American Red Cross honors Sierra Leonean
On Monday, June 18, 2012, the American Red Cross in partnership with Special People In Northeast Inc.(SPIN inc), proudly honored Direct Support Professional, Dauda Kamara, as he received the distinguished Certificate of Merit, signed by the President of the United States, for his act of heroism in performing life sustaining CPR to an individual who [...]
Towards Food Self Sufficiency: A Perspective on Agricultural Achievements in Sierra Leone part (1)
July 3, 2012 No Comment
By Abraham Karl Samura : Since independence, the agricultural sector has been a dominant economic sector in Sierra Leone. Accounting for about 80% of employment in the country, successive governments have at one time to the other made attempts to put agriculture at the forefront of their development agendas. In practical terms however, little could [...]
Continue reading …Alpha Kanu delivers powerful message about the Public Service as an agent for promotion of African integration
July 3, 2012 No Comment
During last year’s AU meeting in Malabo, African ministers responsible for the public service resolved to declare June 23rd as the African Public Service Day. The Heads of States and Governments agreed that all African governments should celebrate the day every year thence. HON. ALPHA KANU Sierra Leone has more reason than any [...]
Continue reading …ACC encourages health workers in Makeni to support President Koroma’s Free Health Care Initiative
July 3, 2012 No Comment
ACC’s Director of Outreach Mr. Shollay Davies (centre) addressing health workers on the Free Health Care policy and the ACC’s position As a way of enhancing effective service delivery in the Free Health Care programme, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has engaged health workers in Makeni. This was in the form of a sensitization meeting at [...]
Continue reading …As Sierra Leone makes dramatic progress towards self-sufficiency in food production , President Koroma and Agriculture Minister declared champions of CAADP in Africa.
July 3, 2012 No Comment
The Minister of Agriculture Forestry and Food Security, Dr. Sam Sesay Monday 2nd July 2012 said in Freetown that Sierra Leone has within a limited period of time made tremendous gains in the agricultural sector under the All Peoples Congress (APC) led government of President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma “Sierra Leone has made significant breakthrough [...]
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By Ibrahim Mansaray, Freetown, Sierra Leone : Wole Soyinka and John Pepper Clark are two renowned poets from black Africa. Whilst in the university, I read two poems with the same name but with different backgrounds by both poets . Both wrote about an evil spirit child , called ”Abiku”, whose motive is to torment [...]
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By Alfred Kabia Public Relations Officer in the Ministry of lands, Country and the Environment :— Hon. Ahmed Khanou (Dep. Min. holding the Mic) and panelists addressing participants. The Deputy Minister of Lands, Country Planning and the Environment, Hon. Ahmed Khanou, has intimated participants in a one-day Western Area Urban validation on the Draft National [...]
Continue reading …President Koroma’s free health care program soars higher as Saudi King donates massive consignment of medical supplies
July 3, 2012 No Comment
PRESIDENT KOROMA : Alhaji Jalloh reports from Saudi Arabia : In its quest to improve and sustain President Koroma’s free health care initiative, the Government of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, has dispatched a consignment of medicines worth millions of Saudi Riyals to Sierra Leone. According to the Acting Director General, [...]
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By: State House Communications Unit : President Ernest Bai Koroma has returned to Freetown after attending the Forty-First Ordinary Session of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government in Yamoussoukro, Cote D’Ivoire. In his welcome address, the current Chairman of ECOWAS President Allasane Quattara said the meeting was held to take a mid-term review [...]
Continue reading …How Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Koroma was able to amaze a former political opponent : “He is a conscientious nation-builder’
July 2, 2012 No Comment
Pa Baimba Sesay-China : President Ernest Bai Koroma has not only succeeded in impressing his supporters, party loyalists and the international community, but even those who were at some point his political opponents, have not only declared their support for him, but have today joined hands in advocating for the country’s development. We have witnessed [...]
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