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By Saio Marrah

The Executive Chairman of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) in Sierra Leone, Dr Charles Joezil Silver, has during an interactive session with the media highlighted the need for governments across the African Continent to address issues of poverty, bad governance and violence.

He told the journalists assembled at the Ministry of Information and Communications in Freetown on Wednesday 20^th October 2021 that APRM’s aim is to complement the activities of government in addressing those issues.  

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Politician and Media Practitioner, Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden has asked Justice Adrian Fisher to nullify the outcome of the All People’s Congress (APC) party Convention held early October in Makeni.

Dr. Blyden argued at the Freetown High Court on Wednesday 20 October this year that the outcome of the said event did not reflect a representation of herself as well the majority of members of the APC.

By Alpha Abu

A government moratorium on the lease or sale of State Lands imposed in February this year because of the jumbled nature of the process, has been lifted. A statement from the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Country Planning disclosed that outstanding documents on land administration and management will resume on the 25^th October 2021 beginning with Freehold Land issues.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice Manuela Harding has sentenced a man Thaimu Bangura aged 49- to life imprisonment for sexually penetrating an 11-year-old girl in Freetown.

The judgment was handed on Thursday 21 October 2021 at the Sexual Offences Model Court in Freetown where Bangura was arraigned to answer to a charge of sexual penetration contrary to Section 19 of the Sexual Offences Act of 2012, as amended in 2019. The crime reportedly occurred last year.

Nasratu Kargbo

National COVID-19 Emergency Response Centre’s Vaccination Lead Tom Sesay has on the 21^st October 2021 told journalists during the weekly government press conference at the Ministry of Information and Communications about the commencement of vaccination surge 2 ,starting on Monday.

By Saio Marrah

The Parliament of Sierra Leone has unanimously approved, Sheka Mansaray, as the Chairman and seven out of eight board members of the newly established Independent Commission for Peace and National Cohesion. The other nominee was absent.

The board members of the Commission include Valnora Edwin, Alhaji Sulaiman Bah, Paramount Chief Sheku Amadu Tejan Fasuluku III from Kono district and Ambassador Haja Alari Cole.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice Momoh-Jah Stevens has sentenced one Ahmed Issa Kamara, a Forest Ranger, to five years imprisonment for leaking sex videos of himself and her then girlfriend.

Justice Stevens found Kamara guilty on Wednesday 20^th October 2021 at the Sexual Offences Model Court in Freetown on all four charges for which he was arraigned.