Kurubonla town, or call it what you like, is the chiefdom headquarter of Neya Chiefdom located in the south/east of Koinadugu District. It is one of the Sierra Leone’s largest chiefdoms giving its amalgamation in about 1952 by the British colonialists. It is an amalgamation of four original chiefdoms, Kulor, Saradu, Neya and Neidu, and these are now referred to as Sections, headed by Section Chiefs hailing from their original chieftain houses in those Sections. In the 1970s, the then All People’s Congress (APC) government under Siaka Probyn Stevens split up Neya Section into two, Neya I, with headquarter being Kurobonla and Neya II with headquarter being Porpon. Neya II was carved to create room for its then Youth Leader in that area, the late Gbondo Madusu Lahai II, who was later to become Paramount Chief of the Chiefdom on two separate occasions. He died in office in 2011.
Written by John Baimba Sesay-Information Attaché, China
Tuesday, 14 May 2013 11:50
Former Secretary-General of the governing All Peoples Congress, (APC) who was also recently appointed Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to China, Victor Bockarie Foh has encouraged the new Secretary-General of the party, Ambassador Osman Foday Yansaneh, “not to forget the down trodden as the APC is sustained by the poor.” He spoke on Thursday, 9th May 2013 at the APC Secretariat, whilst handing over to the newly elected Secretary-General of the party.
MIATTA CONFERENCE CENTRE, Brookfields, Freetown, May 8, 2013/ -- His Excellency, President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has said that the provision of an enabling environment to promote human security and poverty reduction at national and local levels is a critical focus area of his government. He made this statement on the occasion of the official launch of the National Disaster Response Trust Fund at the Miatta Conference Centre, Brookfields, Freetown, on Wednesday, May 08, 2013.
National Stadium, Brookfields, Freetown, May 2nd, 2013/- The Chairman and Leader of the All People’s Congress (APC), His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has issued a stern and uncompromising warning to those who are focusing their energies on forming cliques within the APC for the next presidential elections rather than doing the job for which the government had been mandated by the electorate at last year’s November polls. “They will not be tolerated in my government; I will consider them irrelevant to the work of my government and cast them out”, he warned. Please follow link for full speech: http://www.statehouse.gov.sl/index.php/component/content/article/658-address-by-his-excellency-the-president-dr-ernest-bai-koroma-chairman-and-leader-of-the-apc-at-the-national-delegates-conference
Sierra Leone’s civil war left plethora of challenges. At the diplomatic front, there was the Yenga dispute between Sierra Leone and Guinea. Yenga is in the eastern part of Sierra Leone, precisely in Kailahun. When you think of Yenga you have a reflection of Sierra Leone decade long civil carnage. And devoid of any political connotation, President Kabba (h) actually had the opportunity to have solved this issue. This is a viewed once shared by Sierra Leone’s recent past media body President, Umaru Fofana. He wrote in 2009, that President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was “presented the best opportunity to have resolved the Yenga issue not least because he is so fluent in Susu, the ethnic group of the then Guinean president Lansana Conteh, that the two would have found it more fraternal. (http://awoko.org/2009/06/12/yenga-on-my-mind/).
Innovation Prize for Africa Announces 2013 Finalists
Experts from across Africa develop market-oriented solutions to address sanitation, malaria, energy and other challenges while driving economic growth on the continent
CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, April 25, 2013/ -- Ten African innovators have developed practical solutions to some of the continent’s most intractable problems.
UNICEF Reiterates - Allow All Pregnant Girls to Take Exams
Freetown 3 May2013 –UNICEF calls on everyone, parents, exam officials and head teachers in Sierra Leone to ensure pregnant girls are allowed and supported to take their exams. “It has come to our attention that last year a number of girls were either not entered for the exams or turned away from the exam hall by invigilators because they were pregnant”, said UNICEF Country Representative Roeland Monasch. “UNICEF would like to point out that this practice is highly discriminative.
The Freetown Court No.3 on May 6, 2013, charged Kasho Cole and Ibrahim Samura, Managing Editor and editor respectively of privately-owned Prime Newspaper, on eight counts of offences including criminal defamation for allegedly publishing an article about Lawyer Adekule King, an employee of the National Petroleum Directorate.
Hardly a day goes by without a news story on some violation of women’s rights. In recent months, appalling incidents of violence against women and girls, from Delhi to Johannesburg to Cleveland, have sparked public outrage and demands to tackle these horrific abuses.
The Monitoring and Compliance Unit of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd May 2013 presented monitoring reports to stakeholders at the SLTU Hall in Makeni. The monitoring reports were on the Ministries of Local Government (Local Councils), Health and Sanitation, Education and Agriculture.
Kurubonla town, or call it what you like, is the chiefdom headquarter of Neya Chiefdom located in the south/east of Koinadugu District. It is one of the Sierra Leone’s largest chiefdoms giving its amalgamation in about 1952 by the British colonialists. It is an amalgamation of four original chiefdoms, Kulor, Saradu, Neya and Neidu, and these are now referred to as Sections, headed by Section Chiefs hailing from their original chieftain houses in those Sections. In the 1970s, the then All People’s Congress (APC) government under Siaka Probyn Stevens split up Neya Section into two, Neya I, with headquarter being Kurobonla and Neya II with headquarter being Porpon. Neya II was carved to create room for its then Youth Leader in that area, the late Gbondo Madusu Lahai II, who was later to become Paramount Chief of the Chiefdom on two separate occasions. He died in office in 2011.
Sierra Leoneans in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week held a one-day meeting of all their nationals in the commercial city of Dubai .At the end of the meeting, they officially formed what they called ‘The Sierra Leone Nationals' Association in the Emirates," (SLNAE) with Ibrahim Bah as their Acting Chairman
