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By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice Manuela Harding has remanded in prison David Kamara alias ‘Mandela’ on allegations that he sexually penetrated a 15-year-old school girl he was supposed to provide with private lessons.

Kamara was arraigned at the Sexual Offences Model Court on the 2^nd December this year.

The State Prosecutor, Oladipo Robin-Mason Jr. led in the alleged victim as first prosecution witness.

By Politico staff writer

Police in Bo are investigating 53 males and one female over the alleged gang rape of a 17-year-old girl who was seen in a video that went viral on social media lying by the road side along the Gumasaa and Nyandehun highway in the Yawbeko Chiefdom, Bonthe District with a long metal inserted into her private part, as she gasped for breath.

By Saio Marrah

Member  of Parliament for the governing Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), Wuyatta Bernadette Songa of Constituency 008, Kailahun District, has called on her fellow members of parliament to  support repeal of the 1956 Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC) Code of Conduct, in a bid to upholding professional standards.

By Saio Marrah

Member of Parliament, Kadiatu Davies of Constituency 110, Western Area Rural District, has on Thursday 25^th Movember, 2021 called on the government for swift action that could lead to the completion of the Number Two/Tokeh road under construction.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice Ivan Sesay has sentenced 24-year-old Edwin George Williams Kona to 20 years imprisonment for wounding with intent.

Kona made his last appearance in court at the just concluded November call over after the State had alleged Kona wounded with intent Anthony Brown.

According to the medical report, Brown was stabbed three times with a sharp object. The report states that Brown suffered from a 4cm stab wound that required eight stitches in one of the stabbings.

By Alpha Abu

The Deputy Director of the National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT) Mohamed Kondoh noted compliance from would- be subscribers to the scheme as a key challenge facing the institution.

By Politico staff Writer

The President of Women’s Forum Network Sally Ndimawa Adams has expressed her organization’s appreciation for the work carried out by the National Council for Civic Education (NaCCED).