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17 passengers and 5 crew members onboard a wooden boat named Kadija which was traveling from Tombo to Plantain Island were on September 1^st 2010 successfully rescued by the Officer Commanding Forward Operation Base (FOB) Tombo, Sub Lieutenant Philip Tairu.

President Ernest Bai Koroma on Friday 3^rd September, 2010 commissioned thirty nine cadet officers during a passing out ceremony at the Benguema Training Center on the outskirts of Waterloo.

Government’s setting up of the National Youth Commission is without any iota of doubt, a very good initiative that will go a very long way to drastically cut down on the chronic youth unemployment, improve on their welfare through the necessary skills’ training. So far, the Board of Directors has been put in place with a young and dynamic man, Umar Farouk Sesay. Anytime from now those forming the nucleus of the management of the NYC will be announced to pave the way for the youth commission to start work.

The government of Sierra Leone will benefit a colossal sum of $355 million for the next seventeen (17) years, courtesy of a new mining agreement signed between Koidu Holdings Company and the Sierra Leone government, through the Minister of Mines, Hon Alpha Kanu.

In order to keep a clean and healthy environment in hospital areas, Hon Babatunde Lewally representing Constituency 104 together with two youth groups on Saturday 4^th September 2010 conducted a general cleaning exercise at Princess Christiana Maternity Hospital (PCMH) and its environs.

The Government of Sierra Leone has been taking conscious steps towards the improving and reforming its financial management practices. Various diagnostic studies and assessments have been conducted to gauge the performance of these reforms, and to offer remedial measures aimed at improving the government’s financial management practices’ over-all.