By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
President Julius Maada Bio has called on partners from the Global North and South to support the Least Developed Countries' (LDCs) quest for structural transformation by promoting Infrastructure development, technology transfer, and foreign investment.
He made the call at the high-level thematic Round Table 3 on structural transformation in LDCs in Doha, Qatar on the 6th March, 2023.
By Politico Staff Writer
The trial of Dr. Samura Kamara, presidential candidate of the opposition APC has been postponed to the 27th of March 2023. The trial was due to resume on the 17th but judicial sources told Politico that the postponement has been caused by the fact that the US embassy needs time to process visas for lawyers on both sides and court officials to visit the Sierra Leone Chancery Building site in New York which is at the center of the case.
A 46 year- old man Aloysius Borbor Barbar of Upper Allentown has been remanded at the Pademba Road Correctional Centre for allegedly forging a marriage certificate so he could become a beneficiary of the National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT) scheme.
Barbar appeared before presiding magistrate Mark Ngegba on Monday 6th March 2023 charged with 84 counts ranging from conspiracy to defraud, forgery, altering a document, making a false statement, furnishing a false statement, and causing money to be paid to him by false pretences.
By Saio Marrah
A prosecution witness in the ongoing kidnapping case before Principal magistrate, Mark Ngegba of Pademba court No.1 has testified that the first and second accused, Prince Oscar and Emeka Ouigbo tied him up and that the first accused person started cutting his body with a knife.
By Alpha Abu
President Julius Maada Bio says the operations of the new Freetown International Airport will generate economic growth and sustainable development.
He told thousands of people who attended the formal opening of the complex in Lungi last Friday that he would now like to see more carriers take advantage of Sierra Leone’s strategic location to make it a traffic hub in the sub-region especially for South America and Europe bound passengers.
By Nasratu Kargbo
The Speaker of ECOWAS Parliament Sidie Mohamed Tunis has expressed frustration over the high cost of roaming data amongst ECOWAS member states, and the different tariff rates across the region. He also questioned why a West African traveler cannot use the same sims in two member states where the service provider is based.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
