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A team of Police officers headed by Assistant Inspector General of Police North-West, AIG Jorwulor Ansumana Gbonnoh including the Resident Minister North-West Honorable HajaIsata Fatmata Abdulai Koroma upon a tip-off information went to Mayorsor Village in the Makonteh Section, Bureh Chiefdom in the Port Loko District wherein they were able to discovered five hundred and seventy six (576) assorted bags of fertilizers stolen from the Sierra Leone Agriculture store at Banthorng in Port Loko District. According to Assistant Inspector General of Police North-West Ansumana Gbonnoh said to this medium that a report was made by chief Bundu Sesay that thieves have successful broken and entered in the Agricultural store and carted away five hundred and seventy six bags of assorted fertilized meant for community farmers. He revealed that police team including forensic analyst immediately went to the scene of crime and took samples of trace for analysis to substantiate liable information in ord...

The rate of early school leavers in Sierra Leone is considerably high, many of the early school leavers falls within the youth’s age brackets of 18-35 years and most of such youths remained unemployed in some parts of the country. Some of these youths on daily basis struggle to make their ends meet, so they take up to doing odd jobs, involving in cliques, arm rubbery groups etc as their means for survival. They are therefore, called names and are mostly referred to as thieves, half baits, Idlers, Gangsters, Drop-outs and more. Munafa-M’Patie Foundation a leading local Non-Governmental Organization with support from Child Fund Child Fund International Sierra Leone has on Friday 15th March, 2019 graduated eighty youths selected from Biriwa, Safroko Limba and Paki Masabong Chiefdom. These 80 male and female youths have successfully gone through various Vocational Training Skills in Agriculture and Survey, Business Management, Construction and Building, Carpentry, Tailoring, ...

Environment Protection Agency and partners on Thursday 14th, March 2019 at the Makeni City Council Multipurpose Hall has engaged Stakeholders in a day’s workshop as part of the Agency’s nationwide tours to Develop a National Action Plan for Mercury Reduction and Sustainable Development for Sierra Leone in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining Sector. The day’s dialogue brought together various individuals from mining and non mining areas that all deliberated meaningfully on the subject and thus stated challenges they are facing in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining and their communities. According to an EPA staff, who also double as Chairman Implementation and Compliance Committee of the Minamata Convention on Mercury and National Coordinator of the project Mohamed Abdulai Kamara the Stakeholders Engagement Workshop is in line with EPA’s commitment to ensure that Sierra Leoneans go by the recommendations of the Minamata Convention on Mercury that will preven...

Top military Personnel of the Republic of Sierra Leone Arm Forces (RSLAF) and stakeholders within and outside Makeni, have colourfully decorated 11 newly promoted gallant gentlemen officers at the premises of the 4th infantry brigade, situated at Teko road in Makeni Bombali District, Northern Sierra Leone. The decoration ceremony was staged few days after correspondences were sent to various brigades in the country informing them about the promotion of certain officers to the rank of Captains and Majors respectively. The promotion cut across regions in the country, with officers promoted from almost all the brigades in the country. According to investigation made by this medium, amongst the eleven officers that were promoted, six were promoted to the rank of Captains and five of them promoted as Majors chronologically as per the military structure. At the ceremony, orderliness and happiness was highly sensed, with motivational statements from the 4th Infantry Brigade Commander, Bri...

Unfinished road projects by successive road contractors, governments, and some road construction companies, and the lack of proper maintenance culture and structures over the years, particularly in the municipality of Makeni and other parts of the country has led to the deplorable conditions of major roads, as it affected all development sectors of a nation. In addressing some of these challenges present and past governments have made tireless attempts to improve the road network system in the country. Youth Build – Sierra Leone, a leading youths transformation and education center based in Makeni, Bombali District as part of its usual services to the community, on Friday, 15th March 2019 taken another lead role in helping out to salvage this problem as they rehabilitates Rogbaneh road, a road that is located at some parts of the heartbeat of the Makeni municipality in it central business area. Speaking to this writer, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mohamed Robinson S...

The dismissal of one amongst the country’s finest Journalist, Analyst, Social commentator and Consultant from the northern region headquarter city Makeni: Ibrahim Jalloh (Jallomy) from the Bombali Development Forum, has left many Patriots wondering. His sudden dismissal from the forum came few hours after a shared piece of his showing piles of waste at the central business Makeni main lorry park had gone viral with accumulate comments and concerns raised by forumites of many whatapp groups. Many attempts to muscle the press and deprived most people from exercising their freedom of expression has been seen and heard of in most places of recent times. Though the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone His Excellency Julius Maada Bio has made commitments to ensure that there is an absolute free press, this promise is seemingly seen as a white elephant that has contribute to the day efforts of anti-press individuals that are working on rendering this phenomenon null and void in t...

Modern School of Science and Business Secondary School - Makeni haven scored a total of 68 points edging other competing schools at the grand final of the inter secondary schools quiz competition, which took place at the Wusum Hotel Multipurpose hall, on Friday, 15th March 2019, emerged  winners of the first ever Dr. Vicent Lamina Kanu Education Trust Fund Inter Secondary Schools Quiz Competition, organized by two of the beneficiaries of the late Dr. Vicent Lamina Kanu, whose name the education trust is named after. The three weeks long Inter Secondary Schools Quiz Competition brought together for the first time in the history of Bombali District 12 secondary schools within and outside the cosmopolitan Makeni city in the Bombali District, in a forum many have described as a very friendly but very competitive atmosphere throughout the stages of the competition. Four schools out of the twelve competing schools qualified to the grand final at a very competitive contest and its final...