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By Mabinty M. Kamara

Despite the withdrawal of support towards the Mid-Term Housing and Population Census by the World Bank, Statistics Sierra Leone, the institution mandated to do headcounts in the country will move on with the process that will commence today, 10^th December 2021 as recently proclaimed by President Julius Maada Bio.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice Ivan Sesay has sentenced Abibola Lionel Jones, 38, to life imprisonment for killing his younger brother Sholade Jones, 26, at Hastings in Western Area Rural District.

The judge sentenced Abibola on Thursday 9^th of December 2021 at the High Court in Freetown.

According to Ekundayo Williams, a gardener who was present at the crime scene and first prosecution witness, he saw the senior brother chase his younger brother with a stick and hit him on the neck.

By Alpha Abu

Work on Phase Two of the fibre connectivity project along designated routes has reached 90 percent, nearing completion, according to the Director in the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC), Muminnie Jalloh. He gave the statistics in a presentation at the Media/Civil Society Retreat in Bo, which was organised by MIC for Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) to present their scorecard in line with the government’s manifesto and the Mid Term National Development Plan. 

By Mohamed Macarthy

The three members of a tribunal appointed by President Julius Maada Bio to investigate the activities of the leadership of the Audit Service took their oath at State House on Monday 6 December. 

Led by the retired Supreme Court Justice Nyawo Finda Matturi-Jones, they are mandated to do indepth investigations into the conduct of the Auditor General Lara Taylor-Pearce and her Deputy-Tamba Momoh on allegations of misconduct which led to their indefinite suspension from office.

By Political staff writer

The Executive Director of the Institute of Governance Reform, IGR a research organization based in Freetown has moved to quell what he called ‘rumors’ that his organization and two other groups – Fambul Tok International and Campaign for Good Governance ‘received Le1.8 Billion Leones in bribes from the government to coordinate the Government-CSO Dialogue series’.

By Saio Marrah

The government of the Junta Leader in Guinea, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, has instituted a commission of inquiry to look into the management of the country’s resources since post-independence.

Doumbouya said this in Guinea's capital, Conakry during the visit of the Mano River Union (MRU) diplomatic delegation on Sunday 5^th December 2021.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

After 28 adjournments with no prosecution witnesses led, Justice Sulaiman Bah has acquitted construction worker, Lamin Kanneh of sexual penetration charges.

Kanneh was cleared of the crime on Monday 6^th December 2021 at High Court No.2 in Freetown.

According to the Particulars of Offence, the 24-year-old construction worker is said to have sexually penetrated the alleged victim on a date unknown between the 1^st of January in 2019 and 31^st September the same year in Freetown.