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By Nasratu Kargbo

The Executive Director at the Institute for Governance Reform (IGR) Andrew Lavalie has said that the Unifiers’ Movement is to wage a peace campaign for the 2023 elections. He made this statement during discussions on this year’s citizens’ manifesto, an event held in Freetown on Friday 20^th January 2023.

“Too often we talk about violence, we do not talk about peace. So this election we are waging peace not war” said Lavalie

By Saio Marrah

Justice Simeon Alieu on Thursday 19^th January ordered a bench warrant for a Juror, Simeon Amara, after he failed to show up in three consecutive sittings in a murder case.

The judge wanted him detained at the Correctional Centre in Freetown for not honouring the High Court No.5 sessions in which an accused Abdulai Koroma is facing a murder trial.

By politico staff writer

The Government of Sierra Leone has signed an agreement with ARISE Integrated Industrial Platform LTD for the expansion of the Pepel Port and Railway.

The project’s business plan, financial model and pre-feasibility studies are estimated at 476 million dollars covering the refurbishment of the Pepel Tonkolili Railway, and the Pepel Port- Railway connectivity to Marampa mines.

It is also set to introduce passenger rail services and rail connection to Guinea.

By Saio Marrah

Justice Komba Kamanda of High Court No.1, has sent three  men, Alimamy Dumbuya alias Dead-Dead as first accused, Alie Kamara nicknamed Face-second accused and Idrissa Mansaray, all of May Drive Community in Regent, on remand at the Pademba Road Correctional Centre,  over  burglary and larceny charges.

By Saio Marrah

Just a week after the first fire outbreak at Wilberforce Barracks in Freetown left an apartment damaged, another fire incident has occurred at the same barracks leaving a whole block of apartments destroyed, and at least 36 families without shelter.

The latest fire outbreak occurred on Friday 20^th January 2023 close to the main electrical transformer that supplies power to the military barracks. Up to Saturday night the whole area was plunged in darkness.

TURKISH FERRIES MISSING IN ACTION?

We welcomed the two Turkish ferries recently with a lot of fanfare typical of the social media period in which we live but several months on we can’t feel the presence of those ferries. Is anything the matter? Are they waiting for the new airport and the expected increase in the number of people coming across the river?

By Umaru Fofana

Sierra Leone on Wednesday commemorated the end of the bloody 10-year war waged by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and their allies.

The carnage officially ended on 18 January 2002 after tens of thousands of people had either been killed or maimed and millions displaced.

Ceremonies marking the event were held at the civil war memorial at Robis, in the Kaffu Bullom chiefdom in Port Loko District – the scene of where 21 years ago President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah declared, “D WAR DON DON”.