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”.
By Saio Marrah
The Vice President of Sierra Leone, Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh has called on the administration of the University Of Sierra Leone (USL) to provide a data that indicates how much government is giving as subvention and the shortfall, for accountability and transparency.
The Vice President said this at the launch of the university’s Endowment Fund, a.
The programme was held at the Multi-Purpose Building at Fourah Bay College (FBC) Campus on, Friday 27th January, 2023.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamaras
The Government of Sierra Leone has approved the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) Manual to follow up on the implementation of audit recommendations for all public sector entities, issued by either the Auditor-General or the Internal Audit Department.
The formulation of the SOP manual was disclosed by the Ministry of Finance in a press release issued out on the 27th January, 2023.
By Saio Marrah
200 houses were known to have been affected in Zimmi town, Pujehun District, following a windstorm in the early hours of Thursday 26th January, according to a Ward Councilor, Abdul Karim Fofana.
Fofana said hundreds of people are without shelter and were sleeping in the open.
He said in some cases, up to 15 people are forced to sleep in a single room, raising fears of diseases spreading in the town. Zimmi Senior Secondary School was also destroyed.
By Nasratu Kargbo
The Director at the CEO’s Office, Leone Rock Metal Group, Salim Sillah says the company wants access to the railway and port in Tonkolili District.
Sillah during Committee hearing in parliament on the 26th January 2023 explained that the railway and port have played a significant part to the company’s growth, noting that if one has a huge deposit and wants to develop it, access to infrastructure is important.
“The rail and the port is a lifeline to our project” said the Director.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
