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  • “Sierra Leone is owned by all of us” — President Koroma tells Fullah Community

    STATE HOUSE, Freetown, 22nd May, 2013/-- His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has said that Sierra Leone belongs every citizen. He made this statement during a courtesy call on him by a cross section of the Fullah community in the country. The courtesy call came in the wake of the recent conferment of the award of the Order of the Rokel on Alhaji Borbor Bah, by His Excellency the President of the ...

  • At Lumley Beach Police Post … Police kills

    Police personnel attached to the Lumley Division yesterday shot dead one man at Lumley Beach west end of Freetown by the Golf Club Police post According to an eye witness account a man believed to be in his 40′s only known as Donald was seen around the Lumley Beach during the morning hours of yesterday with a weapon. He has worked in the United States Criminal Investigation Department ...

  • Ten-minute rain floods Eastern Police

    The Eastern Police intersection was completely flooded in the evening of Tuesday, after a light rain that lasted for just 10 minutes. The flooding adversely constrained human and vehicular movements, forcing pedestrians to remove their shoes and sneakers, to wade through the smelly flowing water that was carrying all sorts of rubbish. For many pedestrians caught off-guard by the flooded ...

  • Departing Sierra Leone envoy assesses China’s relationship with his country

    Abubakarr Multi-Kamara’s tenure as Sierra Leone’s ambassador to China has been fleeting – less than a year – but in that time his appreciation for the countries’ warm ties have grown. ';The close Sino-Sierra Leone relationship is based on mutual respect and similar experiences in history,'; says Multi-Kamara, who before taking up the Beijing post in April ...

  • Art Academy to be constructed

    Freetong Players International yesterday launched their first newspaper ‘DI YELIBA’ Newspaper as part of their 28th year celebrations at Old School Hill Station. The launching was also part of a conference on Art, Culture, Peace, and Development. During the ceremony it was also revealed that an art academy was to be constructed at No.2. Speaking during the conference, the ...

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Two-Lane Blacktop [DVD]

Two-Lane Blacktop [DVD]

There were a lot of similar films that followed immediately in the wake of the unexpected counterculture hit Easy Rider (1969), but none were quite like Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop. It explores many of the same themes that had exploded the American movie ind ... ...

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  • Japan signs $13.97million power supply Grant for Freetown

    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Government of Sierra Leone and the Government of Japanyesterday signed the Exchange of Note and Grant Agreement of $13,970,000 towards the project for the urgent improvement of power distribution system in Freetown. TheExchange of notewas signed by the Japanese Ambassador to Sierra Leone Mr. Naoto Nikai on behalf of the ...

  • Complete version of Krio Bible out

    A full version of the first Krio Bible both the old and new testament, is out and will be launched on Tuesday 28th May at the Presidential Lounge of the National Stadium. A member of the Bible Society In Sierra Leone, Raymond Jarrett told Awoko that the Bible translated and edited by professional Sierra Leoneans was compiled in Nairobi by the Bible Society in Sierra Leone and that the ...

  • Old Princewaleans holds AGM today

    The Old Boys of the Prince of Wales (POW ) secondary school in Freetown will be holding their Annual General Meeting (AGM) today(Thursday 23 May) at the Cathedral House, Gloucester Street in Freetown at 5pm. Speaking to Awoko, Chairman of the Publicity Committee on the Rehabilitation of the School, Dauda Musa Bangura revealed that this year’s AGM is going to focus on how the old Boys can ...

  • Local Council best for effective governance-facilitator

    The Facilitator of Democracy Sierra Leone, Alhaji Mohamed Warisay says that local council is the best way of running effective governance though it is expensive in maintaining the councillors. He made this statement during a one-day training of elected Councillors and Ward Committee Members in Constituencies 106, 107 and 109 in the Central and Western part of Freetown on their role and the ...

  • No TB drugs at Kenema hospital

    A nurse in charge of the Tuberculosis (TB) ward at the government hospital along Combema road in Kenema city Agnes Fatorma disclosed to Awoko that more patients are dying at the hospital because of lack of drugs. She says the TB ward at the Government hospital had ran out of drug supply since March 2013 and within this short period, the ward has experienced more deaths than before, when drugs ...

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