By Ibrahim S. Bangura Abaiyomi Emeric Tulsidas, a multi-talented artist in Freetown, has passed away after many years of serving as a professional artist and lifting up the art industry in Sierra Leone. The sad incident occurred in Freetown on Friday, July 26t, 2024. According to Sajoh Jalloh, a local artist born in Sierra...Read More
Freetown City and Wilberforce Strikers have been granted a replay by the Premier League Emergency Appeals Committee, overturning the previous decision. However, no date has been communicated for the replay of the remainder of the time of June’s 30th top-tier football contest, which was later abandoned due to chaos. The issue began on June 30,...Read More
By Ibrahim S. Bangura The Ballanta Academy of Music and Performing Arts (BAMPA) at 27 Liverpool Street in Freetown, has on Wednesday July 24, 2024, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the ‘Playing for Change Foundation’ (PFCF) to help promote arts education in Sierra Leone. The formal signing of the MOU took place at...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka Coporal Abubakar Turay, the 23rd accused person at the ongoing hearings at the Court Martial, has on Monday, July 29, 2024 admitted before Judge Advocate Mark Ngegba and members of the court’s board that he took snapshots of Koita and others at Lungi prior to the November 26, 2023 failed coup d’état....Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker The Sierra Leone Women’s Premier League back-to-back champions, Mogbwemo Queens have paid a courtesy visit on the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA), ahead of this year’s qualifying tournament for the West African Football Union“A” Women’s Champions League. The tournament will officially commence from August 1st to August 11th at the Southern...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu The APC headquarters where the NAC meeting was held The National Advisory Council (NAC) of the All People’s Congress (APC) on July 22, held a meeting at the party headquarters in Freetown to better position the party after a year which was marked by limited progress due to the outcomes of...Read More
By Alusine Sesay How Hepatitis E virus infiltrates cells. Photo: www.bing.com Approximately 13.8% (about 1.1 million people) of the population of Sierra Leone live with chronic Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), while hepatitis C also affects many and requires urgent attention, the Ministry of Health said in a statement marking World Hepatitis Day on July 28....Read More
RAIC Boss Speaks on Progress in Accessing Digital Information By Amara Thoronka Dr. Ibrahim Seaga Shaw, the Chairman and Information Commissioner of Sierra Leone’s Right to Access to Access Information Commission (RAIC), has highlighted gains made by the country over the years in digitalizing access to information in Sierra Leone, especially since he assumed the...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka ToKuro Kudo, a Japanese National, has on Friday, 26th July 26, 2024 before Magistrate Sahr Kekura testified against Tarine Fairman, a US citizen, who allegedly defrauded him the sum of US$2,924,730 for mining operations. The complainant Tokuro Kudo who happens to be the first prosecution witness, led in evidence by Chief Superintendent...Read More
By Anthony Stephens Mr. Gibril Massaquoi was acquitted by a Finnish Appeals Court in January 2024, ending a marathon trial. The Finnish government has awarded €390,000 ($US426,00) in compensation to Gibril Massaquoi, the former Sierra Leonean rebel leader acquitted in January of war crimes and crimes against humanity prosecutors said he committed during Liberia’s second civil war between...Read More
