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By Mabinty M. Kamara

The Town Chief of Henai Village in Malen Chiefdom, Chief Murana Koroma, has been remanded at the Pujehun Correctional Centre in Southern Sierra Leone after he was accused of stealing palm kernel from the plantation of SOCFIN Agricultural Company.

The town chief was arraigned before Magistrate Joseph Toby in Pujehun yesterday along with three others, including a SOCFIN security guard to answer to a charge of Larceny.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

The National Advocacy Coalition on Extractives (NACE) has welcomed the enactment of the new Mines and Minerals Development Act 2022 but has criticized the allocation of the surface rent to Members of Parliament and chiefs, saying that it is not a development fund but an entitlement of the landowners.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Deputy Chief Medical Officer Public Health, Dr. Alie H. Wurie says the use of tobacco nicotine and its other chemicals can lead to male erectile dysfunction.

Speaking in Freetown during an engagement held by Focus 1000 on the hazards of tobacco and nicotine, Wurie explained that a man’s genital organs might not be able to function well, affecting sexual performance.

By Saio Marrah

The Principal Project Director, World Monument Fund (WMF), Stephen

Battle, has in a consultative meeting with stakeholders in Freetown said

the institution will be rehabilitating the Fourah Bay College Old

Building situated in Cline town, Freetown.

He said the construction process was set to Commence within the next nine months.

The consultative meeting with the stakeholders that include community members from Cline Town is geared towards making suggestions on how the rehabilitation should look like.

By Abass Jalloh

Four accused persons - Amadu Bello Mohamed Tholley, Augustine Korfuma alias “Councilor”, Boibe Gibnia Conteh, and Daniel Samura alias “One Man Geng” - are before the court to answer to charges of conspiracy, robbery with aggravation, assault, carrying offensive weapons without lawful authority contrary to the laws of Sierra Leone.

By Abass Jalloh

Magistrate Isata Sellu-Tucker of the Pademba Road Court No. 2 in Freetown has remanded Foday Koroma in custody, for allegedly breaking into the house of Vitalis Ubawuchi and stealing a bag containing six million Leones (6,000,000) and a mobile phone valued one million five hundred thousand  Leones (1,500,000), all equivalent the old Leone currency. 

Koroma was charged with Housebreaking and Larceny.

By Abass Jalloh

Principal Magistrate, Mark Ngegba of the Pademba Road Court No. 1 in Freetown has instructed the Prosecution in the ongoing trial of  Kassim Watfa over the alleged murder of Sergeant Mahmoud Barrie, a soldier of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF), to do a follow up at the psychiatric hospital and the Correctional Centre about Watffa’s mental state, by Monday 29th August 2022.