The Skills Development Fund Secretariat (SDFS) at the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education has on Tuesday June 23, 2020, engaged stakeholders on a US$22 million World Bank funded Development Skills Project with assistance from the Government of Sierra Leone, at the Atlantic Hall in Freetown. Grant Specialist for the Secretariat, Sallieu Barrie said that...Read More
The United Nations in Sierra Leone is shocked and deeply saddened by the horrendous murder and alleged acts of rape and torture of a five-year-old girl, which was reported in Freetown on June 17, the United Nations Office said in a statement on Tuesday. In the statement the United Nations in Sierra Leone extended its...Read More
Sierra Leone’s President, Julius Maada Bio has on Tuesday June 23, 2020, expressed his outrage and total condemnation of the continued incidents of rape, sexual and gender-based violence in the country. “The depravity of sexual violence is obscene, criminal, and totally objectionable. As a Government, we stand with the survivors, victims, and their loved...Read More
Principal Magistrate, Hannah Bonnie of Court No.1 on Pademba Road, Freetown, has on Tuesday June 23, 2020 withdrawn the file involving six accused persons that were answering to the allegations of 16 charges including the kidnapping of a police officer. Magistrate Bonnie withdrew the file after a no case submission had been made by defense...Read More
Globally renowned Telco, Orange has been present in Sierra Leone for only three years. Yet, it has already firmly stamped its innovative footprint on the country and its telecoms industry, bringing new era telecommunications to Sierra Leone. Since the inception of its operations in Sierra Leone, the Company has invested about $133 million in the...Read More
Members of the National Scrabble Association of Sierra Leone over the weekend unanimously appointed Christian Asgill as the Association’s new President. Speaking to the membership after his appointment Mr. Asgill pledged that his main aim is to include all crucial stakeholders who could contribute toward bringing progress to the Association. He took a philosophical view...Read More
Principal Magistrate Hannah Bonnie has on Tuesday June 23, 2020, admitted one Joseph Thullah, who was charged with the offence of dishonestly transforming over 1000 concrete bricks valued at Le 26,000,000 million. Thullah is accused of fraudulently converting property valued over Le 26 million which was given to him by Mariatu Jelikatu Sesay for safe...Read More
After a renewed bail plea by defense counsel for the first accused, Charles F. Margai Esq. on Wednesday June 24, 2020, Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No.1 re-admitted Dr. Sylvia O. Blyden, the proprietress of Awareness Times newspaper and former minister under the Koroma Administration, to bail. Defense counsel in his plea assured the court...Read More
The Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, has recently engaged the Krio Descendants Union and clarified certain crucial aspects of Freetown City Council’s (FCC) property rates and business license reform. During the discussions, Mayor Aki-Sawyerr explained that the new property rates is a fundamental change in the method of valuing real property which increased the rates...Read More
Detective Sergeant 1516 Conteh Abu attached to the crime writers/ exhibit office, C.I.D headquarters, Pademba Road has on Tuesday June 23, 2020 presented three old cutlasses and an old red t-shirt as exhibit before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No.1 on Pademba Road in a matter in which six persons are accused of kidnapping Nathaniel...Read More
