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By Saio Marrah

The United States Ambassador, David Reimer has awarded eight communities lead project organisations with the Ambassador’s Special Self-Help (SSH) grant totalling $ 40,000 (forty-thousand) to support economic development in the country.

 Formal presentation of the grant took place at the United States Embassy in Freetown last Wednesday..

The communities were selected from over 100 (one hundred) applications and had already commenced work as the first phase of the funds had been disbursed.

By Politico staff writer

President Julius Maada Bio, as Co-chair of the global Transform Education Committee, has participated in a virtual High-Level Steering Committee, HLSC, meeting by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation during which he asserted his commitment as a global champion in education transformation.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

Ahmed Sahid Nasralla, the president of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has said in Freetown that a draft gender policy which has been developed by his organizations Gender Advisory Panel will be presented in January 2023.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Director of Research and Policy at Institute for Governance Reform (IGR) Dr. Fredline M’Cormack-Hale says that the majority of Sierra Leoneans believe that domestic violence should be a private matter.

By Ruth Yeabu Sesay

As part of efforts to promote tax compliance and increase revenue generation in Sierra Leone, the Commissioner General of the National Revenue Authority (NRA) has revealed plans of establishing a tax court to trial cases related to tax administrations.

Dr. Samuel Jibao was speaking at a high level conference on taxation and development organized by the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) in partnership with Budget Advocacy Network and the NRA at the Radisson Blu Conference Centre in Freetown.

By Abass Jalloh

The Prosecution in the ongoing Magistrate Court  hearing  involving the Managing Director of Skye Bank Sierra Leone, Ikubolaje Nicol,  who is charged over the alleged killing of junior co-worker, Sinnah Kai Kargbo, has led two witnesses in testifying.

On Wednesday December 7, the prosecuting lawyer, Ahmed Bockarie, brought in Police Constable Mustapha Conteh as the first witness, attached to the Mountain Division in Freetown, and Nurse Augusta Kamara from Shuman Hospital at Pultney Street in Freetown.

By Alpha Abu

Bitter divisions within the National Grand Coalition (NGC) following members’ petitioning of the party’s lower level elections in seven districts, some of which were even rerun, have prompted the Political Parties’ Registration Commission (PPRC) to initiate a ruling.

The commission looked into the various mechanisms established by the party to address multiple election petitions at ward, constituency and district levels. The complaints had come from various bodies within the party.