By George M.O. Williams The Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL) has extended the period of voter registration to two-day (7-8 October), the Commission said in a statement it put out on Monday.  The second phase of the voter registration exercise should end on October 4, 2022. The Commission said that before the extension period...Read More

By Fatima Kpaka Adikalie Suma, alias Kalamasinah, Mohamed Bangura alias pobom and Kamanda Sankoh were on Friday, September 30, 2022 sent to prison by Magistrate Mark Ngegba of Pademba Road Court No.1 for allegedly setting on fire the dwelling house of one Abubakar Suleiman Kamara. The accused persons who made their first appearance in court...Read More

 By Fatima Kpaka Esther Yeanor Koroma, a deputy Superintendent of Police and Head of the Firearms Bureau of the Small Arms Commission, on Monday, October 3, 2022 testified on the alleged case of unlawful possession of firearms by an ex-military man and six others during a Chieftaincy Election which was held at Sambaia Bendugu. The...Read More

By Sallieu S. Kanu In a move to protect adolescent girls from cervical cancer, the Government of Sierra Leone today introduced the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine to the routine immunization schedule and launched the start of a campaign to reach 153,991 girls with the vaccine. The introduction of HPV vaccine is one of the...Read More

By George M.O. Williams The European Union Delegation in Sierra Leone in corporation with the Freetown City Council, National Tourist Board of Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone Association of Journalist (SLAJ) and Shout Climate Change Africa on Saturday, October 1, 2022, cleaned up the Aberdeen/ Lumley Beach in a bid to raise awareness about the critical...Read More

By Fatima Kpaka Detective Police Sergeant, Issa Kamara, has on Monday 3rd October, 2022, tendered cutlass and pickaxe in the ongoing preliminary investigation into the alleged murder of one Memunatu Bangura. The accused are arraigned before Magistrate Mark Ngegba of Pademba Road Court No.1 on two counts of conspiracy and murder. According to the particulars...Read More

By Desmond Tunde Coker Brookfields City Football Club on Sunday won the Mano River Union Trophy in a post-game penalty after a 1-1 draw during the 90 minutes at the KT Field Kingtom Freetown. The gala was organized in commemoration of their 49th, anniversary with a two day gala seeing four teams battling for the...Read More

By Fatima Kpaka Justice Momoh Jah-Steven has yesterday sentenced a forty year old Abdul Mansaray of Mount Aureol in Freetown to twenty years imprisonment for sexually penetrating a 14 year old girl. According to the State, Abdul on the 26th day of November 2021 engaged in an act of sexual penetration with the victim who...Read More