By Crispina Cummings
Parliament has ratified a $12.2 million loan agreement between Sierra Leone and the Arab Bank for Economic Development (BADEA) for the rehabilitation and expansion of Fourah Bay College.
Former diplomats to be quizzed
Sierra Leone's former ambassador to China, Abdulai Karim Koroma and a former consular staff, Sahr Johnny are to answer to a number of queries from the Parliamentary Public Affairs Committee about observations made in the Auditor’s General Report of 2011 on the untilisation of public funds at the Sierra Leone embassy in China.
"Killer police" in court
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Alleged killer police, Christopher Sheriff Kamara, yesterday made his first appearance before Komba Kamanda who presides over Magistrates Court No 2 in Freetown.
Big boost for agriculture
Parliament has ratified $22 million loan for rural finance and community improvement programme signed in Rome and Freetown between the Republic of Sierra Leone and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD in April.
China boosts Sierra Leone free health care
By Jenneh Braima
President Ernest Bai Koroma has signed a US$ 1.6 million contract with the People's Republic of China for the improvement of free health care and rice production in Sierra Leone.
President Koroma's portrait burned in his stronghold
Police in Mile 91 have confirmed that the giant portrait of President Ernest Bai Koroma was on Monday burned by angry youth loyal to his All People's Congress Party.
It followed disagreement over the party's choice for a candidate to run in the parliamentary bye-election slated for later this month.
