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By Alpha Abu

Makeni City, north of Sierra Leone will today be teeming with thousands of mourners as they pay their last respect to the Late Bishop George Biguzzi. The remains of the long-serving former Head of the Makeni Diocese who died in Parma, Italy arrived on Friday, for laying in his final resting place as he had wished.

He served the Makeni Diocese of the Catholic Church for decades and was well respected and loved for his charity work and educational support to thousands of people in the north of the country.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Parliament has unanimously ratified an agreement for the construction of the country’s first transnational shipment port in Banana Island at Kent.

By Saio Marrah

Lawyers in the Sierra Leone New York chancery case have highlighted key points of their closing arguments, printed copies of which have already been submitted to Justice Adrian Fisher.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

A Court Order has instructed the Directors of the Sierra Leone Association of Women in Journalism (SLAWIJ) to take necessary steps to convene an Annual General Meeting (AGM) with immediate effect or not later than 30^th September, 2024, and urged that they grant all members the full rights of notification, access and participation.

By Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah

The suspended Deputy Auditor General, Tamba Momoh has in a press statement dated 12th July 2024 responded to a recent press statement from State House directing the Audit Service board to take the necessary procedure for his removal along with the Auditor General.

By Saio Marrah

The second accused in the ongoing treason trial has said in his defence that together with his co-inmate they were severely tortured to the extent that his cell mate died at a police station in Freetown.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

Ahead of the submission of the tripartite report to President Julius Maada Bio, the Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL) led a nation-wide regional stakeholder engagement in Bo, Kenema, Makeni and PortLoko during which citizens called for an inclusive, participatory and accountable implementation of the recommendations of the tripartite committee’s report.