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By Alpha Abu

Babadi Kamara is already a household name in sporting circles in Sierra Leone. His intervention in football in particular has somewhat given the game more meaning here, having brought class and foresight into it by embarking on ambitious projects more than any present day football stakeholder in the country.

By Ruth Yeabu Sesay

The University of Sierra Leone (USL) will today end its week-long graduation ceremony for the award of various degrees, diplomas, and certificates for its three constituent colleges of Fourah Bay College (FBC), the Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM), and the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS) with a total of three thousand four hundred graduands (3,400).

By Politico Staff Writer

 Chief Justice Babatunde Edwards says for the first time all judges from different cadre are undergoing training on electoral justice.  He was speaking at the start of a three-day training which started yesterday at Tokeh.

Edwards said the training titled “Fostering peaceful credible and inclusive elections in Sierra Leone 2022-2023’’ was designed to promote electoral justice.  

By Politico staff writer

The Parliament of Sierra Leone on Wednesday, 12 April debated and passed into law with some amendments to the Bill entitled, "The National Development Induced Resettlement Act 2023" for the security and development of Sierra Leone.
The Act according to a report by the Parliament Communications Unit, seeks to introduce uniform principles, to guide the planning, implementation, and monitoring of development-induced resettlement activities, and to provide for other related matters.

By Alpha Abu

The shooting-to-death in Makeni last Saturday of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mathew Gbanya has drawn condemnation from various Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and other sectors in the country.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Executive Director of Rainbo Initiative Daniel Kettor has said that 40.6% of the total reported sexual assault cases they received in 2022 are from Western Area Urban and Rural making it the highest of the six regions covered.

Kettor at the launch of the Rainbo Initiative’s SGBV Survivors’ 2022 data on the 5^th of April 2023 said that the Western Area Urban and Rural recorded the highest number of sexual assaults reported from six districts in the country with one thousand and ninety-eight (1,098) cases.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

A Survey conducted by Afrobarometer, through their partners in Sierra Leone, the Institute for Governance Reform (IGR) indicated that the proportion of citizens who prioritized their Sierra Leonean identity over their ethnic identity has dropped by 20 percentage points over the past decade.

The Report of the survey was made public on the 5 March 2023 in the presence of representatives of political parties, civil society, security forces, and the media at the Country Lodge in Freetown.