News

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.

By Politico staff writer

The Government of Sierra Leone is set to expand the school feeding programme to more Chiefdoms, through the 22 percent budget allocation to education from the Ministry of Finance.

This was disclosed during the reading of the Appropriation Act 2023 in Parliament last Friday.

By Mada Augustine Ngombu

The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) and the Sierra Leone Ex-Servicemen’s Association in collaboration with other institutions have celebrated people who fought in the two World Wars, the country’s rebel war and victims of past disasters, by holding a Remembrance Day Service and other commemorative events.

By Mada Augustine Ngombu

The Ebenezer Almighty Prospers (EAP) Group of companies in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Affairs and York Community in Western Area Rural are set to open a new city called “Motherland City” at the said community.

By Abass Jalloh

Magistrate Mark Ngegba of the Pademba Road Court No. 1 in Freetown has sentenced Yayah Kanu, Mohamed Kanu, and Mariama Bah to one year imprisonment after they pleaded guilty of possessing a drug called “kush” and ordered each to make an immediate payment of NLe 1,000 (one thousand Leones) as fine.

The three convicts - Yayah, 27, a trader; Mohamed, 30, a trader; and Mariama, 25, who is unemployed - were charged with Unlawful Possession of Kush contrary to section 48(1) of the Pharmacy and Drugs Act of 2001.