Hon. Justice Abdul Rahman Mansaray has sentenced George Nangbeh, a man found guilty of receiving items burgled by Musa Lansana and Joseph Saidu alias Gadafi, to 36 months in prison. He also sent both Lansana and Saidu to the Correctional centre in Kenema for a jail term of 84 months each. Police charged Nangbeh for...Read More
In a bid to ensuring public health safety, the Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone (PBSL) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation has on July 18, 2020, at the Bailor Wharf, Port Loko District, destroyed a consignment of illegally imported and counterfeit medicines worth over Le200 million. It could be recalled that on...Read More
Adama Bangura, an elder in First Street community in Kissy, east of Freetown, has said on Monday July 20, 2020, that residents lack pipe borne water which has led them to fetch water from a well that is contaminated because it is not properly protected. She added that the well in question dries up after...Read More
The Kenema District Registration Officer, Eric Kenei Juana has told Premier News in an interview that, efficient execution of the mandate of the National Civil Registration Authority helps government to know the population in the country (Citizens and Noncitizens); ensures proper records of births and deaths as well as causes of deaths; identify population categories...Read More
Sheku Rashid Kamara was remanded by Magistrate Hannah Bonnie on Monday July 20, 2020, after he was arraigned for allegedly wounding one Emanuel Cooper, an office assistant working for Eco-bank. Police alleged that the accused, Sheku Rashid Kamara, on Thursday June 18, 2020, at a car washing point at Tengbeh Town in the west of...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has, in consultation and congruence with the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE), established and launched a Task Force to eliminate malpractices and irregularities in public examinations to be conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC). This came after key stakeholders signed a communiqué, on July 16, 2020,...Read More
The Education and Outreach officer at the Monuments and Relics Commission, Mohamed Faray Kargbo, has acknowledged on Monday that, the old Fourah Bay College building at Cline Town is in a state of dilapidation. SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURES The Original Fourah Bay College building was in regular use till the Second World War, when the college...Read More
The Executive of the Sierra Leone Athletics Association (SLAA), has over the weekend distributed 25kg bags of rice and cash to 30 national athletes, as a way of supporting them in the crisis occasioned by the Coronavirus. During the handing over of the donated items to the athlete at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Senior Secondary...Read More
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has on July 21, 2020, approved US$30 million International Development Association (IDA) grant to support agricultural productivity and access to markets for smallholder farmer-agribusiness in Sierra Leone, The Bank said in statement on Tuesday. This additional financing for the Smallholder Commercialization and Agribusiness Development Project (SCADeP) will enable...Read More
The Sierra Leone Correctional Service has in a statement informed the public that on July 21, 2020, it released 153 inmates who were held at various correctional facilities across the country after they had been pardoned by President Julius Maada Bio on April 29, 2020. Initially, 234 inmates were identified for release, but due to...Read More
