Minister of Education, Youth, and Sport Minkailu Bah of Sierra Leone

ghost teachers invented by officials to embezzle money.

government headed by President Ernest Bai Koroma, who came to power last year promising to vigorously tackle corruption.

Mr Bah said he personally found five schools with 68 non-existent teachers.

Minkailu Bah has been embroiled in another mess involving the order to break into an office in his Ministry.

Minkailu Bah said ICT was the way forward for education and development in the country.

The Minister of Education Youth and Sports Dr Minkailu Bah has told football stakeholders including the two men vying for the Presidency of the Football Association that Sports is not like politics Dr Minkailu Bah said since he assumed office as Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, his office has been inundated with mixed loads of information regarding the management and administration of football.

Minkailu Bah has this week called on University authorities to automatically wipe out all additional educational fees and charges made since the coming to power of the All People's Congress Party.

In response, Dr Minkailu Bah said government sees students’ issues as a primary concern which needs the most urgent attention it deserves.

Bah expressed the government's positive commitment to develop football and thanked President Ernest Koroma and his vice, Sam Sumana and all those who worked hard to ensure that football's world governing body FIFA lifted the ban imposed on the national stadium.

Minkailu Bah said in the field of education, remarkable progress has been made over the years despite several challenges still ahead, adding that from 2002 alone, dramatic increase in the enrollment of pupils and students in various institutions has been made.

Minkailu Bah said this positive change in the area of education in Sierra Leone, was made possible with the introduction of free primary school education by the past government which led to the exponential increase in enrollment in the first three classes in primary schools especially.

Minkailu Bah has disclosed plans by the government to establish 48 technical and vocational institutes across the country.

Bah said it was the government who sponsored the team in the last Zone II tournament, in Guinea-Bissau contrary to an allegation by Africell mobile company that they sponsored the team.

Mr Bah is part of a government headed by President Ernest Bai Koroma, who came to power last year promising to vigorously tackle corruption.

Mr Bah said his investigations since coming into office uncovered a very different picture from the one painted by his officials.

On a tour of one district, Mr Bah said he personally found five schools with 68 non-existent teachers.