As a way of bringing the Freetown Teachers College (FTC) closer to the community, the newly elected Student Union Government of the Freetown Teachers College has on Monday July 6, 2020 paid a courtesy call on the Chairman of the Western Area Rural District Council, Kasho J. Holland Cole at his office in Waterloo. The...Read More
Kamanda Kamara, the deputy master of fishermen at Old Wharf, Wellington in the East of Freetown, has on Saturday called on the Government to reduce taxes imposed on them because they are not having enough catch as a result of the bad weather and curfew which starts at 11:00pm. He said that their time to...Read More
Pa Alimamy Mansaray, a community elder at Old Wharf in Wellington in the east of Freetown, has on Saturday July 4, 2020 said that the community lacks pipe borne water, good road and public toilets. According to Pa Mansaray, residents of the community pay Le 3,000 for a five-gallon jerrycan full of water usually drawn...Read More
The Executive Committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has officially announced that it will launch the African Women’s Champions League next year. The decision comes after months of deliberation about a female club champion’s league across the African continent. Head of Media Department at the Sierra Leone Football Association, Ibrahim Kamara, informed this...Read More
Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the Republic of Senegal, Alhaji Brima Elvis Koroma, on Tuesday June 30, 2020, visited Malika, a community in Senegal where 87 Sierra Leonean victims of Human trafficking are being held. At the Malika Community, the Ambassador and entourage were received by the Commandant of the Malika Police Division who briefed him on...Read More
The Legal Aid Board and the Ministry of Gender and Children’s Affairs (MoGCA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen response to Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV). The ceremony took place in the conference room of the Ministry at Cockle Bay in the west-end of Freetown on 30 June 2020. The MOU...Read More
Women of Bramaia Chiefdom in Kambia District have claimed that some staff attached to the Community Health Centre sometimes refuse to treat mothers and their babies who refuse to pay money. Speaking on behalf of a group of lactating mothers at Kukuna, the chiefdom headquarter town, Abibatu Kamara, a lactating mother, explained that nurses sometimes...Read More
Bintu Mansaray, the wife of Dr. Mahmoud Mansaray, now deceased, was on Thursday July 2, 2020 remanded at the Female Correctional Centre by Magistrate Marke Ngegba of Court No. 2 on Pademba Road for the allegedly killing her husband. She is currently been preliminarily investigated for the charge of murder contrary to law. Police alleged...Read More
Magistrate Marke Ngegba on Thursday July 2, 2020, ordered for two persons, Saidu Fofanah alias “shakur” and Komba Sandy alias “kartel”, to be remanded at the Male Correctional Centre on Pademba Road in Freetown. The two are charged with the crimes of conspiracy, robbery with aggravation, wounding and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. According to...Read More
The Sierra Leone Insurance Commission (SLICOM) has on Thursday July 2, 2020 signed an operational Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Sierra Leone Local Content Agency (SLLCA) at the Conference Hall of SLLCA in Freetown. The signing ceremony was attended by representatives from Sierra Leone Insurance Association (SLIC), SLICOM and the SLLCA. In his address...Read More
