Spreading Knowledge to Stop Ebola

THE PAST EVENTS. JUNE 16TH, THE DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD. June 16th is commemorated as the African childs day, commemorating the death and struggle of the African children in the South African apathy era. The struggle for freedom and equal opportunities amongst all brought this history day in not only South Africa but the whole of Africa. It's sometimes commemorated in different ways in some part of Africa, but mostly children wear the typical African attire to prove Africanism. Some take the role of some authorities in a society. #mamaAfrica #endofebola #sweetsalone #WeOwnTv by. Fatmata Mansaray

THE PAST EVENTS. THE END OF RAMADAN HERE IN SIERRA LEONE ON WEDNESDAY 6TH JULY 2016.

PROTEST AT ISLAMIC COLLEGE. A protest resulting to riot held at the Institute of Islamic Studies in the interest of changing the present director of the college Maisami Zaa Dai. According to the students; the director is not seeking their interest or executing his responsibilities as his job demands him to do. They alleged that the director has changed the entire setup of the college administration which has a grave negative effects on the students as well as the lecturers. The following are the factors of their grievance which they outline against the director: Poor or no medical facilities, No advance college materials, No more two weeks allowance, the campus is very deplorable, the stop centre is now used as a store, and the quality of food is very substandard. The authorities on ground promised to talk with the director in order to get on an easy resolution of the problems. Apparently most of the lecturers were also annoyed with the attitude of the director but could not say or make any comments in order not to jeopardize their employments. Because those who attempted to do so were dismissed by the director- Maisami Zaa-Dai with immediate alacrity. Mean while the authorities refused to talk to the press, so we could not get on their own side of the story. The situation is as it is at the moment. #breakingnews #Islamicprotest #WeOwnTv #sweetsalone by. Abdulai K Koroma

BME TRANSFER EXERCISE IN PROGRESS The relocation of BME office from Juba hill to Aberdeen road is in progress. Workers are tired with the exercise which started since morning. This could probably be as a result of the Ramadan as they are fasting. The packing and transfer exercise has left many rooms empty and many materials set out to be sold to willing customers. Several negotiations have been made to keep the office running as usual, but because of the economic development in the country at the moment it can't be resolved. #businessreport #weowntv #sweetsalone by. Fatmata Mansaray

BUSINESS IS GOING BAD FOR B.M.E Beyond Mining Explosive company in Sierra Leone is doing poorly in business because their services are less needed by the miners. Most of these mining companies now don't do explosion at their site and major BME materials and services they have them, which makes it difficult for BME to do well in the market. The few companies that need them cannot pay handsomely at the same time contracts are not coming in frequently for BME. The management now decided to grossly scale down in all aspect, thereby moving from a $55,000 office to a $20,000 office per year. At the same time scale down the number of employees; no more security guards, no cleaner and no staff when there is no contract. Finally this week end BME shall be transferring to the $20,000 office space at Aberdeen. #businessreport #breakingnews #WeOwnTv #sweetsalone #endofebola by: Abdulai K Koroma

ONE OF THE BEAUTIES OF SIERRA LEONE Agriculture is not only for food security and sufficiency but it also improved on the beauty of a nation from the point of view of tourism. In Sierra Leone there are several places that shows the beauty through agriculture. On beaches like Lakka, Hamilton, Tokke, Bai Bureh, Lumley and Aberdeen has mangrove trees and coconut trees which add to the beauty of the beach for touristic purposes. Over the years many Sierra Leoneans now pay more attention to agriculture that than the mining of minerals. #weowntv #sweetsalone #mamaAfrica #agricbeauty by. Fatmata Mansaray

THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CITY HALL IS IN STAND STILL. The construction of the Freetown city hall is in stand still for reasons best known to either the government or the contractors. Many civil society organizations have asked questions but no answers were heard. Presently there is no city hall in Freetown and for over forty years there had been no parking space for government officials nor for private people. According to sources, the holding on to the construction of the city hall was as a result of the deadly Ebola outbreak in the country. So why not continue with the construction after the country declared free of Ebola? MORE TO COME SHORTLY! #endofebola #thelandofdiamond #weowntv by: Abdulai K Koroma

