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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 7^th 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.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice Momoh-Jah Stevens has acquitted Jacob Musa, a WASSCE pupil who was standing trial for sexual penetration of his 17-year-old girlfriend.

Justice Stevens said yesterday 13^th January this year that the evidence of the prosecution witnesses who testified against the young man were ‘incoherent’.

By Alpha Abu

President Julius Maada Bio has asserted that no entrenched clause in the reviewed Constitution of Sierra Leone would be rushed through Parliament, ahead of the country’s General Elections. He made the statement whilst launching the Government White Paper on the Constitutional Review Process at State House on Wednesday 13 January 2022.

The president’s assurances would help assuage the concerns expressed by critics that his government might attempt to have laws passed by Parliament that would disadvantage the opposition.

By Mohamed Macarthy

In a bid to continue their usual sensitization of women and girls, Rainbo Initiative a national non-governmental organization on the 13^th January 2022 funded 8 communities in Freetown with the sum of twenty-four million Leones (Le, 24,000,000) to embark on awareness-raising activities on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV).  

The project according to the Project Assistant Coordinator for Rainbo, Mary Yomba is a European Union-funded project with a lifespan of thirty months.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

The Minister of Western Region Nabila Tunis has engaged key stakeholders in the Western Area Urban district of Freetown at the Saint Anthony’s hall on Syke Street.