News

By Bampia James Bundu

Officials of the Freetown City Council have defied the instructions of the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Diana Konomanyi to handover the management of the Freetown Waste Management Company (FWMC) to a company called MASADA International.

Speaking at a news conference at the FWMC conference hall, Councillor Ahmed Samba Turay of Ward 368 said the council would not hand over the operations of FWMC to anybody until and unless they went back to the drawing board and finalized all pending issues.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

A mudslide, blamed on town mining, has claimed the life of Pastor Aiah Fengai Adama of the Church of Miracles in Motema, leaving his wife, Finda Adama with serious injuries.

The Motema police division in the Nimikoro Chiefdom of Kono is looking into the accident which happened some 50 meters away from the police station.

By Septimus Senessie in Eastern Kono District

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has commissioned a newly constructed multipurpose Youth Centre in Koidu and a district agricultural office at Bengwema in the outskirts of the town.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

Police Constable, 7930 Sheka Mansaray of the criminal investigations department at Eastern Police Division has told Magistrate Steven Conteh in Freetown that he conducted a search on the alleged crime scene at 10 Hagan Street where he met the body of a deceased, Abubakarr Bangura, lying on the steps in a pool of blood.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

OCTEA diamond group, operating in the eastern diamond rich district of Kono, has facilitated the delivery of the long awaited two 3-megawatt thermal plants meant for the electrification of Koidu town.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

Isha Tejan-Sie, a matron at the Annie Walsh Memorial Secondary School boarding home has pleaded guilty to converting to her own use, monies paid to her by parents as boarding fees for their children.

Speaking from the witness box, she told Magistrate Steven Conteh that it was only out of "humanitarian feelings" that she took monies from most of the parents as their children were not qualified to be in the boarding facility.

By Zainab Joaque