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Civil Society Organisations And Journalists Scrutinise Government Programmes In Kenema By: Zacharia Jalloh, Strategic Communications Unit, Ministry of Information and Communications A 2-day CSO and Media Retreat organized by the Ministry of Information and Communications on the theme "CONSOLIDATING DEMOCRACY: OUR COLLECTIVE, SHARED AND PATRIOTIC RESPONSIBILITY" has ended on a high note in Kenema City. The retreat, which was the third in a series, was held on the 25th-26th November 2022, at the Kenema City Hall. Over 250 participants from across Sierra Leone were in attendance. Officially declaring the sessions open on Friday 25th November, the Vice President of Sierra Leone, Dr. Juldeh Jalloh, commended the Ministry of Information and Communications for what he referred to as a wonderful initiative. He said the event was uniquely designed to not only bring government closer to the people but to put government programmes up for public scrutiny. He emphasized the need to have a...

  Cristiano Ronaldo: "I am not here in Qatar to talk about Manchester united or Messi. Not even about LGBT... I don't have a Club. My country is where I play my football... In terms of LGBT and Rainbow armbands, I have many kids so if I didn't have one you would start asking me about LGBT because you would be suspicious, even my armbands are always clean no different colors, but you asked the wrong man who has kids so we all know how kids are made, aren't we? With all due respect to the LGBT community though. And you ask me about Leo. This one I will answer. He is the best player in the world cup with me. If we were 20 years old we would be on Hattricks not on penalty goals. But here we are over aged still doing things we know and expectations are still high. I have no doubt he will be in the knockout stage of this tournament. He is a guy who doesn't enjoy my failures, so why would I enjoy his? Maybe his fans and mine are. But at a personal and professional level, ...

  LAGOS, Nov 27 (Reuters) - A consortium led by Portugal's builder Mota-Engil and two Chinese ventures has been shortlisted by Nigeria's Lagos state to build a $2.5 billion bridge that is expected to relieve severe congestion in the mega city, an official said on Sunday. The 37 kilometre Fourth Mainland Bridge, will be built under a public-private partnership. It will include three toll plazas, nine interchanges and a design speed of 120 kilometres per hour, said Jubril Gawat, a senior spokesperson for the Lagos state governor. Mota-Engil is partnering with China Communication and Construction Corporation and China Road and Bridge Corporation in the bid. China Gezhouba Group Company and China Geo-Engineering Corporation joint venture and a consortium led by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation are the two other shortlisted bidders. The winner of the bid will be announced before the end of the year, said Gawat.

 Welcome to Sierra Leone! The land of my birth. Sierra Leone can be found in the West cost of Africa.  My Country has so  many things in terms of natural endowment, but the majority swimming in abject poverty. as my able brother says in his poem" Africa is Rich but poor" Sineh .T. Mugieh. With the level of suffering employees go through to make things happen for their employers is far way overlooked from various angles. The Government, The labour ministry and the labour Union if  their is one.  Sierra Leone is one country were you will find people whose work makes no sense to society earn  a  better salaries than the ordinary man who is more qualify has the experience and who work round the clock to make things happen, who also may be taking care of five or ten people of his family. Did you know that still at this era! Where state laws, makes it clear that the minimum wage should be six hundred thousands Leone which is around ($58) equivalent working r...

 it's sadden with this our generation that's full of myopic people everywhere. When coming up as a child our society was well mannered with so much to look forward to in terms of respect, tradition, values and sociatal norms. in my time as a child, I was grown-up in a society where child will see evil and say this's evil , let me not do it. my time was full of mannered and culture inhabitants. simple fact was that,  when we where out on the street and we happen to do evil or disrespect elders, we will be dealt by our society before our complain reaches our homes. the saddest thing is that when our complain reaches home, the punishment will double. thoes days everyone trains you, that's  what I call society raise children. In the other hand, this present generation has found itself in a confused state.  The simple fact is, you will see children misbehaving in public and when society takes action by correct the mistakes of that child, that is when you would see all ...

 Don't surprise to know that the finance act of 2021 maintain similar GST  exemptions for telecommunications companies as to previous years.  in previous years GST was levied on promotional calls or data, that exceed 10% of the total billable, and un billable call and data used, which was given to customers by the companies still remains the same.   Also a minimum market price of LE, 650 per minute was charged when making calls per minute in the past months or years.  the finance act 2021 make a fundamental change by removing the minimum market price of LE 650 per minute call. this year act gives telecommunications companies the free Will to set their own prices.

This is Africa! where people intellect mean nothing, the voices of the electorate has nothing to do with political party ideology. It is crystal clear that Africa democracy is still in the verge of Micromanagement, where people are given no space to say what is in their minds. It is evident that we are still in the colonial era! But this time it has a new form which is the modern day slavery. My point is, if there is actually a 'democracy' governance system in Africa I am sure we could have gone pass this our current predicament. We are stock and block! No development no progress simply because of Micromanagement where our contribution means nothing. I'm of the belief that this will change if only we elect people of ideas Rather than clan men with no values, rather than cost to governance. African clergy men are really interesting, simply because, they can call political leaders to share their wisdom even if they know that they are village fouls. We will only be better of...