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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson) Sierra Leone based Non-Governmental Organization for Physically Challenged and Vulnerable Children: Action to Heal Foundation - Sierra Leone (A2HF-SL), Founder and Chief Executive Officer One; Madam Zainab Mummy Tholley has on Sunday 16 th June 2019 received an Ambassadorial Award in recognition of her mammoth contributions on the lives of Children especially vulnerable and physically challenged ones. The award was presented to her among other Child Rights Advocates and Philanthropists within and outside the North by the organizers of the award: Ibrahim Nelson Children Foundation at the Makeni City Plaza on African Childs Day where a day’s event was staged to commemorate and celebrate Children and individuals that have stood the test of times and has relentlessly been focused on advocating, supporting, nurturing, mentoring and showcasing Children’s intrinsic qualities and abilities at extrinsic folds. Upon receiving the Award, A...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson) One of the country’s committed, hardworking, trusts worthy youth: Amadu Wurie Timbo, who has been engaged in community services for several years now, has on 6 th June, 2019 successfully completed a water well project at Kuwait City, off Teko road in Makeni, Bombali District, north-eastern part of Sierra Leone. The constructed water well project according is Amadu Wurie Timbo was sponsored by Wendy Ward, a member of the Pepper Tribe a Non-Governmental organization that is based in abroad with quest of establishing its branch in Makeni for Sierra Leone which has two farming sites already in Makeni. He further said that the sponsor and other national and international members of the organization are committed to do more community services to the people of Makeni and the country by extension in the near feature. According to natives of Teko community, the water well project is warmly appreciated by them as they described Amadu ‘s...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson) On Saturday, June 8, 2019, African Accents International Institute at its campus situated at Timbo area, along the Makeni-Kabala Highway in the Bombali District, Northern Province of Sierra Leone has staged its first ever matriculation and graduation ceremony for its students, since the college was established in 2016. The day’s doubled packed ceremony all started with a match past from the central business area of Makeni City around the clock tower to the institute’s campus at Timbo area, along the Makeni-Kabala Highway where the occasion was called to order by the Deputy Registrar Mr. Foday Kargbo, who introduced the chairman of the occasion Mr. Alex Kapotho Kamara, who also doubled as the Registrar of the institute. In his opening statement the chairman of the ceremony gave a brief background of the institute, citing that the journey of establishing the institute all started in 2016 with few computers available at the institute ...

By: Sahr J. Bangah Abdul Karim Koroma now decease met his untimely death on the 12 th May 2019 at Masorkoh line in the Kholifa Rowalla Chiefdom, Tonkolili District in the hands of angry youths when he was mistakenly identified as a thief. The decease Abdul Karim Koroma was one the intelligent Prison Officer attached at Mafanta Correctional Center in the Tonkolili District and before his death, he was a Discipline Officer (DO) a position he held and displayed his professionalizing vigilantly without fair or favour until Sunday 12 th May 2019 when he met his untimely death in hands of five gallant youths alleged to have beat and later stone him to death. According to Madam Fatmata Namasa Sankoh, she recalled on Sunday 12 th May 2019 when she overheard a strange voice outside her window and immediately went there to identify what was going on only to her dismayed she saw the decease Abdul Karim Koroma in the mist of angry youths who she can identified beating the deceas...

