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
By Alimatu Jalloh The Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Affairs and its agencies with support from the World Bank have celebrated the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Day. The celebration was held at the Family Kingdom resort on Tuesday the 27th September 2022 with the theme: “Rethinking Tourism.” The Chairman of the occasion, who...Read More
By Hasbin Shaw The Ministry of Transport and Aviation on Tuesday, September 27, 2022, requested for a total of NLe 60,437,500 for the 2023 Financial Year (FY), in order to fully facilitate its Gazetted operations. The Director of the Ministry of Transport and Aviation, Hindolo Shaker, made this disclosure while presenting the Ministry’s Budgets Ceiling,...Read More
The Judiciary of Sierra Leone through the Judicial and Legal Training Institute (JLTI), with support from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), has organised nationwide professional training for all Magistrates on management and administration of Court cases; Managing ethics and integrity issues at Magistrates’ Courts; Jurisdiction of Magistrates’ Courts; Management and administration on the adjudication...Read More
By Sallieu S Kanu The Freetown City Council Represented by Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyer has visited victims and sites affected by the 11th September 2022 disaster with support from an anonymous Sierra Leonean based in United Kingdom. On behalf of the Council, the Mayor met with Adama who lost her nephew and whose father was badly...Read More
Built, the parent company of Sierra Leone technology company Built Financial Technologies (SL) Limited has been selected as one of the beneficiaries of this year’s Google Black Funders Fund in Africa. The company was selected as one of the 60 innovative companies across Africa to share in the non-dilutive $4M fund. The Fund is aimed...Read More
Skye Bank (SL) Limited, a leading financial institution in Sierra Leone and ranked among the top 10 banks in the country fully participated and won the Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL) Wholesale Foreign Exchange (FX) Auction. On Wednesday, 21st September 2022, BSL put an offer for sale of USD 8,000,000.00 (eight million United States dollars)...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker It was another disappointing day for Sierra Leone’s senior male football team Leone Stars as they were once again put down by a 3-0 defeat by DR Congo’s Leopards at the Stade Père Jégo on Tuesday. Prior to Tuesday’s match Sierra Leone had been humiliated by a 4-0 loss to South...Read More
The Legal Aid Board has provided representation to seventy (70) accused persons arraigned before the Honorable Justice Nicolas Browne-Marke, JSC at the just concluded September Criminal Sessions of the High Court from the 20 – 23 September 2022 at High Court No. 1 on Siaka Stevens Street in Freetown. The accused persons were part of...Read More
By George M.O. Williams More female than male obtained niversity requirement and two females also emerged as the first- and second-best performing students respectively during the 2021/2022 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in Sierra Leone. This disclosure was made on Monday during the national broadcast of highlights of the WASSCE results at the...Read More
