By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Ibrahim Mansaray, lawyer representing former President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, has told Justice Adrian Fisher at the High Court in Freetown that the application filed by Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden was ‘scandalous’ to his client.
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Randa Skeiky, an accused in a $500,000 theft matter, has pleaded not guilty to the charge during trial at a Freetown high court, presided over by Justice Momoh-Jah Stevens .
The complainant in the matter, Ali Abess a popular transport businessman testified before the same judge in August last year. Abess, in his testimony, accused Skeiky of stealing the said sum. Abess told the judge the accused was managing his branch office in Kenema when he called her to come to Freetown as he would be traveling out of the country.
By Saio Marrah
The Chief Executive officer of the Kingho Investment Compan, Gilbert Zhao, has said that the name of Kingho Investment Company, which is the parent company of Kingho Mining, Railway, and Port Company, has now changed to Leone Rock Metal Group (LRMG) , with the aim of giving it a Sierra Leonean identity.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema.
A 44 year-old teacher at Ansarul Arazan Primary School in Kenema Adonis Vandi S. Kallon who lost his sight three years ago has appealed for humanitarian support. Kallon told Politico he has been teaching since 2009 after graduating with a teacher’s certificate. He said he has never been given a pin code and that his loss of sight has exacerbated his situation and therefore solicits support from the general public.
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
A High Court ruling by Justice John Bosco Allieu has ordered Villa International Guest House on 11 Edward Lane, Brookfields in Freetown to pay two of its staff a total sum of twenty-one million, one hundred and nine thousand, one hundred and eight Leones (21,109,108).
Villa guest house was dragged to court by plaintiffs, Christopher Bangura and Milton Fatorma on allegations of failing to pay their annual leave allowances for six years and benefit.
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Justice Momoh-Jah Stevens has sent one Mohamed Conteh, 56, on remand for allegedly having sex with his 17-year-old daughter in Lungi and Kambia .
The father made his second appearance at the Sexual Offences Model Court in Freetown on Saturday 16th October this year to answer to a crime of incest contrary to the Sexual Offences Act of 2012 as amended in 2019.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
