By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
The driver of a tanker vehicle fully loaded with petrol was reported to have lost control close to Annie Walsh School gate at Kissy Road and ended up crashing into the protective rails at Abacha Street, close to the East End Police station.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
The Sports Writers Association of Sierra Leone (SWASAL) has called on the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to investigate the Leone Stars trip to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for international friendlies.
They raised the concern in a press statement that was issued on 16 November, 2022.
By Nasratu Kargbo
The Chairman for the National Council for Civic Education and Development (NaCEED) Ibrahim Kalilu Totangi says Civic Education will be reintroduced in schools.
He made this statement on the 17th November 2022 after the introduction and first reading of a Bill entitled the National Council of Civic Education and Democracy (NaCCED) Act, 2022 by the Deputy Minister Planning and Economic Development (MoPED) Dr. Jonathan Titus Williams.
By Abass Jalloh
Magistrate Isata Sellu-Tucker of Pademba Road Court No. 2 in Freetown has sentenced John Koroma, Mohamed Samura, Alie Jalloh, and Charles Caulker to 18 months imprisonment and fined each of them the sum of NLe 4,000 (four thousand Leones) after they were found guilty of committing public order offences in Makeni during the violent anti-government protests on 10th August 2022.
By Abass Jalloh
A businessman, Ibrahim Kamara, has been arraigned for allegedly obtaining the sum of Le 30,000,000 (thirty million Leones) from one Abdulai Daramy having promised to refund it at a given time, but failed.
The accused, Kamara, 47, faces one count of Obtaining Money by False Pretence contrary to section 32(1) of the Larceny Act of 1916.
By Edna Amie Ngegbain Makeni
Appeal Court Judge, Monfred Sesay, has during the ongoing annual Judicial Week aimed at reviewing the cases of inmates and decongesting prisons, discharged 23 inmates from Correctional Centres in Tonkolili District, Northern Sierra Leone.
22 cases were brought before him on Monday November 14 and Tuesday November 15 in Magburaka out of which 14 inmates were discharged.
By Kemo Cham
For 10 years, as head of the Freetown District of the Wesleyan Church of Sierra Leone, Rev. Alie Sehdu Conteh never directly engaged with the media.
Even when he was encouraged to do so to publicize the good work of his church, he couldn’t bring himself to entertain journalists around him.
“I didn’t think that I had anything to do with the media. After all, my church was running well,” the soft-spoken clergyman, whose church is one of the most prominent Christian denominations in the country, says.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
