baimba Kargbo, said.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

As dismissed soldiers of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) take their case to the Human Rights Commission (HRC), officials there have assured thorough investigation of their concerns. But the military command has ruled out any possibility of any redress outside the forces.

The aggrieved former soldiers, eleven of them, were dismissed for incitement, indiscriminate firing and theft, among other offences they allegedly committed while serving in the United Nations-backed African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).

By Aminata Phidelia Allie and Joseph Lamin Kamara

As the Supreme Court begins hearing the case filed by sacked Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana, lawyers representing the plaintiff have argued that the appointed Vice President, Victor Bockarie Foh, is in office in violation of Sierra Leone’s Constitution.

By Kemo Cham

The battle to safeguard Sierra Leone`s constitution is taking an international dimension as Sierra Leoneans in the United States justle for global attention. Two counter-demonstrations over the ongoing constitutional crisis sparked by the sacking of Samuel Sam-sumana as Vice President are scheduled for this Saturday.

By Mustapha Sesay

A group of Ebola survivors in the Waterloo Lumpa community over the week end refused to partake in an Ebola sensitization programme in protest against the organizers` failure to pay them for it.

The programme was organized by the children organization, Kids Advocacy Network (KAN), and it was part of their ongoing campaign against stigmatization of survivors and orphans of the deadly viral disease.

Chinese Centre for Disease Control (CDC), a team of medical experts working in Sierra Leone since the outbreak of Ebola last year, seems to be tightening its strategies against the deadly disease in the country.

At a meeting to discuss new plans and approaches on how to give the disease a final kick out of the country, the CDC head, Dr. Yin Zundong, singled out reviewing of the Ebola surveillance system in communities like Kossoh Town, Jui and Grafton in outer Freetown as the most effective method of tackling Ebola.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

One of the accused persons in the on-going trial at the Court Martial presided over by Judge Advocate Otto During has, prior to the commencement of last Wednesday`s proceedings, openly complained in court that he was ill.