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Varsity gags lecturers

3:36 PM /

By James Tamba Lebbie
The Njala University administration has come out with a code of conduct and disciplinary policy for its staff. A document from the Office of the Registrar to Academic and Senior Administrative staff members, which has been leaked to Politico, states among other things that except with the prior authority of the Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University, no staff members should issue any press statement or take part in any public debate or discussion on any matter relating to the business of the University.

North tops voter registration

3:34 PM /

By Zainab Joaque

22 prisoners freed

1:29 AM /

Seven men, 11 women and 4 juveniles have been released from the Pademba Road and the Freetown Female prisons after they had been convicted by a Freetown magistrate court for loitering and jailed for six months. They include a pregnant woman who gave birth behind bars and a 16-year-old girl who was concerned she might miss out on her school-leaving exams starting shortly. According to a press release from AdvocAid, the civil society organisation that campaigned for their release, several of the detainees were injured, allegedly by the police.

Sierra Leonean woman becomes ECOWAS Commissioner

6:50 AM /

Six new Commissioners of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have taken up office in Abuja, Nigeria. They include Khady Ramatu Sacco of Sierra Leone who becomes the Commissioner of Administration and Finance. Mrs Sacco is the former Director of Finance and Budget at the Bank of Sierra Leone.
The new commissioners emerged following a recruitment exercise which has now been validated by the ECOWAS Council of Ministers at an extraordinary meeting, according to an ECOWAS press release.

Hundreds gather to transform Salone as SLPP calls it waste of resources

2:16 AM /

Hundreds gather to transform Salone
SLPP calls it a waste of resources

Airtel admits to fraud

2:13 AM /

A 2-week-long investigation into how unsuspecting mobile phone and internet users of Airtel have been swindled of their credits has revealed that the mobile phone company was aware of the practice but did nothing to stop it.
On 30 January, 2012 Politico took up the issue of deliberately deducting units from phones and internet modems for no service rendered with the company’s Rawdon Street Office in central Freetown and found out from its sales and customer care units that they were aware of the act but “it was a technology related misnomer.”