At the end of the third Moot Court competition on International Humanitarian Law (IHL), organized by the International Community of the Red Cross (ICRC), Fourah Bay College (FBC) has again emerged as winners for the third time since the start of the competition. The FBC will therefore be representing the country in this year’s competition[...]

The Political Parties Registration (PPRC) has inaugurated the political party’s code of conduct and monitoring committee at the forest industries canteen in Kenema. The chairman of PPRC Justice Sydney Warne addressing representatives of civil society groups and various political parties said the function of PPRC is not only to register political parties but also to[...]

The World Bank, through the Institutional Reform and Capacity Building Project (IRCBP), has donated a huge quantity of teaching and learning materials to some schools in Kono and Kenema districts. The chairman of the occasion, Peter Thomas who is also the Deputy Director of Education East (DDE), expressed sincere gratitude for the donation saying that the[...]

Learning became a new experience for medical students at the Department of Community Health, Fourah Bay College campus, when technology was injected into their lectures. The drab blackboard and chalk used by the department to aid lectures were replaced by ultra-modern technologies: a project screen, a data projector-Dell and a Dell Inspiron 6400/E1505 Laptop valued[...]

Gone are the days when Bo Town (the former southern district headquarter town but now referred to as one of the newly created cities of Sierra Leone—that’s another story because Freetown itself could be called a big village coming out of the Iron Age) was the envy of many Freetown residents because of several uniqueness[...]

GTZ’s Food Security, Reconciliation and Consolidation of Peace project in the border chiefdoms of Kono and Kailahun districts on Thursday became a day’s host to eight foreign journalists at its regional head office in Kenema. Welcoming the delegation to Kenema and giving a background on the project, GTZ’s team leader Karlheinz Eyrich said the government[...]

Staff and volunteer trainees from the NaCSA Peace and Development Corps (pedeco) programme have paid a courtesy call on senior officials of the National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA) at their regional office in Kenema. The executive secretary of NaCSA, Sahr Kpulum presenting the group to the NaCSA regional coordinator and staff, noted that the[...]

Leading shipping and airfreight company, Redcoat Courier Service has now been taken over by the world’s largest package delivery company: United Parcel Service (UPS). To venerate the amalgamation, Kamino Redcoat and UPS on Thursday, organized a float parade to officially launch its new partnership. During the carnival-like float parade, stunning damsels clad in the new[...]

Displeased victims of the proposed “hillside road” on Saturday assembled at the Amaria School, Mountain Cut in Freetown, to hang heads on how they could collate their conveyances for tendering to lawyers to brawl out their concerns. One of the victims, Alimamy Kamara, explained that “we were informed by the Sierra Leone Roads Authority (SLRA)[...]

At the end of the third Moot Court competition on International Humanitarian Law (IHL), organized by the International Community of the Red Cross (ICRC), Fourah Bay College (FBC) has again emerged winner for the third time since the commencement of the competition.It will be representing the country in this year’s competition in Arusha, Tanzania. “You[...]