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By Nasratu Kargbo

The Head of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Richard Peter Gibao Roberts has said that the twenty-four juvenile protesters that were arrested as a result of the August 10^th demonstration are currently with Catholic mission-supported children’s organisation Don Bosco Fambul.

By Nasratu Kargbo

The Office of the outgoing Students Union’s (SU) President at Fourah Bay College has accused some students of destroying the university’s property during the chaos that broke out on campus last Thursday at the manifesto reading of one of the aspiring candidates for the Student Union Presidency.

By Alpha Abu

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Professor David Francis has held bilateral talks with his Japanese counterpart Yoshimasha Hayashi during the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) that took place in Tunisia over the weekend.

By Alpha Abu

Less than two weeks to  the start of a nationwide voter- registration exercise, the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL), on Wednesday conducted a symbolic launching of the process at the Freetown Brookfields Hotel, ahead of the event proper, which will  literally commence on the 3^rd September this year.

By Politico Staff writer  

The Minister of Basic and Senior School Education (MBSSE ) has announced that a cross-section of government Secondary Schools in Sierra Leone will  return to a single shift this coming academic year which commences next month.

Amongst the schools mentioned to make the shift from two shifts to a single shift were the Annie Walsh Memorial School, Methodist Girls High School, St. Joseph Convent, Saint Francis Secondary School in Makeni, and Ansarul Islamic School among others.

By Saio Marrah

Relocation of the Sani Abacha Street Market Women is set be announced by government before the weekend, according to the Executive Secretary of the Independent Commission for Peace and National Cohesion(ICPNC), Hawa Sally Samai, without naming the specific location.

She said this while responding to questions at the government’s weekly press briefing, organised by Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) in Freetown yesterday Thursday, 25^th August, 2022.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

The 2021 Annual School Census (ASC) has indicated that schools in Sierra Leone have increased by 13 percent from ten thousand, seven hundred and forty-seven (10,747) schools in 2018 to twelve thousand, one hundred and sixty-eight (12,168) schools in 20221.

This result was disclosed by the Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE), Dr. Moinina David Sengeh during the ASC Report launch on Wednesday 24^th August 2022 at the Ministry’s Conference Hall, New England Ville Freetown.