The Civil Society Consortium on Accountability and Service Delivery has called on the Government of Sierra Leone to lift the temporal ban on timber transportation and give consideration to Domestic Board Sellers Association. The National Coordinator of the Civil Society Consortium, William Sao-Lamin told a news conference in Freetown on Monday that if the ban...Read More
Inspector Mohamed Sultan Sewa, a police commanding office attached to the Moyamba Police Station, on Thursday June 18, 2020, testified before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No.1 that one Abdul Turay, with ill will, wounded him deliberately and in the process also caused grave harm to his person. The accused person, Abdul Turay, is being...Read More
Agriculture plays a crucial role in the development of national economies. For cash crop like cocoa, there are growing concerns about declining output due mainly to aging and diseased trees as seen in Sierra Leone where yields are becoming increasingly low. In the bid to overcome this challenge, the Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (AVDP) is supporting...Read More
Haja Mariatu Kamara, chairlady of Wellington’s Pan Bridge Market in the East of Freetown, has said on Monday June 15, 2020, that for over 30 years now the community has gone without a properly built stricture for the purpose of housing traders selling food items. She said that the situation has caused traders to be...Read More
The deputy Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Hon. Dr. Abu Abu Bakarr Karim has said on Thursday June 19 2020, that Sierra Leone faces major challenges in delivering health services for animals. The deputy Minister of Agriculture made the remark during the official handing over of the revised para-veterinary curriculum to the Ministry of Agriculture...Read More
Cordelia Johnson, a business woman at Goderich, has on Thursday June 18, 2020, testified before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No. 1 on Pademba Road that the sum of Le 50 million was stolen from her dwelling house. Fatmata Kargbo is the person whom she accuses for the theft of the money, and the court...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has said that it conducted concurrent sting operations at COVID-19 checkpoints in Four Mile, Six Mile and Mange Bridge, the Commission disclosed this in a press statement it put out on Thursday June 18, 2020. According to the Commission, it carried out the operations in response to intelligence entrenched in public...Read More
Life for Relief and Development (LFR&D) in Partnership with World Medical Relief International, has on Wednesday June 17, 2020, donated medical equipment and supplies to the University of Sierra Leone Teaching Hospitals Complex (USLTHC) on the outskirts of Waterloo. The local representative for World Medical Relief International, Haja Mariam Fadika, in her address at the...Read More
Abubakarr Kamara, who had been answering to charges of fraudulent conversion before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No.1 on Pademba Road, Freetown was on Thursday June 18, 2020 sentenced to 12 months in prison. He will serve his prison term at the Male Correctional Centre. The court concluded on Saturday April 30, 2020, that Kamara...Read More
Amara Dennis Turay commonly known as Kao Denero, a Sierra Leonean rapper, has been nominated by the 256 Hiphop Awards for the African Rapper of the Year 2020 Award . The award will be organized by the Konnected Foundation Inc. & the Kulture 256, a non-profit corporation based in Uganda which is dedicated to providing opportunities...Read More
