Darlington Collier, a security guard who allegedly stole 1000 litres of Diesel from George Taylor Lewis to whom he was assigned to provide guard duties was on Thursday June 24, 2020, arraigned before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Court No.1 on Pademba Road. According to the information from the police charge sheet, the value of item the Collier is said to have stolen exceeds Le 11 million. The accused is being...Read More

President Julius Maada Bio has on Tuesday June 23, 2020 encouraged an extra-ordinary virtual summit with colleague Heads of State and Government of the member states of the West Africa Monetary Zones (WAMZ) to unite in achieving the single currency agenda. With Eco being the proposed name of the new currency, the goal is to merge it with the West African CFA franc, used by most French-speaking members of the...Read More

Bed J, Coco Rhymes and Strokes, local musicians from a local music label in Freetown, Cloud Diamond Multimedia, have recently released a song titled ‘Hands of Our Girls’ to raise awareness on and condemn rape and violence against women and girls in the country. Coco Rhymes, who contributed in the song, said that they had been inspired to do the song by the ill-treatment without justice which girls are undergoing...Read More

The Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education in a press release on Tuesday June 23, 2020, provided travel guidelines for the relocation of teachers and pupils that are to take pending public examinations. MBSSE emphasized that teachers and pupils that are in examination classes of National Primary School Examination (NPSE), Basic Education Certificate Education (BECE), and West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) who had traveled away from their locations of...Read More

The Ministry of Finance has on Wednesday June 23, 2020, said that Government of Sierra Leone has commenced payment of salaries to Mayors, Chairpersons and their Deputies and have also increased allowances of Councilors. The Ministry said that the total remuneration for Mayors and Chairpersons has increased from Le 50.2 million per month to Le374 million per month or from Le 601.9 million per annum to Le 4.49 billion. The...Read More