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By Politico staff writer

Sierra Leonean students in Russia have threatened to embark on a protest today 5 August 2022 at the Sierra Leone Embassy in Moscow over the delay in the payment of their stipends and other allowances including return flight tickets for students who have completed their courses.  

The Secretary General of the National Union of Sierra Leonean Students in the Russian Federation, Alhassan Bangura told Politico that they had not received their allowances since July 2021 for the 2020 academic year.

By Saio Marrah

Sierra Leone Parliament has approved the appointment of William Fayia Sellu, as the new Inspector General of the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) together with seven other presidential appointees to serve in different capacities.

The approval of the former Head of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the SLP by lawmakers on the 4th of August 2022 came after President Julius Maada Bio recently replaced the Former Inspector General of Police Michael Ambrose Sovula and his Deputy Elizabeth Turay.

By Nasratu Kargbo

The Parliament of Sierra Leone has passed legislation that criminalizes Public smoking and advertising of Tobacco Cigarettes in Sierra Leone; the parliamentarians during the debate on the bill entitled the Tobacco and Nicotine Control Act 2022 expressed strong resolve and willingness to discourage the act of smoking.  

Both smoking in public places and advertising of tobacco on different platforms such as electronic, print, etc. have on the 4^th August 2022 been considered illegal in Sierra Leone.  

By Politico Staff writer

The Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL) is set to begin the Boundary Delimitation and Demarcation of Constituencies and Wards in the country.

ECSL, in a press release dated 2^nd August 2022 also confirmed that it is setting up a Boundary Delimitation Technical Committee on clearly defined Terms of Reference.

By Abass Jalloh

The Minister of Technical and Higher Education (MTHE), Dr. Alpha Wurie, has stated that for this year three thousand three hundred and forty-four (3,344) candidates took the technical and vocational exams which were examined by the National Council for Technical Vocational and other Academic Awards (NCTVA). 

By Abass Jalloh 

The Ministry of Technical and Higher Education (MTHE) has announced that implementation of the students loan scheme will start the coming academic year starting September 2022.

By Newman Anthony Levey in Bo

A 14-year-old girl Fatmata Lahai was yesterday confirmed dead after a gruesome road accident involving a sand truck with registration number ARO195 in the central business district of Bo.

Fatmata according to the Police in Bo was on her way to town when the moving truck that had lost control ran into her and other people including a motorbike rider at the Bo Clock Tower roundabout leaving the others injured.