By Dennis Kabatto – Ruby Johnson is not your typical beauty pageant Queen. Just over a month after her homecoming trip to Sierra Leone to mark the country’s 52nd Independence Anniversary, Miss Sierra Leone USA Ruby Johnson is back in Freetown to undertake a hard-hat internship with Octea Mining (formerly Koidu Holdings Ltd.). A mining engineering student in the US, Ruby is set to spend the next two months at Octea’s diamond mining site in Koidu, Kono in the Eastern Province getting first-hand experience of the industry in Sierra Leone. Ruby will travel back and forth to Freetown meeting with... Continue Reading
….of new registrar and registry agreements – DURBAN, South Africa, July 15, 2013/ — The first group of Internet Registries and Registrars has signed new agreements with ICANN (http://www.icann.org), bringing new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) into the home stretch of going live online. “This is a huge accomplishment,” said Fadi Chehadé, ICANN President and CEO. “We can see the last mile before the first new TLD is activated in the Internet’s root.” Chehadé made the comments during a ceremonial signing at the opening session of ICANN’s 47th Public Meeting in Durban, South Africa. Three companies signed the Registry Agreement (RA) while five others signed... Continue Reading
Since Gambian-Nollywood actress, Fatima Jabbe stepped out with Former President of Sierra Leone, Julius Madda Bio, at the Premiere of her latest film Shameful Deceit in London, rumours of romance has trailed the both of them. The romance rumour was given a wing with the way and manner that the Nollywood actress clutched the former president all throughout the night. Fatima who made it as one of the five finalist out of thirty two Actresses for this year’s African Oscar Awards in America as People’s Choice, said Maada Bio is a good man and a dear friend to her who... Continue Reading
By Dennis Kabatto – Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, a veteran feminist activist and politician was appointed Wednesday by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as the new executive director of UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (UN Women). Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka, a former South African deputy president from 2005 to 2008 succeeds Michelle Bachelet – the first executive director of UN Women since 2010 and Chilean president from 2006 to 2010- who resigned in March to run for a second term as president of Chile. The Secretary-General in a statement acknowledged Bachelet’s “commitment in spearheading the organization’s work on gender equality and... Continue Reading
…..President Koroma urges Sierra Leoneans during the launch of the Agenda for Prosperity. – His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has said at the official launch of the Agenda for Prosperity on Friday 12th July, 2013 at the Miatta Conference Centre that, the Agenda for Prosperity will be the country’s road map for the next five years in meeting the goal of becoming a middle income country and donor nation within the next 25 to 50 years. He however warned that prosperity is not a gift on a silver plata but only comes to those that go for it. The... Continue Reading
