“We need change, and we need it urgently”… Yumkella tells EU as he lauds their efforts on energy access

BRUSSELS, February 8, 2012 – The European Parliament has today welcomed senior representatives from the United Nations, the European Union, the European Parliament, as well as civil society and the private sector for the European launch of the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All.  (Photo: {l-r} UN Energy Chair Kandeh Yumkella and EU Commissioner [...]

Computer jackpot for Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone’s Deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Tamba Mansa Ngegba, has expressed interest on behalf of his country for a computer charity organisation to work in Sierra Leone.  He visited Computers 4 Africa, a charity social enterprise that has provided over 40,000 computers to sixteen different countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with the aim of [...]

Reelecting a people’s President

I must start off by registering my appreciation to those hundreds of thousands of Sierra Leoneans who have seen the need to come out in their numbers and register for the pending November 17th elections. I have often and again argued that one of several ways through which we could be part and parcel of [...]

Combating HIV infections among African women

Schoolgirl Nomasonto Masango giggles as she lists the things she and her friends want boyfriends to buy them. “If you have an older boyfriend, he can buy you things and it is nice to show your friends that you have things,” says Nomasonto. The most prized items are cell phones, jewelry and fashionable clothes. Nomasonto [...]

Invitations for Bids: Cleaning Services

NATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY AND INSURANCE TRUST (NASSIT) Date of Issue: 7TH FEBRUARY   2012 PROCUREMENT NUMBER: NASSIT/ADMIN/SS/NCB/012/004 1. The Trust maintains headquarters building at 32 Walpole Street, Freetown, West regional office at Old Parcel Post Building at Government Wharf in Freetown, three offices in Makeni, Bo, and Kenema and a sub office at Kono. The Trust [...]