The Committee on Gender and Children’s Affairs in the Parliament of Sierra Leone chaired by Hon. Catherine Zainab Tarawally, has on Monday, October 31, 2022 concluded an oversight inspection on the Rainbow Centres in Pujehun, Kenema and Kailahun Districts respectively. The One Stop and Rainbow Centres were established in some Government Hospitals across the country...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh Syril Harold Smith, a man who identified himself as an Investigative Journalist, was on Friday 4th November, 2022 arraigned and admitted to bail in the sum of NLe 200, 000 after he made his first appearance before Magistrate Mark Ngegbe of Pademba Road Court No.1 in Freetown on the crime of fraudulent...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu Sierra Leone has again recorded very high score (79 percent) in the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) ‘Control of Corruption’ indicator, making it the fifth consecutive year the country recording huge progress in the MCC scorecard. Sierra Leone has consistently recorded outstanding scores in the MCC ‘Control of Corruption’ Scorecard, with 71...Read More
By Stephen V. Lansana The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) and the National Security Sector institutions on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, join the world to commemorate the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, and to reiterate their collective commitment to work together and with other stakeholders to ensure the safety and...Read More
By Stephen V. Lansana The Sierra Leone Local Content Agency (SLLCA) in collaboration with GIZ, a German Cooperation, and its partners on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, concluded a three-day stakeholders’ workshop on the review of the Local Content Agency Act 2016 in Freetown. The review process is supported by GIZ under the Regional Intergovernmental Organization...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka Tombo, the heartland of the APC in the Western Area Rural District, turns green, as Chief Abdul Kadiru Kaikai paid the people an honorable visit in getting them to believe that President Bio inarguably deserves another term. Abdul Kadiru Kaikai, a dynamic young man, passionate about the governance system of President Bio,...Read More
Analysis finds global practice is a major driver of marine ecosystems’ destruction and is estimated to run up to $50bn A patrol vessel escorting a Chinese-flagged fishing ship after it was caught illegally operating in Argentina’s exclusive economic zone. Photograph: Argentina’s Navy Press Office/AFP/Getty Images Developing countries are losing billions of dollars due to illegal, unreported...Read More
By Alusine Sesay The government of Sierra Leone has authorized the deforestation of communities through the lifting of a ban on logging and transporting of timber. It could be recalled that the government of Sierra Leone through the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the temporal suspension of all logging and transporting of timber products across...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh A High Court in Freetown president by Justice Komba Kamanda on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, sentenced Ibrahim Bangura alias No 9 to 270 months in prison for conspiracy, aggravated robberies and unlawful possession of firearm. According to the particulars of offense, the convict Ibrahim Bangura Alias No.9 on April 1, 2017, at...Read More
By Alhaji Haruna Sani Allen town Community Advocacy Youth Organisation (ACAYO) has on Sunday, October 30, donated school materials worth millions of Leones to sixty (60) vulnerable primary school kids. School materials donated included school bags, books, pens, pencils, crayons, erasers and geometry sets, all of which worth over Le 15,000,000 (Fifteen Million Old Leones)....Read More
