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By Ibrahim Joenal Sesay The University of Sierra Leone has awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Civil Laws (honoris Causa) to His Excellency Zhao Yanbo Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the Republic of Sierra Leone, at the Mary Kingsley Auditorium Fourah Bah College Mount Aureol on Friday 30 th September 2016. University Register, Sorie N. Dumbuya in his welcome remarks used the opportunity to inform his audience that the authority for the conferment of any degree or similar award in the University of Sierra Leone is vested in the Head of State in his capacity as Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone as provided in section 13 A of the universities Act of 2005. “However, section 13 B of this Act also provides for this authority to be delegated to any person that holds the position of Vice-Chancellor and Principal, whether in a substantive or an acting capacity.”   The Acting Vice-Chancellor and Principle Professor Ekundayo J.D. Thompson disclo...

A patriotic Sierra Leonean, Francis Beckley is calling on all Sierra Leoneans with cars to help get children to school and home early. Francis Beckley   who is the Chief Campaigner of Help Get That Child to School and Home Early, told SALONE TIMES that his campaign started last academic year when he saw the challenges some school children were faced with in getting to school and home early in the country. He said he began to send WhatsApp messages to different people and groups as a start. Beckley further informed this media house that his main focus of running this particular company is to help improve the educational system in Sierra Leone as education is day by day depreciating. He said that helping get a child to school and coming home early will make a great impact. He said a child who stays all the way at Goodrich village or beyond and is attending the Government Model Secondary School at Circular Road gets to school by 10 am and this causes the child to miss th...