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Director of Children Affairs at the Ministry of Social Welfare, Madam Buya Kamara has described her Minister, Sylvia Blyden as “crooked and corrupt” She made this statement while explaining to the Parliamentary Committee on Social Service about the missing 707 Million Leones last Wednesday 1 st February 2017. She revealed that UNICEF has stopped funding the ministry because they failed to account for the Le 707M which was given to the ministry for children’s activities in 2016. “The Ministry is losing fund because of the attitude of the present minister,” Director Buya Kamara maintained. The permanent Secretary in the Ministry Osman Kanu appealed to the committee that the information which the chairman requested will be presented to the Committee in the next adjourned date. Kanu told the committee that the ministry is faced with a lot of challenges in terms of finance as they have not been receiving funds for fuel for the past one year. Permanent Secretary Kanu pointe...

The no-nonsense Auditor General of Sierra Leone, Lara Taylor Pearce has exposed how the Sierra Leone’s Revenue Generation Body, National Revenue Authority or NRA is conniving with airline operators in the country to swindle the state of billions of Leones The auditor report revealed how NRA self-righteously decided to split payment made to them in bulk by the airline operators. “Kenya Airways made a bulk payment of Le 517,762,786 without specifying how the payments should be apportioned. However, the payment was split equally over a nine-month period by NRA officers on the assumption that Le 57,529,198 was the tax paid for each month,” the report states. This, according to the report cannot be explained by NRA and  how it determined the splitting particularly when comparing  the monthly payment arising from the splitting to other monthly payments (October Le245,204,978 and November Le 218,925,325). “We found that the splitting done by the NRA was unreasonable,” the a...

Hero Of Our Time is please to feature another prominent personality in Sierra Leone, he is no other person but Dr. Santigie Sesay the current Director of Reproductive and Child Health in the Ministry of Health and Sanitation. Dr. Santigie Sesay was born on the 8 th of April, 1963, at the Western Area Rural District of Freetown called Devil Hole where his parents settled decades ago from Bombali District, North of Sierra Leone. Dr. Sesay attended the Rokel Primary School at the Rokel Community from class one to four. He also attended the Hastings Primary School from class five to six, where he graduated with a National Primary School Examination Certificate (NPSE). Dr. Sesay after his NPSE, went to the Peninsular Secondary School where he sat to the GCE O level. After his GCE O level, Dr. Sesay entered the National School of Nursing where he was trained as a State Registrar Nurse. He worked briefly as a State Registrar Nurse and left the soil of Sierra Leone to the former...

Students that successful trained by Art of Gold Byriri have expressed their opinion about makeup course as one that is not meant for drop out but for people that are intellectually capable. This is what they told SALONE TIMES Fashion and Beauty page. Madam Minyata Grey Wood who is working with one of the government Ministries as one of the heads of department and she said she has always being impressed by good makeup as one of the things that motivated her. She said that she wanted to learn the art of doing a professional makeup but that normally she believes that learning to do make-ups are for dropped outs. She explained that she was motivated by two things, firstly to learn the art of beauty and how to enhance it as a lady and secondly to learn the skill that she can always use as a back up to her formal traditional working life. Juliet Kaikai, a final year law student and also a student at the art of gold institution said she has always loved makeup. “When I saw the ...

Barrack Obama, former United State President in his ‘Audacity of Hope Book’ described politics as a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds a nation together is greater than what drives that nation apart. He furthered that if people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then “we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done.” After having lunch together at  Crown Bakery in Freetown on 6 th   February 2017, the former UNIDO boss and Intending Flag Bearer Aspirant of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella (KKY), referencing Obama’s book referred to the Leader of the Alliance Democratic Party (ADP) Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray as the ‘Audacity of Hope’ of Sierra Leone. The former UNIDO Boss further stated that it is very important to change the narrative of politics in the country to protect the next generation and that Kamarainba as a young political ...