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By Abass Jalloh

The Director of Media and Communications of the University of Sierra Leone, Dr. Tonya Musa, has dismissed as untrue graduation dates shared on social media.

“We have graduation week, but we have not yet fixed dates for graduation,” Dr. Musa said. “The university will come out with dates to inform its graduands appropriately.”

By Politico staff writer

In an effort to help the West African news media community fulfill ‘a mission to improve governance, promote a community of informed citizenry, and entrench democratic accountability’, the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development [CJID], has officially been launched in Abuja, Nigeria, replacing the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism [PTCIJ.

By Politico staff writer  

With support from the Government of Sierra Leone, Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) of the Sierra Leone Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (SLEITI) has implemented a two-day pre-validation workshop in Bo on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) implementation, dubbed “Understanding the 2021 EITI Validation Procedure”

By politico staff writer

The newly appointed Security Coordinator at the Office of National Security (ONS), Abdulai Caulker, has subscribed to the Oath of Office before President Julius Maada Bio at State House.

By Abass Jalloh

The Deputy Commissioner of Insurance at the Sierra Leone Insurance Commission (SLICOM), Sheku Mattia has dismissed claims published by the print media that Sierra Leone has lost its membership of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Brown Card.

Speaking at a press briefing hosted by the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Deputy Commissioner stated that “Sierra Leone is still a member of the ECOWAS Brown Card.”

By Umaru Fofana

Police yesterday detained the Spokesman of the main opposition All People’s Congress party, Sidi Yayah Tunis.  

According to the Inspector General of Police, Ambrose Sovula, Tunis “was invited to report to the police…in connection with some utterances he made that bear some inciting words that have the propensity to undermine state security or national security”.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

More than 600 Coronavirus workers in Sierra Leone have put on hold their strike action for a two-day engagement with senior officials of the National Coronavirus Response Centre over salary delay and backlog payments, some for as far as 9 months.