Nasratu Kargbo
National COVID-19 Emergency Response Centre’s Vaccination Lead Tom Sesay has on the 21st 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 20th October 2021 at the Sexual Offences Model Court in Freetown on all four charges for which he was arraigned.
Politico staff writer
Police in Bo have stepped up raids against criminals in the city, arresting some men, seizing arms, ammunitions and drugs.
According to the Regional Police Commander South, AIG Aiah Edward Samadia, they have intensified security patrols in the Bo in order to ensure the safety and security of residents in the city and its environs. He stated that the two divisions there have embarked on raids to clamp down on both common and hardcore criminals.
By Nasratu Kargbo
The Gender Director in the Ministry of Gender and Children Affairs, Charles Vandy has disclosed that one of the things the Gender Empowerment Bill (GEB) will be looking at is the labour laws. He stated that people who are in the same rank, grade and perform same functions should be paid equally, no matter their sex.
STAYING ILLEGALLY IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY IS WRONG
We shouldn’t be having any big argument about this. Those who decide to use illegal means to enter a foreign country and exhaust their chances before immigration tribunals should be deported to the home country and their home governments should cooperate fully by providing the necessary papers to make that deportation possible.
By Politico Staff writer
The Sierra Leone Embassy in Berlin says based upon an agreement between the government of Sierra Leone and that of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Sierra Leonean side dispatched a team of experts from Sierra Leone to work with their German counterparts to identify ‘the origin of African Migrants deemed to be Sierra Leoneans and ultimately define their nationalities’.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
