Hon. Justice Abdul Rahman Mansaray has sentenced 69-year-old, Mohamed Jinnah Moriba to five years in prison for sexually touching a 12-year-old girl in Kenema district. The accused had been charged for sexual touching contrary to section 20(1) (a) of the Sexual Offences Act 2012 Act No. 12 of 2020. The case for the prosecution is...Read More
Lawyers representing the APC Members of Parliament that were removed from Parliament immediately after the general elections in 2018, yesterday October 20th 2020, told the Court of Appeal that they have instructions from their clients not to file synopsis or argue the appeal before the Court of Appeal until the Supreme Court hears and determines...Read More
Dozens of condemned inmates at the Pademba Road Male Correctional Centre will be relocated to the Mafanta Correctional Centre in Tonkolili district, three miles off Magburaka town, according to the Director-General of the Sierra Leone Correctional Service. Mr. Joseph Lamboi said that this was part of efforts to solve the overcrowding problem in the Pademba...Read More
The Southern Regional office of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has confronted public officers of the Sierra Leone Police, Immigration Department, the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF), National Minerals Agency (NMA) and the National Revenue Authority (NRA), deployed at the Sierra Leone-Liberia border town of Jendema, to address allegations of corruption received through the...Read More
The Minister of Finance Honourable Jacob Jusu Saffa has stated that the government intends to make major policy shifts in the area of agriculture, teenage pregnancy, health system, recurrent spending, among others. The Minister made this disclosure on Thursday October 1, 2020, during the formal commencement of the Fiscal Year 2021 Budget process in the...Read More
In its effort to curb bribery at security checkpoints in the region, the North-West Office of the Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday 3rd September 2020 engaged Police, Military, forestry guards and Road Safety personnel deployed at the Mile 38 check point and personnel of the Masiaka Police Division to warn them accepting bribes and other corrupt...Read More
Aimdu T. Mattia, a COVID-19 survivor, has told Premier News on Tuesday September 1, 2020, that together with five other members of his household were stigmatized after they had been discharged from a COVID-19 treatment Centre. Mattia spoke to Premier News from an interview at the Freetown Cheshire home where he temporarily stays, while he...Read More
Job Booster SierraLeone,a local agency which links job seekers with prospective employers,has on Friday August 14, 2020at REAPS Vocational Training Institute in Freetown launched new project titled “Salon Project” to help easesome of the effects of COVID-19 on young entrepreneurs in the job market in Sierra Leone. Team leader, MariamaKhai Fornah,said that the project dubbed“Job...Read More
Old boys of Christ the King College, a secondary school for boys in the southern city of Bo, who graduated in the year 2006 have on Saturday August 8, 2020 donated food and none food items to 13 retired teachers of the school. The donation took place at the school campus on the outskirts of...Read More
World Vision is a global Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender. World Vision International Sierra Leone (WVISL) has been operational since 1996 assisting communities with various interventions in health, education,...Read More
