By Alimatu Jalloh Justice Adrian Fisher of the High Court has on Friday, 28 April 28, 2023 adjourned the matter between the state and Dr Samura Kamara and five others on July 14, 2023, after the presidential election would has been conducted. The judge rejected an application made by Lawyers representing Samura Kamara for passport...Read More
By George M.O. Williams The Independent Commission for Peace and National Cohesion (ICPNC) was officially launched on Thursday, April 20, 2023, at the Bintumani International Conference Center in Freetown. The Launching Ceremony brought together different national and international stakeholders who made statement that will foster peace and national cohesion in Sierra Leone. It was observed...Read More
By Alusine Sesay A large majority (78 percent) of Sierra Leone’s population is food insecure and one in five households (20 percent) are severely food insecure, according to a new report by the World Food Programme (WFP). WFP Sierra Leone Country Office: “Food Security Monitoring System Report” which was published on April 19, 2023, shows...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka The Parliament of Sierra Leone has on Thursday, April 20, 2023, ratified several economic agreements. The agreements which were ratified by Parliament are: 1. Financing Agreement ( regional emergency solar power intervention project) between the Republic of Sierra Leone and the International Development Association; 2. A Subsidiary agreement between the Government of...Read More
CTC Mining Commences Haulage of first Consignment of Bauxite to Pepel Port for Shipment The CTC Mining Sierra Leone Limited (Ltd.) on Thursday successfully hauled the first consignment of 50 tons of Bauxite to Pepel Port for shipment. It could be recalled that Kingho Railway and Port (KRP), the manager and operator of the railway...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka Tongo, April 17, 2023: The Legal Aid Board has provided legal representation to accused persons arraigned in the first post-war magistrate court sittings presided by Magistrate in Tongo Town in the Lower Bambara Chiefdom in the Kenema District in the Eastern Region. The sessions were the first since the end of the...Read More
By Stephen V. Lansana In a bid to conduct a violence free election, the National Security Coordinator of the Office of National Security (ONS), Mr. Abdulai Caulker Wednesday, April 19, 2023, assured that the Military Aid to Civil Power (MAC-P) will be robustly enforced during and after the June 24 elections. He made this...Read More
‘It has to pay for the girls to leave sex work. If they cannot earn as much, then they will always go back.’ By Ngozi Monica Cole Shanna Jones When Oxfam staff in Haiti were caught paying earthquake survivors for sex, many aid organisations moved to overhaul their safeguarding policies and tried to clamp down on the practice of transactional sex, noting the...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka Sierra Leone’s Newly Appointed Statistician-General & Chief Executive Officer of Stats SL, Andrew Bob Johnny has been unanimously elected to represent Sierra Leone on the UN Statistical Commission This will be the second successive term Sierra Leone will be serving on the UN Statistical Commission, the highest statistical body of the UN....Read More
By Shojobi Abisola The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has released fresh prophecies for some African nations including Sudan, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Liberia. In a statement signed by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin, Primate Ayodele made it known that the only way President Julius Maada Bio can win the election is...Read More
