By Mohamed Macarthy
A shipping company Bollore Sierra Leone, on the 14th January 2022 donated to the Freetown East-end Police division some consignment of building materials worth fifty-four million, two hundred and eight-nine thousand five hundred Leones (Le, 54,289,500). The presentation was made at the terminal down the port in Freetown and the materials were to serve as contribution to the police’s construction of a Post.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
At a well-coordinated event hosted by the National Political Debate Committee (NDPC), women from various political parties in Sierra Leone on Thursday 14th January 2022 debated issues in the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Bill that is currently awaiting parliamentary approval.
The bill among other things seeks to reserve 30% out of the parliamentary seats for women and in the cabinet. The bill also aims to improve women's access to finance, and to link government spending to improving gender equality.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has among other Africans been nominated champion of Blue Economy in Africa. Raila Odinga, Rotimi Amaechi, and others were also nominated for different categories within the Blue Economy. All are set to be inaugurated on the 12th of March 2022 at a public event in Nairobi Kenya.
By Mohamed Macarthy
The Secretary-General of the Bike Riders Union, John Samuel Kailondo Banya has urged for better understanding with the Sierra Leone Police for the interest of both parties and the general populace.
Banya told Politico over the weekend that many people depend on commercial bikes to move around and as such bike riders are key to the development of the country. He said they have one million, two thousand, and fifty-six (1, 2056, 000) registered with them nationwide.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
Police at the Blama police station are investigating one Foday Momoh, the speaker of Njala village in the small Bo chiefdom, Kenema district for an alleged disappearance of one Abu Kabba of the same village after both of them went on a hunting expedition.
According to sources, the suspect in question, Momoh returned alone to the village on Friday the 7th of January 2022 after he had gone with Kabba on the previous day to hunt.
By Mohamed Macarthy
The Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) has in a press statement urged all heads of secondary schools to submit comprehensive lists of potential WASSCE candidates and those who took the examination in 2021 and are intending to resist this year’s exam.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
Consumer rights Protection groups have described the Consumer Protection bill passed by parliament at the end of 2021 as a decisive move by the government of President Bio to protect consumers against poor quality goods and services in Sierra Leone.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
