By Saio Marrah
Freetown High Court Judge Monfred Sesay has sent to prison one Abu Bakarr Conteh for 12 months after he was found guilty of housebreaking and larceny.
He was accused of entering his cousin Lilian Tenneh Conteh’s dwelling house at Kossoh Town and robbing her of properties valued at New Leones7,550 (seven thousand, five hundred and fifty).
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
The Chairman of the National Council for Civic Education and Democracy Kalilu Totangi has urged all Sierra Leoneans to remain peaceful before, during, and after the elections.
"Keeping peace in the country is one of our core mandates as council’’ said Totangi. The Chairman made this call at a two-day annual retreat held in Kenema on the 26th and 27th of January 2023.
By Nasratu Kargbo
Bombali District remains the only district in the country where lymphatic filariasis also known as elephantiasis, is still transmissible in Sierra Leone.
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Public Health, Dr. Alie H. Wurie made this revelation on Monday, 30 January, during a panel discussion held to mark World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) day.
By Alpha Abu
Ishmael Koroma who fled the country after killing his girlfriend was on Saturday 28th January extradited to Freetown by Guinean authorities so he could face justice.
Ishmael, who in a video footage whilst detained in Guinea confessed to the killing, has been on the run since November last year following the discovery of the battered body of Fatmata Sesay in her room in Moa Wharf, a coastal slum fishing settlement in Freetown.
By Ruth Yeabu Sesay
The Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL) has reacted to the Supreme Court ruling on the Proportional Representation System.
In a statement issued on 31 January 2023 in the case that was brought by two members of the opposition All People’s Congress (APC), CARL cited complaints and arguments that the PR system ‘’undermines democracy because it vests excessive power in political parties and deprives independent candidates from participating in the process”.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
President Julius Maada Bio has signed a massive $ 311million (three hundred and eleven million) dollar electricity project for the procurement of 132 MW of solar PV across Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo and Chad for regional integration. This will see the conversion of sunlight into electricity.
The signing ceremony took place at the Radisson Blu main conference hall in Freetown yesterday evening.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
Sierra Leone has risen five places this year in Transparency International’s Global Corruption Ranking – from 115 in 2021 – to 110, out of 180 countries surveyed in the 2022 Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (TI-CPI).
This was disclosed in a press release by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Sierra Leone dated 31st January, 2023.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
