The News Review:

- Sierra Leone: VP Sam-Sumana Talks About JB thers
- Sierra Leone: NRA Boss Hits Jackpot in Europe
- Sierra Leone: G4S Goes International
- Sierra Leone: Kenema is Still SLPP
- Sierra Leone: ‘Polio is Common in U-5 Children’ Dr. Samba
- Sierra Leone: Kallon Yet to Decide Future

Sierra Leone: VP Sam-Sumana Talks About JB thers
AllAfrica.com
Anoka High School graduates felt honoured that the Vice President of Sierra Leone Alhaji Sam-Sumana was at their school to offer them words of wisdom; words that they hope to put to practice in making a difference in the lives of others. With their parents friends and well-wishers in attendance it was clear they will forever cherish the moment. But that was not the only group he met with; he visited his Alma mater the Metropolitan State University and also met with the Sierra Leonean community. This was the same community that he once belonged to. That he could come back and meet with long time friends and acquaintances were a reminder that even though he no longer sees and talks with them regularly he has not forgotten about them.

Sierra Leone: NRA Boss Hits Jackpot in Europe
AllAfrica.com
GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );Mr. Sesay is heading home with broad smiles after grabbing four scholarships for his Customs workers to pursue Masters Degree programmes in Germany. Furthermore the smooth-talking NRA boss has succeeded in ensuring that for the first time Sierra Leone now has a seat on the six-member Audit Committee of the World Customs rganization (WC) representing about 30 countries from West and Central Africa. In addition Sesay has also succeeded in getting a seat for Sierra Leone in the Human Resource Working Group which is tasked with the responsibility of designing appropriate programmes to build capacity and motivate staff in Customs administration in the West and Central Africa regions. After his WC meeting in Brussels Sesay took time off his busy schedule to grant a brief interview in the office of the Information Attache at the Sierra Leone Embassy in Brussels Chernor juku Sesay and threw light on his trip to Europe and the performance of NRA towards the improvement of the national economy. Get a taste of what he said:Information Attaché (IA): You’ve just come to the end of your European trip how would you describe it?Allieu Sesay: It has been very very successful. For me it is the most successful trip of all the trips I’ve taken personally as well as to the country.

Sierra Leone: G4S Goes International
AllAfrica.com
The process was in line with the global objective of having a single identity so that the company would have a unique identity that is recognized worldwide. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );G4S’s country operations manager Antony Rothwell said their security guards will now have a unique uniform which was part of the institution’s branding process. He said other West Africa countries including Ghana have already begun the process but because of some reasons Sierra Leone was only embarking on the process now. Rothwell said there were lots of negative publications with regard the development but that security guards should have nothing to fear as the institution remains the same.

Sierra Leone: Kenema is Still SLPP
AllAfrica.com
Though the ruling All People’s Congress APC are making frantic efforts to gain some political grounds by trying to win over certain political heavyweights in the area yet past Friday’s event clearly demonstrated that Kenema indeed belongs to the SLPP. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );The entire township was painted green last Friday when the Kamboi Eagles football team locked horns with premier league champions East-End Lions at the Kenema town field. The reason behind politicizing the match was yet unknown but some residents intimated Concord Times that it all started when Lions upon arrival in Kenema visited the regional office of the APC which according to them was a blatant show of political allegiance to the APC. Lahai Fatoma a strong SLPP member said they had not taken the matter seriously until when they saw some business women and APC party affiliates done in their party colours to patronize with the visiting team that they realized what was supposed to be a social event had degenerated into a party affair.

Sierra Leone: ‘Polio is Common in U-5 Children’ Dr. Samba
AllAfrica.com
Thomas Samba who was speaking during a press briefing on the just concluded polio vaccination campaign for 2009 in Freetown said Sierra Leone has been Polio free since 2001 while other African countries are still grappling with an escalating polio epidemic. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );”It is therefore of paramount importance that we step up our vigilance and our vaccination programs in order to maintain a polio free society. This will be a house-to-house vaccination so that at the end of the day every under-five child will be vaccinated” Dr. He noted that they are working collaboratively with UNICEF and WH in carrying out the campaign.
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Sierra Leone: Kallon Yet to Decide Future
AllAfrica.com
The former Inter Milan striker who is still holidaying in Freetown decided to break his silence after an online media reported earlier last month that he would be heading for Vietnam. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );”Me heading to Vietnam for trials?” he asked adding that the report was untrue. “I have never had contacts with any club over there; it is a surprise to me. I am yet to decide where I would be playing next season.