The National Election Watch (NEW), a coalition of local and international organizations in Sierra Leone which support free, fair, and peaceful elections has on Monday, October 26, 2020, put out a statement in which it stated that the deferment of the Mid-term census to April 2021 has a likelihood of affecting the general elections calendar...Read More

Dr. Terry Rees, Executive Director of the Order of St. John Paul II, a world-wide canonical association of professional men and women that provides free technical expertise to Roman Catholic Dioceses, has on Friday October 23, 2020, in a virtual press conference expressed distress over Le2.63 billion, which he claimed Spire USA, Inc. owes the...Read More

The Sierra Leone Football Association has in a letter dated October 19, 2020 informed Kambui Eagles Football Club that it would not participate in the 2020/21 CAF Champions League owing to its nonfulfillment of CAF’s Club License requirement. SLFA in the letter stated that, “we regret to inform you that your club has not met...Read More

Residents of Freetown municipality have in an interview conducted on Sunday, October 25, 2020, expressed dissatisfaction over the inconsistent power supply distributed by the Electricity Distribution Supply Authority (EDSA), the country’s main electricity distribution agency. According to residents, power cuts have been constant in some communities and frequent in others.  They complained that it deters...Read More

The Bonthe Water Supply Project is currently in high gear with the construction of a Manager’s quarters, store, and workshop, molding of blocks for a perimeter fence, digging of a trench for laying pipes currently ongoing.  Actual work on the project commenced merely three months after signing of an agreement on the Bonthe Water Supply...Read More

Hon. Justice Abdul Rahman Mansaray has sentenced 69-year-old, Mohamed Jinnah Moriba to five years in prison for sexually touching a 12-year-old girl   in Kenema district.  The accused had been charged for sexual touching contrary to section 20(1) (a) of the Sexual Offences Act 2012 Act No. 12 of 2020. The case for the prosecution is...Read More