By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Chief of Staff at the Office of the President has said that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) with funds for development in the New Year is set to decide on poor countries, among them Sierra Leone.
PPRC to organise reunion for APC, SLPP
Sierra Leone's political party regulatory body, the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC), yesterday met with senior members of the governing All People's Congress and the main opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) in the Goderich Community, according to a press release from the commission.
The meeting happened at the commission's headquarters in Freetown and was a follow-up to “a reconciliatory meeting” held at the Goderich Community Centre on Thursday 6th December 2012.
Civil society group calls for ban on Okada
A civil society organisation has called for a ban on street-trading and motorbike taxis, otherwise called Okadas, in the central business district of Freetown.
Sierra Leone court orders more arrests in journalist murder trial
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Presiding Magistrate, Komba Kamanda of Court No. 2 has ordered the head of the Criminal Investigations Department to arrest Police Constable Musa Samura alias Barthez of the Operational Support Division (OSD), and one Murray in connection with the trial of the accused murderer of journalist Ibrahim Foday, Tunde Williams.
NEC staff accused of theft
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
Some contract staff of the National Electoral Commission in the recent elections have accused the commission's pay team from Freetown and Ward Coordinators in Kono of fraudulently deducting from their remunerations.
Illegal schools to be shut down
By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema
The Deputy Director of Education in Kenema District, Claudius Wilson says there are many illegal schools operating in every part of the country.