A SELF EMPLOYED TAILOR IN FREETOWN Komba Kellie is a self employed tailor in Freetown who tailored for many people at home and abroad in different fashions. Komba has several young people around him who wish to learn the trade. Presently he is advocating for help to expand his tailoring shop to a fashion industry; he said he has many initiatives but without support he cannot achieved them. Komba could be reach at Wilkinson road FREETOWN. #needshelp #sweetsalone #endofebola by: Fatmata Mansaray

ABDULAI'S STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. Abdulai K Koroma is a Sierra Leonean born in the Easter Provence a place call Kono district - Koidu town. There where he started his early education with the desire of becoming a journalist. With this desire Abdulai listened to radio, playfully conducted interviews and sets up a radio station at village level that transmitted about five kilometres off. Ironically this idea was not welcome by the authorities equally Abdulai's parents thought that would let him drop out of school. In 2012, Abdulai left for the city - Freetown, where initially he knows nobody. He slept in abandoned vehicles on the street with only one meal a day. Things went bad on a daily basis which finally let him know the plight of a man. Abdulai applied in various radio stations as a voluntary reporter but to no avail. A friend told him to join a security agency in order to manage his life. At first he look at the security job as a risky and less regarded job that a little mistake you are in jail. But since there is no way out he accepted and was employed. In his security location a man met him in search of a location to shoot a film, Abdulai took that opportunity and explained himself to the man who assured him of helping him become a journalist. M.J Sessy Kamara - the man, took Abdulai to his office at WeOwnTv and also introduced him to Free Radio 95.7 fm - an Islamic medium. At Free Radio standards were not set and Abdulai's expectations as an effective full time journalist were not met. Sessy at this time did not pay much attention in helping him. In all of this, Abdulai still practise on the street as a journalist at the same time a security guard at night, because his only source of survival is from the security job. Abdulai K Koroma is presently seeking help for University studies come next year! Hello @: [email protected] STAY TUNED FOR THIS STORY! #mystory #needhelpnow #sweetsalone #Weowntv by: Abdulai K Koroma

SOLDIER WASHES HIS MAD FRIENDS. A mad man call soldier is well known in the city of Freetown for sanitation which let him has the attention of many people. He roams about in the centre of the city and the West side searching for his mad counterpart; men and women to clean them up. This cleaning exercise is sometimes  done forcefully because other mad contemporaries would not allow. Soldier who has been known for strength, stamina, and endurance always succeeds in subduing those who refuse to be clean up. He happily uses his own money to buy bundles of water,  packets of razor blade and soap for the cleaning exercise. Interestingly after washing them up, they still wear their old mad man's garment. Sensitively, soldier refuses to be snapped and filmed but as an  investigative journalist I try to have this. #sweetsalone #healthiswealth #weowntv by: Abdulai K Koroma

ISATU SUFFERS FROM HER STEP MOTHER. In the village call Nekekoro, there lived a woman and her step daughter. Apparently all she knows was that the woman is her true mother. Isatu is well known throughout the neighbouring villages as a best dancer. Undergoing so many maltreatment from her step mother Isatu perseveres and pray for a better matrimonial home in order to escape all tragedy. Eventually the eldest son of the Paramount chief wanted to married and the condition set aside was to get the best dancer for him. Upon hearing this news, the day for this great occasion Isatu's step mother sent her to the farm just to escape her destiny. Isatu on the way to the farm met her friend who took her back to the village and encourages her to take part in the dancing competition; eventually she emerged as the winner and gets married to the chef's son. #Weowntv #sweetsalone #mamaAfrica by: Fatmata Mansaray

UNUSUAL TRAFFIC JAM IN FREETOWN As in any cities in the world;Freetown is the most populated city in Sierra Leone mainly for commercial purposes and the improvement of living standards of people. In Sierra Leone there is more centralization than decentralization which frustrates the stay of many professionals in the rural areas of the country. This long traffic congestion is as a result of the high influx of people in the city; the traffic jam is on either sides of the city - the East end and the West end of Freetown. In this situation,children who attend the afternoon school find it very difficult to get home after lessons in the evening. #sweetsalone #loveAfrica #WeOwntv by: Abdulai K Koroma

