The southern region office of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has on Thursday June 25, 2020, cautioned local court administrators in Mattru Jong over acts of extortion and abuse of office. The warning came during an engagement with the court administrators in Mattru Jong, Bonthe District. The Southern Region Manager of the ACC, Musa Jawara, admonished court administrators to uphold integrity, transparency and accountability as tenets that would help ensure peace...Read More
The Government of Sierra Leone has on Tuesday July 7, 2020, released its findings on a riot involving hundreds of inmates at the Male Correctional Centre on April 29, 2020 in Freetown. Thirty inmates and a prison guard were killed and dozens were injured after a riot broke out at the Male Correctional Centre in Freetown, according to the Director of Sierra Leone Correctional Service. Joseph Lamboi told a news...Read More
As the country continues to grapple with Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) which is a social problem in Sierra Leone, the Legal Aid Board and the Sierra Leone Association of Women in Journalism (SLAWIJ) have on July 1, 2020, agreed to forge a partnership in the campaign against gender abuses which have increased amidst the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country. The discussion focused on how the media’s power...Read More
A cross section of the Junior Staff Association of Njala University led by their President, Mr. Samuel K. Kamara has commended the strides taken so far by Professor Osman Sankoh (Mallam .O.) to make Njala University great again. They particularly singled out his astute management of the meager resources of the Institution in the last few months and also expressed appreciation of their membership towards the drive. The President and...Read More
The Commissioner of the Sierra Leone Insurance Commission (SLICOM), Arthur Yaskey, has on Thursday, July 2, 2020 said that presently the insurance sector contributes less than one percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the country. Commissioner Arthur Yaskey made this comment during the signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Commission and the Sierra Leone Local Content Agency, held at the conference hall of Local Content...Read More
