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By Nasratu Kargbo

Members of Parliament have discussed issues bordering on medical ethics and standards, especially how medical practitioners treat their patients.

Constituency 032 MP Mark Mahmoud Kalokoh on the 31^st January 2023 during the debate on the Sierra Leone Nursing and Midwifery Council Act 2022 explained that he had visited hospitals and witnessed how nurses treat their patients with cruelty.

He stressed nurses sit in their offices browsing the internet or reading magazines whilst pregnant women are suffering.

By Saio Marrah

With support from Government of Sierra Leone and Plan International Canada, 57,500 pupils in 200 schools in Western Area Rural District, have been added to the School Feeding programme under the Free Quality Education Package.

This is according to the Deputy Minister(2) of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, Mamusu Konneh Massaquoi, during the launch of the feeding initiative at the Rural Education Committee Primary School, in Russel Village, on Monday 30^th January 2023.

By Ruth Yeabu Sesay

The Minister of Local Government Tamba Laminan has interacted with studentsof the Mass Communication Department of Fourah Bay College (FBC) now Faculty of Information and Communication Studies.

The visit was to inform students about the work of the ministry and some of the achievements made and what they as students should expect from their various local councils.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

The parents of the late Namisa Fatmata Kamara have pleaded for justice for their daughter whose body was discovered buried in a shallow grave in a compound at Sumaila town in Freetown.

The body of the 22-year-old IPAM student was discovered on 9 August 2022, eight days after she had disappeared, and up to now nobody has been charged.

By Saio Marrah

A judgment delivered by a panel of five judges of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone led by the Chief Justice, Desmond Babatunde Edwards has confirmed that the 2023 general elections be held by applying the Proportional Representation(PR) system of voting.

Justice Edwards stated “all the conditions precedent for the holding of or conducting of general elections of ordinary members of parliament through a District Block Representation system were met and/or fulfilled.”

By Alpha Abu

Saudi Labour officials and their Sierra Leonean counterparts are in advanced plans that would see hundreds of Sierra Leoneans recruited to work in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

This was disclosed by Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Dr. Ibrahim Jalloh in an exclusive interview with Politico.

He said the rapid turn of events was a culmination of two agreements  Sierra Leone’s Labour Minister Alpha Timbo signed  on behalf of the government , with the Saudis in June last year.

Sierra Leone to evict senior civil servants to make way for Turkish and Saudi embassies

By Alpha Abu

The authorities have ordered some senior civil servants and their families to vacate their quarters at Hill Station, close to State Lodge, within the next two weeks for their housing units to be knocked down and the land allocated to the governments of Turkey and Saudi Arabia to construct their embassies.

Some of the affected people told Politico they were “devastated”.