….Says NSEC Executive Director Robert Dolo – The Executive Director of the New Sight Eye Center (NSEC) in the Duport Road Community, Paynesville, Robert Dolo, has disclosed that the main aim for the Center’s Medical and Surgical Outreach Program is to make eye treatment accessible and affordable for rural dwellers across the country. Currently, Mr. Dolo said the Center’s Outreach Program is targeting dwellers in four of Liberia’s fifteen counties which include Rural Montserrado, Lower Bong mainly in the Bong Mines community and adjacent, Grand Cape Mount and Margibi. “Many of the various eye problems in the country are concentrated... Continue Reading
Boko Haram has struck once again, again after not so long when they had struck again. In this latest strike, over 100 villagers in a Christian predominant Izghe farming village were slaughtered, their homes were burned and stores looted. Re-inspired by the violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) the death vampire cult hopes to trigger such in Nigeria and pit Nigeria’s religious groups against each other to spill the blood they thirst for. God forbid. The terror bandits drove in, in 7 hilux vehicles according to eyewitnesses. This was not the first time terrorists drove freely in convoys within... Continue Reading
President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma on Monday 17th February received a certificate of appointment to serve as the Grand Chief Patron of the West African Institute of Insurance (WAII). The presentation, which was made by the Director-General of the institute, Fredrick Bowen-John, is in recognition of the services rendered to the institute by the President. Receiving the award at State House, President Koroma expressed profound delight in welcoming Mr. John home as he is the first Sierra Leonean to hold such a position at WAII. He described his leadership as very young, and said “we expect a new thinking.” President... Continue Reading
By Dennis Kabatto – Hoping to gain international support in the fight to stop the illicit financial outflows from Africa, a High-level panel chaired by former South Africa’s president Thabo Mbeki on Thursday called for cooperative global efforts to tackle the debacle. The Panel mandated to further explore and gain a better understanding of the nature of illicit financial flows out of Africa and assessing its impact on continental development, estimates about $50 billion has been lost to these illicit financial outflows each year since the beginning of the millennium. “This far outweighs the amount of official development assistance... Continue Reading
….Delivery ceremony of the first maps at a scale of 1:200 000 – Started in February 2011, the project consists of updating the country’s map coverage at a scale of 1: 200 000 in order to complete a national database and topographic maps covering the entire country. A ceremony of delivery of the first new maps was organized in Ouagadougou on January, 30th. The official ceremony of delivery of the 13 first new maps completed in the framework of the upgrading of Burkina’s general map, took place in Ouagadougou January 30th on behalf of the President of the National assembly... Continue Reading
