Mariama Kamara, 24, on Friday June 19, 2020 made her first appearance before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No.1 on Pademba Road, Freetown. The accused person is being preliminarily investigated on crimes of conspiring, intentionally wounding and assaulting Ajima Bayoh to cause her serious body pain. Police alleged that the accused Mariama Kamara alias “mummy...Read More

The University of Sierra Leone with support from Ing. Amara Tunkara on Thursday June 18, 2020, unveiled two different locally made ventilators and alcohol-based hand sanitizer developed by students of its three constituent colleges.  Students from Fourah Bay College (FBC), College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS) and Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM), developed...Read More

The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 announced the formation of a broad based committee named “The SLAJ Criminal Libel Repeal Advocacy Group” to lobby for the last lap in the process of repealing the Criminal and Seditious Libel laws contained in the Public Order Act of 1965. The...Read More

The European Union and the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has on Thursday June 18, 2020, launched a nationwide radio and television programme specifically aimed at addressing fake news and misinformation around COVID-19 circulating on social media and messaging platforms.  The radio and TV show will be broadcast twice weekly on Wednesdays at 2:00pm...Read More

President Julius Maada Bio has on Tuesday June 16, 2020, met with Resident Ministers, who doubled as COVID-19 Regional Coordinators, at State House and presented them with vehicles to ease their work in the fight against the Coronavirus. Chief Minister, Professor David Francis, who chaired the event, said that the move was part of the...Read More

Minister of Health and Sanitation, Professor Alpha Wurie, while addressing health workers at the National Stadium last Tuesday, said government will recruit 3000 nurses by 2021 with a view to strengthening the health sector in the country. Professor Wurie made the statement at the opening ceremony of a recruitment process organized by the Health Service...Read More

The Sierra Leone Police have arrested four people for an alleged case of murder of a five-year-old girl, Khadijah Madinatu Saccoh, whose autopsy report, lists manual strangulation (asphyial death), spinal cord injury, bitten tongue, vaginal and anal dilatation, finger nail excoriation, fracture of cervical vertebrae as the causes of her death. Mariatu Rashid, the Line...Read More

The Sierra Leone government has on Monday June 22, 2020, received the second batch of medical supplies from the People’s Republic of China to support the fight against COVID-19. Speaking during the handing ceremony, the Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone, H.E. Hu Zhangliang, said that the donated items include 10,032 testing kits, 5,000 PPEs, 15,000...Read More

The Civil Society Consortium on Accountability and Service Delivery has called on the Government of Sierra Leone to lift the temporal ban on timber transportation and give consideration to Domestic Board Sellers Association. The National Coordinator of the Civil Society Consortium, William Sao-Lamin told a news conference in Freetown on Monday that if the ban...Read More