By: Sahr J. Bangah A police constable PC 14704 Abu Bakarr Koroma attached at the Sierra Leone Police Academy at Makump Bana Village in the Bombali Sebore Chiefdom, Bombali District was yesterday arraigned in court before the presiding Magistrate Peter Gogra for the offence of Sexual Penetration of a child contrary to section 19 of the Sexual Offences Act No 12 of 2012 including Sexual Touching and Meeting of a Child for sexual purposed. According to the minor testimony at the Family Support Unit in Makeni, she disclosed that she is fifteen (15) years of age and she stayed with her grandmother. She recalled in sometimes in December 2018, the accused met her and proposed a love relationship with her but at the initiate stage she refused on the ground that she is a school pupil and wanted to be one of the few female educationist in the country. She revealed that the accused Abu Bakarr Koroma was able to convince her on the ground that he will automatically take care of her...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh (Jallomy) +232 768860 akempi@yahoo.com Democracy has definitional variations. That said, the core elements of democracy are people centeredness in governance, the right to belong and be part of a political shade of opinion, loosely called political party and, of course, the right to aspire for a political position including but not limited to the presidency of a state as prescribed in a document intentionally called the constitution.  Democracy is mostly a theoretical construct and its applicability varies from state to state; therefore its universal relevance cannot be consistent across states in the world.  For some countries in the world, that which is called democracy is nothing but a hopeless political ideal. A beautiful example of such a country is North Korea, a country where some few years ago, the country’s Premier was executed under the expressed order of the country’s leader for sleeping during a meeting presided over by the leader. ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson) Over 15 aggrieved workers of a leading business enterprise in Makeni Pee Cee and Sons situated along Kojo Street in Makeni, Bombali District Northern Sierra Leone has in the early morning of yesterday, 19 th June 2019 took to a peaceful demonstration against the Manager of Pee Cee and Sons Enterprise; DEEPERK Wagwanie. Leaders of the aggrieved workers revealed to Northern Times that they unanimously agreed to embark on a peaceful seat down demonstration against the manager and the enterprise by extension for working with them for over 24-30 Months ago with no contract binding them and their employer, for over using them at work from 7am -3pm daily as the case may be, for the use of abusive languages against them on regular basis by the said Manager DEEPERK Wagwanie, for failing to provide safety gears for cold-room workers, for recent action meted against a   co-worker of theirs that was allegedly slapped by the Pee Cee ...

By: Summner Komngbap With funds from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Advocacy Initiative for Development – Sierra Leone (AID-SL) has engaged key stakeholders in Kambia and Kono Districts on Adaptive Capacities of Climate Change on Water Services. This was disclosed on Friday 4th July 2019 by the Executive Director of AID-SL, Sylvanus Murray at his 17 Circular Road office in Freetown. He enlightened that since 2012, AID-SL has been working extensively with the UNDP in enriching and transforming lives and communities in Sierra Leone, that in April 2019, AID-SL successfully solicited funding from UNDP to implement an engagement titled:   ‘Awareness Raising on Adaptive Capacities of Water Services to Climate Change” in both Kono and Kambia Districts between April and July 2019 adding that AID/SL, in close collaboration with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in both districts, identified and mobilized the project communities, the beneficiaries. ...

By: Summner Komngbap The Ministry of Finance on Friday 12 th July 2019 signed the Memorandum of Understanding with universities and teacher training colleges in the country for a computerized payment system for academic, administrative and other staff at an impressive ceremony held at the Ministry’s conference room, George Street in Freetown. According to the Minister of Finance, Jacob Jusu Saffa, the new payment system would ensure prompt payment of salaries and other allowances for staff of universities and teacher training colleges nationwide as their salaries, transport, medical and leave allowances would be paid directly into their accounts articulating that government wants to effectively manage the payroll, the reason the Ministry of Education was separated into two but lamented that a new Ministry is very difficult to start. Jacob Jusu Saffa continued that universities and teacher training colleges would have to pay other expenses to lecturers and staff asserti...

By: Summner Komngbap The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations with the International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with the Government of Sierra Leone with support from the Peace Building Fund (PBF), on Thursday 11th July 2019 concluded a 2-days workshop on Gender and Land Rights within the framework of implementing the PBF project on  'Creating Peaceful Societies Through Women's Improved Access to Management of Natural Resources, Land Tenure Rights and Economic Empowerment in Sierra Leone.' The workshop brought together over 40 stakeholder and traditional authorities from four (4) districts of Bombali (North), Port Loko (North West), Bo (South) and Kenema (East) were the project is being implemented. In attendance were 8 Paramount Chiefs, 16 Section Chiefs and 16 Mamie Queens. In promoting gender equality and peace building in Sierra Leone, sister agency the United Nations Women (UN Women) and the office of the UN Residence coor...