Ebola Update May 28 2014 Ebola Update 28th May, 2014 • No New Laboratory Confirmed Case of Ebola has been reported for today. Currently awaiting laboratory results from 9 samples collected through contact tracing • The Parliamentary team that left for Kailahun headed by the Deputy Minister of Labour has arrived safely. The team met […]...
By Ibrahim Sillah, Saudi Arabia Since the first creation of human species, there has been no sin so annihilating, so self-destructing, so resentful to God, and so detrimental to the individual and society like: envy, grudge and rancour, words alternately and synonymously used to more or less convey the same meaning. All the […]...
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By KABS KANU : The Minister of Health and Sanitation, Madam Miatta Kargbo, today assured Sierra Leoneans all over the world that the Government of President Ernest Bai Koroma was doing everything , in collaboration with our international health organization stakeholders , to solve the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. In an exclusive […]...
The young Editor-In-Chief of the opposition SLPP online newspaper, The New People, Mr. Abdul Fonti Kabia, has stirred the hornet’s nest . As the Government fights to stop the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, Mr. Fonti Kabia wrote on FACEBOOK and in his newspaper that the Minister of Health, Hon. Miatta Kargbo , had ordered […]...
Ambassador Ismael Koroma, Sierra Leone’s Deputy Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia on Monday 26th May, 2014 paid a courtesy visit on the Minister Counsellor and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Japanese Embassy in Addis Ababa, Mr. Kenji Yokota. The main thrust of the courtesy call which took place at the Chancery of […]...
John Baimba Sesay Sierra Leone’ Ambassador to South Korea, His Excellency Omrie Golley has during the month of May, joined his African counterparts in Seoul, in commemorating Africa Unity Day, which, in the words of envoy Golley means “celebrating the success of African unity, African culture and celebrating the African personality” As part […]...
By Alhaji M.B. Jalloh, Information Attaché, Saudi Arabia He has visited Sierra Leone thrice. He describes his visits as “very successful.” Saleh Alzahrani is a Saudi national who admires and loves Africans. He is the General Manager of Manaber Investment Company with offices in Mecca and Jeddah in the Western region of the Kingdom […]...
Added by Kabbs Kanu on May 27, 2014. Saved under Uncategorized Martin Kobler, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of MONUSCO, Zainab Hawa Bangura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict UN heads demand an immediate halt to the expulsion of DRC nationals and call on the authorities of the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) […]...
Food, often regarded as one of the basic needs of mankind seems to be a scarce commodity in many households in Africa. The state of malnutrition, especially in some poor rural communities, usually affects the health of children resulting in illnesses such as stunted growth, goitre, blindness and kwashiorkor. This, according to the World Health […]...
Six Members of the Sierra Leone single leg Amputee Soccer Association including Musa Mansaray, Jusu Vandi, Susan Davies, Albert Manley Mustapha and Jabati Mambu, Mambud Samai who are currently in the United States of America to participate in the 28th Annual Gullah Festival at the Technical College of the Low County 921 Ribaut Road Beaufort, […]...
Follow Akyereko on Twitter: @AkyerekOfficial Ghana’s Black Satellites fought from behind to down Sierra Leone 2-1 to advance to the final round of the 2015 African Youth Championship qualifiers on a 4-1 aggregate. The visitors stunned the home fans at the Tamele Sports Stadium when Ibrahim Konte bent a wonderful free-kick to beat Mutawakilu in […]...
Obituary Announcement of the late Abubakarr Sesay aka ‘Abu Community’ Freetown- 25th May, 2014 The Sesay Family regrets to announce the sudden death of their son and brother Abu Bakarr Sesay commonly known as ‘Abu community (52)’. He died on Friday 24th May, 2014 at the Connaught Hospital in Freetown. Abubakarr Sesay will be buried […]...
I have learnt from State House that a young and enterprising community activist of New Jersey, Mr. Ajibu Jalloh , has been appointed Deputy Government Spokesman. On behalf of my family and the COCORIOKO Newspaper Limited, I want to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Jalloh on his appointment and I wish him a very […]...
BY KABS KANU : One of the most learned men and the sweetest cream of the shortlist of eloquent speakers in the land is undeniably the man himself —- the young, inimitable Alhaji Apha Sahid Kanu– the wordsmith par excellence , the gifted and absorbing speaker who will keep you at the edge of your […]...
New York, 24 May 2014 – Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on the elections in Malawi The Secretary-General commends the people of Malawi for turning out in large numbers for the country’s first tripartite elections on 20 May. He has noted the preliminary observer statements, which indicate that the polling process was generally consistent with […]...
President Ernest Bai Koroma ‘s rural electrification program continues with news that Port Loko will start enjoying 24-hour hydroelectricity power by June next year. According to a report by Alhaji Armini , the Chinese constructors of the Bankasoka Hydroelectricity Project have promised faithfully to complete the project next year. PRESIDENT KOROMA ( IN LONG , […]...
By Hassan Bruz : Northern Bureau Chief If the determination of the People of Port Loko District in the promotion of Agricultural activities is to be emulated by Farmers in the other Regions of the Country, then the ultimate goal of National Food Security is bound to be achieved even before the slated period. This […]...
Director, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Christine Mullen Kreamer and Bonnie Berry, Assistant to the Director at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC, United States of America, on Wednesday May 21st, 2014 warmly received a four-man delegation from the Embassy of Sierra Leone, who visited an exhibition […]...
22 May 2014 London Mining is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the Platts Industry Leadership Award in the Raw Materials and Mining category for the development of its Marampa iron ore mine in Sierra Leone. The judges for the category cited London Mining’s track record for turning risk into reward by executing […]...