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President Julius Maada Bio is likely to announce today the date for the forthcoming presidential, legislative, and local council elections. 

Sources close to the presidency and the electoral commission told Politico close to press time last night that the polls will be held in June 2023. 

This will be two months after the five-year term of President Julius Maada Bio which started on 4 April 2018. 

The constitution of Sierra Leone demands that presidential elections be held within 90 days after the five-year mandate of the president. 

By Politico staff writer  

The Sierra Leone Roads Authority (SLRA) has paid compensation to 256 Property Affected Persons (PAPs) along the Bandajuma-Liberia border Road corridor. 

The compensation payment was done on Friday, March 4, 2022, at the Fairo Community Centre in Pujehun District at an event that was attended by representatives of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Audit Service Sierra Leone, Civil Society, and the media. 

By Abass Jalloh

The Foundation for Rural and Urban Transformation (FoRUT), which seeks to empower citizens to fight against human rights abuses and empower people, met with stakeholders from various communities in the Western Area in a bid to share their successes and challenges of their activities in the past year and  plans for 2022.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Residents in different parts of the capital, Freetown have expressed frustrations over the challenges they go through to access this basic amenity and expressed dissatisfaction at the way they say the problem has been overlooked by the authorities.

By Newman Anthony Levey in Bo

Sierra Leone’s former permanent representative to the United Nations who apparently turned down reassignment to the Arab republic of Egypt has returned to Freetown and has embarked on a tour of his party branches across the country. Dr. Kabba who served as National Campaign Chairman for the successful 2018 Bio-Jalloh campaign told SLPP members at the party office in Bo last week that the party has done so much since coming to power in the education, health, agriculture, youth unemployment and energy sectors.

By Anthony Newman Levey

Paramount Chiefs across Sierra Leone have in a meeting held in the Southern City of Bo expressed dissatisfaction over certain bills in the house of parliament awaiting to be passed into law.

 The Paramount Chiefs fear that the National Land Commission Bill, the Customary Land Rights Bill and the 2021 Paramount Chieftaincy Act will undermine their powers and therefore not good for them.

By Anthony Newman Levey in Bo

The United Methodist Church (UMC) last Saturday 5^th March 2022 went to the polls to elect a new Bishop during a four-day conference ended which commenced on Thursday 3^rd March 2022 at Tebit Memorial Church, Messima Section in Bo.

The position has been vacant since the death last year by the road accident of Bishop John K. Yambasu.

Four men, Reverend Professor Edwin Momoh, Reverend Francis Ben Charley, Reverend Emmanuel Pewa, and Reverend Boye Caulker are vying for the Bishop position.