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By Nasatu Kargbo

The Government of Sierra Leone has allocated the sum of Le 349.5 billion to the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL) for the 2023 elections. This revelation was made by the Minister of Finance, Dennis K. Vandi during the first reading of the bill entitled The Appropriation Act 2023 on the 11^th November 2022.

Vandi explained that government was allocating the sum from the recurrent budget, as one of government’s priorities in the 2023 budget.

By Politico staff writer

The Political Parties Registration Commission, PPRC has invited “elders and senior members” of the main opposition APC to a meeting today to discuss the “conduct of the Interim Transition Governance Committee” the body that has been running the affairs of the party following a High Court ruling on the eligibility of the former party executive in April this year.

By Ruth Yeabu Sesay

School authorities have expressed concern over the growing street trading activities taking place in the vicinity of the Government Model Secondary school (GMSS) and the Wallace Johnson Primary and Secondary Schools close to the Hillside bypass road.

By Saio Marrah

The Sierra Leone Grammar School has emerged as the champion of the inter secondary school quiz competition organised by the National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT).

The Murialdo Secondary School from Lunsar, that represented the North West region of the country came second whilst Christ the King College from the South settled for the third position.

By Abass Jalloh

Magistrate Hadiru Daboh of Ross Road Court No. 3 in Freetown has sentenced Ibrahim Bangura better known as SLA to one year imprisonment after he was found guilty of beating up his grandmother, Mama Rita Bainda.

Bangura was standing trial on one count of Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm.

The prosecution alleged that the accused on Tuesday 31st May 2022 at No. 58 Wright Street, Wellington, Freetown, assaulted Bainda in a manner thereby occasioning actual bodily harm.

By Abass Jalloh

32-year-old Charles Bao is to serve 10 years imprisonment after he was found guilty of sexually penetrating a 13-year-old school girl.

The accused, Bao, was before High Court Judge,Alhaji Momoh-Jah Stevens  charged with Sexual Penetration contrary to  the Sexual Offences Act.

It was alleged that the accused on the 12th June 2021 in Freetown engaged in an act of sexual intercourse with the child.

Upon his arraignment, Bao denied the allegations levelled on him.

By Alpha Abu

The Co-ordinator of the Regional Rice Value Chain Project (RRVCP), Abdulai Bu Wai has told a gathering of Community Stakeholders, Project Partners and the Media that the Torma Bum rice farming project is on course, and that the start of next year will witness a full thrust by all its various components.