By Crispina Cummings
Sierra Leone ministers clash over Le 5 Bn contract
JB Dauda
Minister of State, East, William Juana Smith and Internal Affairs Minister, Joseph Bandabla Dauda on Saturday 18th January engaged in a media battle on the Star Line Radio in Kenema over a Le 5 Billion contract awarded for the construction of the Kenema City Hall.
4 in ACC net in Kono
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
Three public officials and one civil society member have been released on bail after they were briefly detained and interrogated by police for allegedly stealing five solar panels meant for the rehabilitated under-five children’s hall.
Abacha Street trader convicted
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
A trader, who sells along a prohibited area on Sani Abacha Street in Freetown, has been sentenced to a fine of Le 75, 000 or must go jail for two months.
Adama Koroma, who deals in cosmetics, was arraigned before Magistrate Davies Cole of Court No. 5 in Freetown. She was arrested with two boxes containing cosmetics at Abacha Street last Friday.
She pleaded guilty to the charges and was subsequently convicted and sentenced.
FBC student remanded over "fraud"
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
A final year student of the English Department at Fourah Bay College was yesterday remanded at the Pademba Road prisons in Freetown on allegations of fraud.
Jaward Borbor Khalil, 23, stood before Magistrate Komba Kamanda of Court No.2 on ten counts of conspiracy to defraud, forgery, altering forged documents and obtaining money by false pretences.
Gov’t should hands off varsity - demands Dr. Tucker
By Mustapha Sesay
Director of the Institute of Chartered Accountant in Sierra Leone (ICASL) has called on government to hands-off the operations of universities and allow them to run as autonomous institutions and enhance performance.
Dr. William Tucker, the guest speaker at this year’s annual awards banquet at the Bank Complex, Kingtom in Freetown, said more investment was needed towards tertiary institutions and that “the university [of Sierra Leone] should never be for sale, irrespective of the economic scarcity to run it”.
Sierra Leone former Attorney General dies
Serry Kamal
Family sources have confirmed to Politico that Sierra Leone's former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Serry Kamal died this morning in the United States hours after a relapse, following what has been described as a "major spinal operation" at the John Hopkins Hospital.
