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“We have bought our forms, only for the University to say that there are no spaces,” one of the potential students of the University of Sierra Leone lamented to SALONE TIMES. Last week the University of Sierra Leone came out with a press statement, indicating that it has opened the sale of entrance forms for just one week- from the 26th January to 2nd February 2017. The press release stated that pupils who wanted to apply should rush to the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank and pay 350,000 Leones an equivalent of 50 United States Dollars to purchase forms for all departments in the University except the department of law. Students who had bought forms and applied for entrance into various departments in the University of Sierra Leone and now being told that there are no spaces in many of the departments such as engineering, mass communication, accounting etc. Some of the aggrieved students explained that they had bought the form and applied at University but that they were being t...

Lawyer Abubakarr S Turay who is also the Public Relation Officer of the Sierra Leone Bar Association has given back to his community in constituency 105 popularly called Central 2. Lawyer ABS Turay who is  famously known as Kabaka unveiled a reservoir cost millions of Leones which he constructed to alleviate the problems of water in the mountain cut community and its environs over the weekend. This is the community where the lawyer was born and bred and he knows that the community is seriously constrained with pipe borne water from the 90s to date. In his address, he stated that his mantra is to give back whatever little to those who deserve it, adding that he felt obliged to respond to the needs of the community. According to him, he sponsored the construction of the cement tank that will act as a water reservoir  for the Mountain Cut and Barham Community in Constituency 105 to solve the problems of water. “This will also help the people in the community, more so ...

By Mariama B. Bah Total Sierra Leone has introduced Madam Nkada Rose as the new Managing Director of the company.  This was made known to the public on Thursday 25 th January 2017 during a farewell cocktail for Soulaymane Troare who was the Managing Director of that company at the Radisson Blu hotel in Freetown. The cocktail also saw the launching of the Total Excellium Diesel Fuel, the latest product of Total. In her address to her audience, the new Total MD, Madam Nkada Rose extended her appreciation to all present to be a party of such a historic moment. Madam Rose thanked the outgoing M.D for his commitment during his tenure in office as he “Mr.  Troare” has demonstrated it in front of everyone. She said she felt very pleased to take over the new position as Managing Director of Total Sierra Leone which was well managed by the Mr. Troare. She added that she had the necessary qualification to manage the company, noting that she is confident. According to ...

By Ibrahim Joenal Sesay In line with their mandate, the National Tourists Board of Sierra Leone through the support of DFID and other donors will establish five Eco-Tourist Sites in the country. Yassin Kargbo, GM, National Tourists Board of Sierra Leone This was disclosed by General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of the National Tourist Board Sierra Leone, Yassin Kargbo yesterday at his Lumley Beach office. Mr. Kargbo stated that the EIF is the integrated frame work, it is a funding that they got from DFID and other donors they are going to use to establish 5 Eco-Tourist sites in the country. The fund which they received by the end of 2016 is about $2 million. “We received a very positive letter from DFID stating that they have re-instated the funding which is about $2 million.” Yassin Kargbo was speaking about their successes in 2016 to this medium. He said just after the 2015 ebola, they had difficulty but the confidence that was lost before has been regained a...

By Ibrahim Joenal Sesay  Hi folks, this is not TRACE’S intention to come back to this topic about the cemeteries but a statement made by no less a person than President Ernest Koroma, made TRACE to write this piece. TRACE had that the president called for the protection of the cemeteries? The question on the lips of many is, why now? It is with deep mixed feelings that TRACE is writing this piece, considering the level of information TRACE gave to the Freetown City Council as a local government and the central government as a whole about the massive encroachment that is going on in the cemeteries especially the Circular Road cemetery were corpses were uprooted just to mount radio station. TRACE was shocked when the news break about the 72 graves that were opened at Kissy Road, Circular Road cemeteries among others and nothing came out of it. The perpetrators deemed it fit to strike again, this time is Aberdeen Cemetery. Now the government wants to speak about protec...

Students of Providence International High School have expressed to Junior SALONE TIMES what they think about their school and how they are going to celebrate their school’s 10 th year anniversary. Kadish Nadia Kamara an Art student of the secondary school expressed that she is very excited and blessed to be a student of that great school and celebrating ten years of the school’s anniversary is worth celebrating. ‘’ I am so grateful and happy because ten years is not ten days and within this year our school has gone through a lot but to God be the glory, it has been successful,’she said. This year’s celebration will be one with a difference from all other celebrations, we will be seeing ex-students of the school interacting with us the present and outgoing students, sharing their successful and inspiring stories with us and our teachers, there will be a school band in the evening at the school campus for all to merry and we will embrace it with joy because as the saying goes ‘...