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  Invitation for Bids BOMBALI DISTRICT COUNCIL SUPPLY OF STATIONERY Procurement Number: BDC/ADM/NCB/001/2020 Date of First Issue: 13 th July, 2020 The Bombali District Council has allocated funds for the Procurement of Stationery   and now invites sealed bids from eligible bidders for the supply of the aforementioned. A List of items to be procured can be obtained from the schedule of requirements in section VI of the bidding Document. Bidding will be conducted through the National competitive bidding procedure in accordance with National Public Procurement Authority(NPPA) Acts, 2016 and b idding is open to all suppliers who can demonstrate technical and financial capabilities to supply stationery to Bombali District Council in a FRAME WORK CONTRACT. Interested bidders may obtain further information and inspect the bidding document at the address below between the hours of 9:am- 5pm daily Mondays to Fridays.    Bidding documents may be purchased...

By:Sumner Kongbap Last Monday, residents of Fonima, Funkia, Sherbro Town, Bush Water, Adonkia, Gbendembu among other areas in the Goderich community pledged their loyalty and unflinching support to the principal, administration and staff of the Milton Margai College of Education and Technology (MMCET) polytechnic to among others protect the college land, property and other facilities reiterating that they are at all times ready to support and collaborate with the college administration.   They made this assurance at a dialogue meeting of stakeholders representing the various communities at the Great Hall of the college campus, Goderich in Freetown during which Mr. Malagie Kamara explained the reasons for the dialogue meeting and introduced members of the community. The principal of the college, Dr. Philip John Kanu enlightened that government has secured huge funds from BADEA to advance the college that cannot be actualized without land, that his three main objectives to impr...

By Amin Kef – Ranger Pavi Fort-Sierra Leone, Chief Executive Officer, Alimou Barrie and his team were in Bo District on the 23 rd June 2020 to give humanitarian support geared towards providing assistance to curtail the chain of transmission of the coronavirus in that part of the country. It was a continuation of Pavi Fort’s nation-wide donations of cash, food items and protective equipments targeting all the 16 districts in the country.   The CEO and team donated 120 bags of rice, 40 gallons of hand sanitizer, a 10 million Leones cheque, 5 million Leones cash, and 3,000 N95 face masks all totalling 120 million Leones to the BO DICOVERC during a well-attended ceremony that took place at the Bo District Council.   Handing over the donation to the Bo DICORVERC Coordinator, David Fortune, the Chief Executive Officer of Pavi Fort S/Leone, Alimou Barrie, intimated the gathering that he decided to join in the fight against COVID- 19 out of the passion to complement Govern...

By: Abdulai Mansaray. Just when you think that Sierra Leone has had enough COVID on its plate, up pops another controversy. Our country has just played host to a sizeable number of its citizens returning, repatriated, or deported from, Kuwait. Take your pick. Interestingly, the timing has not been clever; leading to the usual rumours galore. Rumours about over fifty of the reported 75 returnees; as suffering with COVID symptoms have been doing the rounds. No surprises there. It is also alleged that this is the reason why they were sent back from Kuwait in the first place; which sits conveniently with the modus operandi. As expected, they have been placed in “quarantine” subject to tests and medical clearance. This has since been the talking point from all parties. The resulting anxieties from all parties are understandable.  With such a backdrop, the” locals” who seem to believe that our citizens were “deported” because they are COVID infected is bound to understandably gene...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-WILSON) The football family in Sierra Leone is sadden by the death of James Strasser, one of the longest surviving former Sierra Leonean International and East End Lions forward who passed away in Freetown on June 10, and has been buried. His family has confirmed.   The goal puncher died at age 83 and he will be remembered for being one of the greatest players of all times in Sierra Leone. He was a famous seaman who played with barefoot in his era with E.E Lions in the late 1950s as a defender, midfielder and striker in Freetown where he made his debut for Lions in 1958 and scored his first goal for the club, his first of many after he was introduced to the Elders of the club by his closest friend, Amadu Okoro Kamara. The former E.E Lions talisman won several League titles during his brief spell with the elite club and was loved by fans for his regular goal scoring ability though his soccer career was paired with fishing. His space in the cl...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-WILSON) Popular  home based Dancehall Musician and song writer Rap Gee,  in solidarity with the #Justice4KhadijaManinatuSaccoh campaign have    joined hands with  Sierra Leonean Striker and last season Swedish top flight golden boot winner, Mohamed Buya Turay  to release a song titled “Justice for Khadija” which  calls to  action Authorities in Sierra Leone to help end  rape in the country. The song which was released on June 21, 2020 following the sad News about the death of an infant girl child aged 5 years, Khadija Maninatu Saccoh who’s corpse autopsy confirmed on Saturday, June 20, 2020 that she died of rape break out. On that same day Buya reacted to the unprecedented act of rape and wrote the following on his Facebook page: “Today I am sad. I am angry. The death of this child, Khadija Saccoh because of rape is EVIL and UNACCEPTABLE. My heartfelt condolences to the family. We cannot look away from t...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-WILSON) The current President of the Makeni Artist Union – (MAU), Milton Franklyn Koroma alias Stuntman who doubles as a multitalented Song writer and producer has on Sunday, July 5, 2020 discharged self centred Disc Jockeys and other imposters attempting and meddling into the affairs of the union with selfish intentions geared towards bringing disrepute into the unification process and affairs of the elite group which has over the years posed threats to the smooth running, he stressed. He said this on a local network in Makeni few days after some embattled Executive Members of the Union and some DJs took to a low key media campaign against his leadership, whose tenure of office they claimed have elapsed since July 1 st this year but that he is still tight lipped about announcing a date for another election since he was elected some two years ago. In an interview with Northern Times, the MAU President, Stuntman referred to the said claim as a fallacy...