An appeals Court Judge presiding case at the sexual model Court in Freetown, Justice Alhaji Momoh-Jah  Stevens has convicted and sentenced 40-year-old Hassan Sesay to 45 years in prison for sexually penetrating his fiancée’s 9-year-old daughter and her two nieces ages 10, and 11, in 2021 in Freetown. He was charged under the 2019 amended...Read More

Nineteen residents of the Carlton Carew Community, closer to the Indian Temple on Wilkinson Road in the west end of Freetown, whose houses were gutted by a recent fire disaster, received a financial package from the Indian Community through the Indian Temple. The assistance is to help victims cope with the stress they are going...Read More

I have been following latest developments in the All People’s Congress Party since the party’s new constitution came to effect on March 25, 2022 after the Judge in the Alfred Peter Conteh’s case ordered for the setting up of a 21-Man Committee to adopt the new constitution of the All People’s Congress Party. Fast forward,...Read More

Freetown, 28 March, 2022-The Sports Writers Association of Sierra Leone (SWASAL) is  concerned with the preponderance pace of rampant violence, clash, and hooliganism amongst  fans, officials, and security forces in the country’s biggest football league-The Sierra Leone Premier League. SWASAL is shocked at the vicious incident that took place at the Bo Mini stadium in...Read More

They cast three people in each role, on the assumption that two would drop out before the final performance, and rehearsed most nights on an old basketball court in a girls’ secondary school, without overhead lights. For the University of Sierra Leone Theatre Group, the show would go on. “Can’t miss this play redefining the views about...Read More

January 15th, 1792, 15 ships departed from Halifax, Nova Scotia for Sierra Leone carrying 1,196 Black Nova Scotians, some 540 families. (Nova Scotia Museum)Read More

The National Centre for Vocational Studies (NCVS) on Sunday, March 37,2022 held it 39th graduation ceremony, where 20 graduands were awarded certificates at a convocation ceremony held at the Mount Zion Pentecostal Church in Freetown. Since NCVS its establishment in 1983, the institution has trained thousands of women who are gainfully employed in Ministries, Department...Read More

The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone (HRCSL) through the Directorate of Business and Human Rights and Labour Relations has concluded capacity building training for members of host communities at Koidu Lmited Mining Company in Koidu City, Kono District. The training focused on busness and human rights, labour relations issues and conflict mitigation. The training...Read More

Thousands of commuters were left stranded in the streets of Freetown on Monday as transport operators went on strike action. The drivers protested scarcity of diesel fuel and the 50 percent rise in fuel prices in past few weeks, and seemingly possible increase in the pump price of fuel. This medium observed on Monday that...Read More

This case was filed on September 2, 2021 before the ECOWAS Court. The victim was allegedly raped on in January 2019 by a Paramount Chief of her community. Though she reported the incident and took several medical tests proving she was assaulted, there has been no effective investigation till date and the perpetrator has not...Read More