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By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Ibrahim Turay and Ishaka Turay; two brothers on Tuesday 23^rd November this year appeared before Magistrate Mark Ngegba for wounding and assaulting two men  Ishmail Kamara and Saidu Alie Kamara after fight broke out over a plot of land.

The father of the accused, Ishmael Turay testified in defence of his sons after being led by lawyer Elobah.

He said on the 19^th October 2019, the complainant’s father, Saidu Alie Kamara reported his sons to the Lumley Police Station in Freetown.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

Lecturers and students of Fourah Bay College (FBC), University of Sierra Leone are mourning the death of Dr. Prince E. Kenny, former lecturer and Head of the Language Department.

Dr. Kenny according to sources served the college for about two decades and published some books before his death on Tuesday 23^rd November this year.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Magistrate Mark Ngegba, at the Pademba Road Magistrate Court in Freetown, has sent Thomas Emerson Conteh, a driver for the National Coronavirus Response Centre (NaCOVERC) together with Henry Coker (bike rider) and Sulaiman Kanu (student) on remand at the Male Correctional Centre for attempting to steal a NaCOVERC vehicle.

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Hawa Bah, the Prosecutor led in Abdul Rahman Kamara, a commercial driver and student in evidence as the first witness.

By Saio Marrah

The 2022 government budget has recorded an increase in the wages and salaries of government workers from Le3.75 in 2021 to Le3.90 trillion in 2022, an increase that represents 7 .7 percent of the GDP.

By Saio Marrah

The President of Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), Ahmed Sahid Nasralla, has called on journalists to practice their profession with responsibility while practicing their trade.

He made this statement on Tuesday 23^rd November, 2021 while commenting on the signing of Global Pledge on Media Freedom, by President Julius Maada Bio. He said in as much as journalists now have the freedom they want, they also have the corresponding responsibility in their profession considering repeal of the Criminal Libel Law.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice John Bosco Allieu has acquitted and discharged a man named Patrick Pearce alias ‘Pastor’ of Sexual Penetration charge.

Pearce was freed at the High Court in Freetown after the Prosecution failed to tender the Charge Statement and the Voluntary Caution Statement (VCS) of the accused, in court.

The Prosecution said the man on the 19^th May 2017 in Freetown engaged in an act of sexual penetration with a 12-year-old child.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Various stakeholders from civil society, the political and professional institutions have deliberated on the proposed data protection with calls   that government creates an agency to police the affairs of that law.