Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 January 2021:
A Sierra Leonean, Ambassador Yvette Stevens (M.Sc., DIC., FSLIE, MIET) has won the 2021 Imperial College Distinguished Alumni Award
The prestigious Imperial College London is a one-of-a-kind institution in the UK, focusing solely on science, engineering, medicine and business. It has been consistently rated in the top-five UK universities and in the top-ten universities worldwide.
The Imperial College Alumni Awards started in 2020, and honours alumni in three categories, namely the Distinguished Alumni Award, the Emerging Alumni Leader Award and the Alumni Entrepreneur Award.
The Distinguished Alumni Award recognises and celebrates outstanding alumni who have demonstrated sustained excellence in their personal and professional achievements, are leaders in their field or have made a substantial impact on society. Ambassador Stevens was the sole winner of the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2021.
Carleton Welcoming Women Researchers in QES Advanced Scholars West Africa Program
Carleton University is one of 11 Canadian universities to receive funding from the new Queen Elizabeth Scholars (QES) Advanced Scholars West Africa program to work together to find solutions to the world’s increasingly complex challenges.
The project is led by Nduka Otiono, a distinguished scholar in Carleton’s Institute of African Studies in collaboration with various African partners. It’s called
Wurin ta na yin rubutu, meaning
her own room to write.
External project partners include IMPACT-Partnership Africa, CODE, Africa-Canada Chamber of Commerce and Aisha Ibrahim, assistant deputy vice-chancellor of Fourah Bay College at the University of Sierra Leone.
Congratulations to Teddy and wife
12 December 2020 at 03:17 |
PV Staff
On Friday December 10, Teddy Foday-Musa, a lecturer at department of Peace Studies at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone quietly got married at the Registry in Freetown.
It was indeed a quiet ceremony as the bride and groom were surrounded by friends and family who wished them well.
Before joining the staff of FBC after graduate studies in the Netherlands, Teddy was a journalist and community and human rights activist. More Salone News
Oswald Hanciles (The Guru): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 December 2020:
The bye-election in the hotly contested Constituency 110 in the Freetown Peninsula, awakens in me a sense of déjà vu. In the 1967 parliamentary election, and in the fiercely contested elections of the 1970s, there would be not only enthusiastic campaigning by APC and SLPP partisans, but spasmodic violence all over the country, until the General Elections of 1977, when the APC government led by the wily, pugnacious, and charismatic APC leader, Siaka Stevens, waged a full-scale war on the SLPP opposition (disguised as competitive elections).
Stevens then coerced the SLPP, forced its leaders to capitulate and absorbed into the APC, which led to a de jure One Party State, after the APC was declared winner of the 1977 election by a landslide.