News

By Saio Marrah

The Lebanese International School in Freetown has topped the just concluded letter writing completion conducted by the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary School Education (MBSSE) in partnership with the Sierra Leone Postal Service (SALPOST), grabbing the first and second positions.

Tamba Senessie and Sahr Senessie, two of triplet brothers from the school, held the first and second positions respectively in the junior secondary school level with a score of 86%.

By Ruth Yeabu Sesay

The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of Pharmacy Board Sierra Leone (PBSL) Fredrick V. Kanneh has assured Sierra Leoneans that the harmful cough syrup that was discovered in the Gambia is not in the country. He was reacting to news of a dangerous cough syrup which has reportedly killed 66 (sixty-six) children in the Gambia.

Speaking to Politico on the 13^th of October 2022, Kanneh assured the public that none of the drugs produced by India‘s Maiden Pharmaceutical is currently being sold in the country.

By Alpha Abu

The Independent Commission for Peace and National Cohesion (ICPNC) has engaged stakeholders in Falaba District in its latest tour of the provinces to help diffuse political tension in the country.  

Officials of the ICPNC held a discussion with a cross-section of the community people and local leaders at the Falaba district headquarter town of Mongo Bendugu. The visit was to present the commission and its activities so far, to the people, as well as to discuss ways they could all work together to promote peace in the country.

By Abass Jalloh

Magistrate Mark Ngegba of Pademba Road Court No. 1 in Freetown has remanded Saio Kamara, Joseph Kamara, and Josephine Kamara for allegedly defrauding Alhaji Ibrahima Sorie Jalloh the sum of OLe 385,000,000 (three hundred and eighty-five million Old Leones) for a piece of seven town lots of land at Hastings in the east part of Freetown.

By Nasratu Kargbo  

The Operations and Managing Director of TRIAD Engineering Company Ltd. Alhaji Amadu Sesay has said Sierra Leone has a 1,058,000 (one million and fifty-eight thousand) housing deficit. Sesay made this revelation at a press conference held on the 12^th of October 2022.

He said they found out the country was in need of that number of housing units to enable every Sierra Leonean to have a place to dwell after they conducted a survey back in 2016. 

By Nasratu Kargbo

People dwelling around the Old Airfield at Hastings have been ordered to vacate the area before the end of this October.  The order was issued by the Ministry of Transport and Aviation in a Press release dated 12 October 2022 in which it says it ‘’will take full possession of all such land on Tuesday, 1^st November 2022”.

By: AMINATA SAMEENA SESAY

The Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority (SLRSA) has decentralized new driver’s licenses renewals at regional level to accelerate a proper system.

This was disclosed on Thursday 13^th October, 2022 at the usual Ministry of Information and Communications Press briefing at Youyi building in Freetown.