By Septimus Senessie in Kono
There is confusion at the top management of the defending champions of the suspended premier league, Diamond Stars. Two factions within the club are at each other’s throat apparently as fallout from the recent election in the Sierra Leone Football Association.
By Bampia James Bundu
Chiefdom speaker of Kamakwie, Momodu Kamara, has complained that the abrupt disclosure by the administration of Kamakwie Wesleyan Hospital resulted in a miscarriage, leaving the mother with serious complications in a Makeni hospital.
The mother, his niece, was due for labour at the time the hospital was shut down for days. He feared many more people might have suffered far more serious problems because of the closure.
The presidential task force on waste management says it will organise a special cleaning exercise on Saturday, 7 September with the possibility to extend it to Sunday for the collection and disposal of garbage in the capital.
In a press statement issued by State House on Monday, the task force said the cleaning exercise would help to maintain proper hygiene and sanitation in Freetown and in other parts of the country.
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
A 5-day professional capacity enhancement training for staff of the Political Parties’ Registration Commission has started at the Leone Lodge in Freetown.
PPRC Chairperson, Justice Tholla Thompson observed that “as a regulator of the political environment in Sierra Leone we are always looking for ways of capacitating our staff to be more effective in our role”.
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Magistrate Komba Kamanda of Court No. 2 has committed to the High Court in Freetown the case of an alleged theft onboard a parked aircraft involving a certain Moses John Wilson.
He was not represented by a lawyer.
Wilson was charged to court following an incident at the Freetown International Airport at Lungi where an aircraft carrying investors was broken into whiles its owners were in Freetown.
By Crispina Cummings
Parliament has summoned officials of the ministry of mines and mineral resources and those of the National Revenue Authority to answer to claims of fiscal indiscipline contained in the country’s 2010/2011 auditor general’s report.
Deputy auditor general, Tamba Momoh said that receipts issued by the ministry as payments totalling Le 18, 300,000 and $19,690 in respect of monitoring and rehabilitation fees, were not deposited into the bank account.
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