Provincial

Bo City Council Supports YMCA Youth Project

2010-04-01T08:43:58Z

The Mayor of the Bo City Council, Dr. Wusu Sannoh has appointed Councilors Josephine Makieu, Alpha Bah and Alusine Kamara to work with YMCA on the Supporting Youth Livelihood Governance project intended to give young people the capacity to make them employable and hold political leaders accountable.

SLBS TV Sets Disappear in Kenema

2010-03-31T02:17:02Z

The people of Kenema would have now been enjoying the opportunity of viewing public television programmes located at strategic points across the city, had it not been for the selfish behavior of some of their own sons of the soil.

HOW BANTA RESIDENTS KICK THEIR BLESSING

2010-03-01T09:38:52Z

Residents of Mokanji, Banta Chiefdom, Moyamba District are today in a mood of melancholy as they took advantage of the rebel war to cannibalize the SIEROMCO bauxite processing plant, staff quarters and administrative blocks, and looted both vehicles and equipment for there selfish ends. Even the hospital wasn’t spared. Many of them thought at the end of the war, the Company would rebuild its demolished infrastructure but such expectation has remained a pipe dream reminiscing the good old days of SIEROMCO in Mokanji.

Freetown Mayor Partakes in KLIN KONO Exercise

2009-10-02T14:04:02Z

The Mayor of Freetown His Worship Herbert Williams was over the weekend in Koidu City, Kono District to support the KLIN KONO exercise
organised by the District Council Chairman John Yambasu common known in the district as Governor and the Mayor of Koidu New Shebehun City

FARM FIRE CLAIMS 64 HOUSES IN MOYAMBA

2009-04-22T14:47:27Z

Councillor Ishmail Momoh deputy chairman of Moyamba District Council has informed this press that 51 houses were burnt down on Friday 11th April at Taninihun Mboka in the Kongbora chiefdom and on the 14th April 13 houses were also on fire in Lago, Kagboro Chiefdom all in the Moyamba district.

The fire was reportedly caused by the inhabitants of the villages in the process of burning their farms. Most of these farms were few meters away from the villages.

Councillor Momoh says food items and properties were burnt down but there is no report as yet of dead.

He said the neighbouring villages are presently harbouring some of the fire victims.

The Moyamba District Council is working vigorously to help the victims medically and otherwise.

Meanwhile some disaster management agencies are visiting the sites to make a proper assessment.

Fire destroys 38 HOUSES in Pujehun

2009-04-07T18:00:18Z

Fire disaster recently in Kakuwalie in the Kapanda Kabondeh Chiefdom, Pujehun District destroyed 38 houses. Kakuwalie is four miles off Gbondapi a trading community. The victims of the inferno are asking government and humanitarian organizations to render emergency humanitarian assistance as the incident left them without food, shelter and medicine.

SLPP ready to make Kenema greener

2009-03-03T15:09:57Z

The Sierra Leone Peoples’ Party (SLPP), will this weekend hold its national convention in the provincial headquarter town of Kenema; east of the country. It will be for the election of a new executive of the party. Paul k. Joseph out gone Eastern Region President of Sierra Leone Association of Journalists said every hotel and guest house has been booked already and entertainment spots booming in the face of “global” or hard times.

13 year old raped to death in Bo District

2009-02-18T01:01:29Z

The rampant cases of rape in the country appears to be on the increase. Bo district residents are in a state of shock and disappointment after the unfortunate death of a thirteen year old girl resulting from raped, by one Sheku Sandy who is now helping the Bo Police with investigations into the matter.

Extra classes barred in Kailahun

2009-02-18T01:00:42Z

The Deputy Director of Education in Kailahun District, east of Sierra Leone has placed a ban on all private or extra lessons on school campuses within the district. Aloysius M. Gassimu told the press that extra classes conducted in schools by teachers are weighing heavily on the government’s policy of education for all.

20-Year-Jail term for Cocaine Trafficker

2009-02-18T00:26:40Z

The Bo High Court presided over by Justice Naomi Tunis has sentenced a thirty five year old man, Nwadiolor Iseamyi Ifezuo to twenty years imprisonment for unlawful possession of a large quantity of cocaine. In a judicial hearing at the Bo High Court the Principal State Counsel of the Law Office, Monfred Sesay told the court that Ifezuo was found guilty of unlawful possession of Cocaine contrary to the Drug Act 2008.