AWE Media Sierra Leone

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl Several Subscribers of Orange Sierra Leone’s Mobile Money Services “Orange Money” who won assorted food items as prices from the  leading telecommunication services provider Ramadan Promotion remains all cheering in the Northern region economic city. The Orange mobile money subscribers had won several food items as prizes from a raffle conducted by Orange Money staff at the entrance to the main market of Makeni city opposite the clock tower located along the central business district of the municipality. Food items won from the raffle by the pool of orange money subscribers from the Saturday Ramadan promotion includes boxes of tin tomato, Orange branded orange money backpacks, caps and t-shirts as well as tins of milk, 5kg sugar, and 5kg packs of rice among other condiments. Speaking on the purpose for the promotion, Abibatu Baxter, Head of Marketing Strategy and Partnerships for Orange Money Sierra Leone told Awoko Newspaper that: “the day...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl  Masongbo Community Health Center-(CHC), mosques and churches in the community have all been lit-up courtesy of one of its indigenes Foday “604” Tarawilie. Of the eight-(8) solar lights that were single handedly donated to each of the three mosques, two churches, the Community Health Center and two installed at the two entrances of Masongbo community have all brought succor to the community. The lights have now become the center of attraction in the community and parents interviewed have thanked the donor for the lights which they say are now used at night by their children to study, especially those in the primary and junior secondary schools NPSE and BECE examination classes. For health workers at the Masongbo Community Health Center, they say the solar light installed at the center is beginning to save them from much fear during the night’s hours and has so far boosted their confidence to attend to more patients in the night hours. As it...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl  The Senior District Officer-(SDO) of Bombali District Abubakarr Kamara has issued a two weeks ultimatum to the Bike riders, Motor drivers and Traders Unions as well as Fuel Station Owners to harmonize their prices. Kamara issued the stern warning during a DiSec meeting between the Bike riders, Motor drivers and Traders Unions as well as Fuel Station Owners that was hosted at the Wusum Stadium in Makeni where the urged the said stakeholders to prepare and present lists of prices for passengers as well as assorted commodities as a way to ensure stability in transportation costs as well as the prices of commodities in the city and its environs. He disclosed that: “his office is working hand in gloves with member of the District Security Committee of Bombali-(DiSec) with other key stakeholders to set up “the Makeni Model” a scheme that will make way for uniform prices in commodity costs as well as transport fares in the northern region city an...

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