PEACEFUL PROTEST BY LIMKOKWING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS - FREETOWN Limkokwing university is one of the best universities in the world for Creative Technology with the hub in Malaysia and several other branches around the world. Closely after the construction of the university in Sierra Leone, met the outbreak of the Ebola virus which permits all public gathering and so the university did not commence lectures at that time. For the protection of lives, the decision not to start lectures was fair enough. The declaration of the country free of Ebola was a warmed welcome news to all the university students especially the Limkokwing's. But their joy was frustrated by the government and authorities in the education ministry for over the last six months. Letters have been sent to the President and several meetings were held with authorities; they only say the university will start lectures soonest, how soon nobody knows. In order not to sit down and time continue going the students organized a peaceful protest match to the president's Lodge at Hill station - Freetown, to ask him the way forward of the university. But as busy the President, he advices them to go home and come the following day in their campus to have a way forward meeting with all authorities involved in the affairs of the university. STAY TUNED FOR THIS! #breakingnews #weneededucation #sweetsalone by: Abdulai K Koroma

CLASH OVER A FAMILY LAND AT HASTINGS WHARF The Sesay family at Hastings are presently at logger heads with each other over some pieces of land. Mr. Gibbo Sesay the eldest son of the family, now claim all the land for himself and his children thereby leaving the younger brother Mr. Hassan out of the heritage. But already Mr. Hassan has sold two acres of land regarding his elder brother as a drunkard. In return the children of the elder brother now stand against any move or exercise on the remaining three acres of land. Apparently Mr. Hassan has no children and there is hardly any source of peace on both sides. Hassan regards his elder brother as a failure,drunkard with coursed from their father. #sweetsalone #endofebola #mamaAfrica by: Fatmata Mansaray

WEOWNTV CERTIFICATION CEREMONY AT CARITAS COMPOUND - FREETOWN Following the WeOwnTv story challenge for Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia several applicants were noticed from the three countries. But as in any competition only the strong survive. The seven selected people are in two categories; three winners and four runners up all from Sierra Leone. As part of the empowerment scheme WeOwnTv Sierra Leone organized a documentary film makers workshop for the selected people, thereby lecturing and bringing to light the technical aspect of a documentary film and the required Standards of a documentary film. This workshop was facilitated by Arthur Alexander Pratt - manager WeOwnTv Sierra Leone, Lansana Mansaray - production manager WeOwnTv Sierra Leone and Steven Douglas - Canadian journalist and documentary film maker. The successful completion of the six days workshop was a certificate and a grant giving to the selected people. The chairman for the occasion Mr. Ibrahim Sheriff of the human rights commission advices the selected people to make good use of the opportunity in order that other people will also benefit as this is the first in history ever in Sierra Leone for film makers to be fund for their project. He thanks WeOwnTv Sierra Leone especially the Executive director in America - Mr. Banker White for this great move. #breakingnews #WeOwntv #sweetsalone by, Abdulai K Koroma

WORK SHOP FOR THE SHORTLISTED MEMBERS OF THE WEOWNTV STORY CHALLENGE -2016 An ongoing lectures for the shortlisted members of the WeOwnTv story challenge; on film making and documentary which started early this month will end tomorrow at the Catitas compound in Freetown Sierra Leone. Various personalities are invited from the public and private sectors to grace the occasion of giving out certificate to the accorded participants. Verily the minister of information and some other reputable official will be in attendance. We therefore pray that the selected people will perform well for the good of those that were not selected this year. #weowntv #breakingnews #sweetsalone by: Abdulai K Koroma

SAINT EDWARDS SCHOOL COMPOUND - FREETOWN In the development of knowledge,wisdom,understanding and education in Sierra Leone, a school named Saint Edwards has contributed immensely in that direction since the end of the Twentieth century. Many people had gone through this great institution today, they are renowned people in various professions in our society and beyond. There is more to know about Saint Edwards school but the interesting thing is,its has never fall in its name, principles and standards but there are some corporate improvement which adds more value to it. #Edwardians #sweetsalone #educationiskey by: Abdulai K Koroma