Police have confirmed the arrest of an IT worker for the University of Sierra Leone, Lekan Ogundapo. It followed the discovery inside his office drawer at Fourah Bay College of 23 Sierra Leonean passports bearing apparently foreign names.
Kamarainba to leave APC, form new party
Kamarainba
Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray, the man who wants to become presidential candidate of the governing All People's Congress party, has indicated his intentions to leave the party and set up a new one, according to usually reliable party and family sources who spoke to Politico.
Steve Gaojia leaves PMDC
Gaojia
Former Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs who represented his People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) party under the power-sharing arrangement with the governing All People's Congress, has left the party.
No defence in Sierra Leone court martial
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Prosecution in the on-going mutiny trial of 14 soldiers, currently standing before the Court Martial at Cockerill in Freetown, has urged that the trial proceed even in the absence of the defense team.
Gerald Joseph Soyei told Judge Advocate Otto During that his application was based on several reasons, paramount was the fact that the defense lawyers neither communicated with the Judge Advocate nor the prosecution team “as courtesy demands”.
$4 million timber project kicks off
By Bampia James Bundu
An indigenous businessman, Alie Suma, has revealed that he has invested some US$4 million in the construction of a timber processing factory in the country.
Suma, who is the owner and executive director of Timber Harvester Processors and Exporters Sierra Leone Limited, made the revelation at the turning of the sod ceremony at the factory’s Waterloo site.
Sierra Leone storm leaves hundreds homeless in Kono
By Septimus Senessie in Kono.
A heavy storm in the evening hours of Easter Sunday blew off the roofs of scores of dwelling houses in Koidu, completely destroying some of the houses, leaving hundreds of people homeless, with property worth millions of Leones wasted.
There were no fatalities in the aftermath of the storm but some people sustained injuries.
Such was the intensity of the storm that some economic trees planted houses to serve as shields were virulently uprooted.
Storm leaves hundreds homeless in Kono
By Septimus Senessie in Kono.
A heavy storm in the evening hours of Easter Sunday blew off the roofs of scores of dwelling houses in Koidu, completely destroying some of the houses, leaving hundreds of people homeless, with property worth millions of Leones wasted.
There were no fatalities in the aftermath of the storm but some people sustained injuries.
Such was the intensity of the storm that some economic trees planted houses to serve as shields were virulently uprooted.
