The News Review:

- 2 Bay Area women train midwives in Sierra Leone
- International Insurance Company Sierra Leone Post Le 2.2 Billion …
- OGBONI Leader Must Pack and Leave Sierra Leone Now!
- President Koroma Explains Reasons For Commission of Inquiry in …
- Privatization Commission in Sierra Leone Takes Up Wrongful …
- Community-based schools provide hope to the children of Sierra Leone

2 Bay Area women train midwives in Sierra Leone
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA 
tmpl –>Retirement is anything but slow for two Episcopal deacons from San Francisco. Each year, the Revs. Christie McManus, 60, and Patricia Ross, 57, journey to Sierra Leone to help deliver babies in remote villages with some of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. tmpl –> Images.

International Insurance Company Sierra Leone Post Le 2.2 Billion …
Standard Times Press, Sierra Leone 
Our knack in providing personalized services to our clients by identifying their insurance needs and packaging policies that are tailored to meet such needs is widely acclaimed. IIC is noted for efficiency, dynamism and reliability in our service delivery, powered by our superb Information Technology platform and the skills of our highly trained and motivated staff that are endowed with integrity, discipline and the ethics of the insurance profession. Our mission in the Sierra Leone Insurance industry is clearly underscored by our Mission Statement which is “To establish the confidence of our customers in the provision of Insurance services with a fulfilled work-force and satisfied investors, yet making positive impact in our environment”. This clear corporate assertion informed the signature tone of the Company: IIC- the Insurers you can Trust!!

The enviable levels of trust with which we do business with our clients have ensured we remain an Insurance company of choice in Sierra Leone. This has enabled us maintain an impressive corporate performance in the last 5 years of our commencing operation. In the last three years, IIC has maintained a strong 4th position in the market share of the growing Sierra Leone’s Insurance Industry, while our rating as one of the most reliable Insurance companies operating in this country, has continued to increase astronomically. Our growth rate is also phenomenal, moving from a Gross Premium Revenue of Le80 million in 2003 when we started operation, to post an awesome Gross Premium Revenue of Le 2.

OGBONI Leader Must Pack and Leave Sierra Leone Now!
Standard Times Press, Sierra Leone 
Valentine, leader of the Ogboni cult group who is addressing himself as the Royal Highness was present at the Nigeria High Commission yesterday at a meeting when his brothers and sisters demanded that he should leave the shores of this country immediately. At the meeting yesterday, Nigerians who are conversant with diabolical and inhuman practices of the Ogboni cult in their country told him that he has breached their peace, stability and in Sierra Leone; therefore he must leave the country. According to Nigerian nationals resident in Sierra Leone, the group; they say is a very terrible one and deals in human sacrifices. They explained that they have been driven away from numerous countries, citing The Gambia, Guinea, Senegal and other countries in the region where the acts of human sacrifices were exposed and asked to leave. In Nigeria, they explained that parents have lost their children, marriages destroyed. Children offer their parents for rituals to get rich and parents do the same to their children. “Some of the Nigerian movies you see are real, and this is the work of cultism established in our country by the Ogboni” They added.

President Koroma Explains Reasons For Commission of Inquiry in …
Standard Times Press, Sierra Leone 
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On the Anti-Corruption Commission, the President said he knew that the Act, in its old form, was not good enough, that was why as Opposition Leader he clamoured for its review and campaigned on that ticket. Now, as President, he has ensured that the commission has achieved greater independence with prosecutorial powers to charge people to court without going through the Attorney General and increasing the number of offences from nine to twenty seven. He urged the people to see the ACC not as an enemy but as an integral part in the battle to regain Sierra Leone’s lost image and even for higher glory. The President repeated his famous declaration of “no sacred cows” and no hiding place for those who misuse or misappropriate public funds. He said he was all the more happy to make the declaration in Makeni for his relatives to set an example, if not they would be used as an example to show that no one would be protected. ” We can either fight this fight or not try at all. We have to discipline ourselves.

Privatization Commission in Sierra Leone Takes Up Wrongful …
Standard Times Press, Sierra Leone 
Abu Bangura, which supervises Parastatals including the National Power Authority, has reportedly taken up the case of wrongful dismissal of the Deputy General Manager, Mr. Patrick Tarawallie. The action of the Commissioner of the National Commission for Privatization did not come as a surprise to the public, instead; it is viewed as a belated one which is long overdue; considering the powers invested in the commission to correct, regularize anomalies and privatize Parastatals that are not productive or economically viable to the state. Following a letter from the commission sent to the Chairperson of the Board, Mrs.

Community-based schools provide hope to the children of Sierra Leone
ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland 
" She smiles as she talks about her dreams and describes her favourite subjects: English and Science. Isatu lives with her father and three siblings in Robonko village about ten miles outside of, Makeni, the headquarter town in northern Sierra Leone. Isatu is twelve years old and is just about to commence her third year at Rogbonko Community Primary School (usually at 12 years children are preparing for either their final year in primary or first year in secondary). Until 2005 there was no school within Isatu’s community and parents were worried about sending their children, especially girls, to walk long distances to the nearest school (approximately 12 miles away).
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