Edited – Mary Raine speaks on elections coverage in small countries

BBC

By Zainab Kanu

Ms. Mary Raine, former Editor, Radio News Features with the BBC World Service, is presently in Freetown working with the media and other related organizations on training for elections coverage.

In an interview with this Reporter, she stated that even with all her experience in the [...]

Edited: Opening remarks by Kumba Ngongou, Head of Corporate Affairs, Standard Chartered Bank

Standard Chartered Bank

at the Teach English Radio Presenters Training at the  British Council Hall, at 9:00 am on Wednesday, January, 18th, 2012

Presenters from the various Radio Networks, Our Guest Facilitator from Fourah Bay College, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen.

On behalf of the British Council, Standard Chartered Bank and Plan Sierra Leone, [...]

Edited: Standard Chartered Bank opens third ‘Teach English Radio’ Presenters Training Programme

Standard Chartered Bank

The British Council and Standard Chartered Bank have concluded a two-day training workshop (18th – 19th January 2012) aimed at equipping another batch of Radio Presenters across the country on advanced presentation skills; to facilitate the on-going ‘Teach English Radio’ programme meant  to empower teachers nationwide to teach standard English language in Sierra [...]

I Hang My Case! When journalists dance the corporate dance…?

With Theophilus Sahr Gbenda, (Journalist/Fixer/Campaigner)

PLEASE ENJOY THIS DIALOGUE BETWEEN ME (THEO NICOL) AND MY GOOD FRIEND, NAME SAKE AND JUNIOR COLLEAGUE, THEOPHILUS GBENDA, WHO SENT IN A VERY INTERESTING ARTICLE AS A REJOINDER TO AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN NEWS HUNTERS LAST WEEK.

MY RESPONSES TO HIS POINTS ARE IN CAPITAL LETTERS. 

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ACC meets St. Joseph’s School for the Hearing and Impaired in Bombali District

Manager Sandi (Middle) updating the audience on the activities of the ACC

 

Manager Sandi (Middle) updating the audience on the activities of the ACC

The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) drive to fight against corruption in Sierra Leonecuts across all boundaries regardless of ones physical status.  This was clearly manifested on Tuesday, 22nd November, 2011 when the Commission’s Officers sensitized pupils and staff of the St Joseph’s [...]

Young people engage in peace building and development campaign

Herbert Bangura Executive Director Young Peace Builders Sierra Leone

By Maddieu A. A. T. Kabbah

Herbert Bangura Executive Director Young Peace Builders Sierra Leone

On November 19 this year, forty five young people from different secondary schools and communities converged at the headquarters of Young Peace Builders at Peter Lane in  Freetown where the undertook a one day training session for peace building [...]

Mines Ministry to introduce new mining policy

Cadastre and Repository System

By Zainab Kanu

In a bid to improve the mining sector of this country so as to attract investors in the sector, the country, will in a month’s time start mining operations with a new technological system called the Cadastre and Repository System.

Speaking at a press conference yesterday at the Ministry’s conference hall [...]

SL Commercial Bank unveils Jubilee Savings Promotion

Sierra Leone Commercial Bank

By Bampia Bundu

One of the leading commercial banks in the country, the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank, yesterday unveiled the Jubilee Savings Account Promotion for low and high income earners at the bank’s headquarters at Siaka Stevens Street in Freetown.

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