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The Chairman of Elders Council, Western Region of the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), John Boso-Kuyateh has resigned his position after thorough consultations with family members and friends.

The Chairman of Elders Council, Western Region of the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), John Boso-Kuyateh has resigned his position after thorough consultations with family members and friends.

“NEC will not stop people from registering twice or thrice, but the new law provides two years jail term for those who will be found culpable,” the Information and Communication Chief Albert Massaquoi said.

The Nutritional Programs Department at the Ministry of Health and Sanitation together with other relevant stakeholders has concluded a one day national fortification alliance meeting as Sierra Leone forges ahead in establishing standardization and mandatory food fortification for all local produces and also cheap goods imported into the country.

ENCISS have on Wednesday concluded a workshop on electoral education which also promotes dialogue and democratic values at the British Council hall, Tower Hill.

The Sierra Leone Police (SLP) has intervened to settle a dispute between voters and the officials of the National Electoral Commission (NEC) after the former lashed at the former’s new biometric system of registration.

Speaker of Parliament Hon. Justice Abel Stronge, has promised to review the latest electoral legislative proposal which is submitted by the National Electoral Commission (NEC).

The visiting new Chairperson of the Peace- Building Commission Special Configuration on Sierra Leone, Ambassador Guillermo Rishcynski, has predicted a positive economic future for Sierra Leone and the doubling of the country’s Gross Domestic Products (GDP) after 2012.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) will soon send a delegation to Sierra Leone to undertake investigations into the current political climate in the country. It has also been revealed that the ICC team will be deployed to monitor the upcoming 2012 polls.

National Election Watch (NEW) and Independent Radio Network (IRIN) have deployed a total of 738 observers across the country to observe and monitor the first biometric voter registration process in Sierra Leone. NEW and IRIN disclosed that two observers will be deployed at each registration center nationwide.

Inspector General of Police, Francis Munu has assured all of total security before, during and after the upcoming national polls. This assurance was made after the recent violence at the by-elections in Ward 369, Constituency 104 in the Fourah Bay Community. Munu told pressmen that Western Area District has been divided into two regions with different commanders.

Police officers attached to Tombo Police Station has recently brushed three marijuana farms at a place called Banga  Ground, in Tombo. The suspects have also been arrested and charged to court.

President Ernest Bai Koroma has assured a large crowd of his All Peoples Congress Party (APC) supporters that the people’s representations will be the main strategy of APC to select political heads in the party for the November 17^th 2012 national polls.

Some residents and eligible voters in Constituency 109, West of Freetown have  publicly endorsed the candidacy of popular broadcaster, musician and preacher M.B Atilla to run for parliamentary seat in the upcoming November 17^th 2012 Parliamentary election.

The Media which includes TV, radio, print and the internet plays an important role in people’s lives. The mass media have an unrivalled potential to inform and educate the general public about conflict prevention. Unfortunately, a tiny fraction of this potential has been tapped.

A committee of youth groups will soon present a national achievement award for the Chief of Staff at State House for being the best office created by President Ernest Koroma when he assumed power in 2007.

Attention will focus on the Customs and Exercise Department of the National Revenue Authority (NRA) as they join other Customs Administrations around the world to celebrate International Customs Day on Thursday, January 26. The theme for this year’s celebrations is ‘Borders divide, Customs Connect.’

The Sierra Leone government’s budget has been boosted with a 10.8 million Euro equivalent to Le 64 billion Leones from the 10^th European Development fund for the consolidation of a stable macro economic framework whilst supporting the implementation of the agenda for change program.

Investigations conducted by this press have unraveled dubious economic and financial syndicate at Queen Elizabeth II Quay who are hell bent on removing containers free from the quay while bypassing government’s ASYCUDA system.

At the launching of their anti-violence campaign for 2012 elections, chairman of Main Bowl, Belgium Sellers, Oseh Davies, urged the youths and business people around the Belgium market to practice political tolerance and use their initiatives and talents to develop Sierra Leone.