The Sierra Leone Water Company (SALWACO) has received seven forty-feet containers containing connection materials worth around Le16 billion, which had been brought in by China Friendship Salone (CFS) & General Services and handed over to the Agency at Degremont Kissy, in Freetown. It could be recalled that during the Third State Opening of Parliament, President...Read More
Bai Koblo Queen II, Paramount Chief of Marampa Chiefdom in Port Loko District, has on Monday July 6, 2020 continued his testimony in a matter emanating from that Chiefdom in which 30 persons mostly residents are being investigated for the crimes of Conspiracy, Murder, Arson and Malicious Damaged in relation to an attack on his...Read More
The new Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Anthony Yeihwoe Brewah, Esq. has on Tuesday July 7, 2020, subscribed to the Oath of Office at State House before President Dr Julius Maada Bio. President Bio congratulated him on his appointment and reminded him of how daunting his task is. He said that they wanted to do...Read More
In Support of the Free Quality School Education Programme in Sierra Leone, the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MB SSE) on behalf of the Government of Sierra Leone, has on Tuesday July 7, 2020 confirmed receipt of Le1,000,000,000 (one billion Leones) from Mr. Antonio Rudiger, a Chelsea footballer and German international of Sierra...Read More
Principal Magistrate Hannah Bonnie has on Monday July 6, 2020, admitted Moses Kamara, Dennis Kanu, Junior W. Bangura and Idrissa Kargbo to bail after the quartet had been arraigned for allegedly stealing farm tools belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. The matter is currently being investigated at the Principal Magistrate Court on Pademba...Read More
The southern region office of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has on Thursday June 25, 2020, cautioned local court administrators in Mattru Jong over acts of extortion and abuse of office. The warning came during an engagement with the court administrators in Mattru Jong, Bonthe District. The Southern Region Manager of the ACC, Musa Jawara, admonished...Read More
The Government of Sierra Leone has on Tuesday July 7, 2020, released its findings on a riot involving hundreds of inmates at the Male Correctional Centre on April 29, 2020 in Freetown. Thirty inmates and a prison guard were killed and dozens were injured after a riot broke out at the Male Correctional Centre in...Read More
As the country continues to grapple with Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) which is a social problem in Sierra Leone, the Legal Aid Board and the Sierra Leone Association of Women in Journalism (SLAWIJ) have on July 1, 2020, agreed to forge a partnership in the campaign against gender abuses which have increased amidst...Read More
A cross section of the Junior Staff Association of Njala University led by their President, Mr. Samuel K. Kamara has commended the strides taken so far by Professor Osman Sankoh (Mallam .O.) to make Njala University great again. They particularly singled out his astute management of the meager resources of the Institution in the last...Read More
The Commissioner of the Sierra Leone Insurance Commission (SLICOM), Arthur Yaskey, has on Thursday, July 2, 2020 said that presently the insurance sector contributes less than one percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the country. Commissioner Arthur Yaskey made this comment during the signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Commission...Read More