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By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice Monfred Momoh Sesay has on the 23^rd September this year sentenced 20-years-old Ibrahim Kamara, to seven years imprisonment for unlawfully killing his cousin Sulaiman Bah in Freetown.

Kamara was at first charged with the offence of murder but was later reduced to manslaughter on the request and acceptance of both the prosecutor, Joseph A. K. Sesay and defence lawyer, Komba Kanu.

By Saio Marrah

As a way of putting an end to the overpricing of public transport fares by commercial drivers in contravention of  a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)they signed with the Ministry of Transport and Aviation (MTA) whenever fuel pump price changes, MTA will by the end of 2021 set up a transport sector policy that will put an end to it.

By Saio Marrah

As a way of implementing the Kimberley Process (KP) in the Mano River Union (MRU) to combat the smuggling of minerals and enhancing the Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASM) development and livelihood aspect of artisanal mining, MRU has embarked on data collection and statistics management training of mining and revenue technical staffs in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

The call over of criminal cases from the last Session has ended on Wednesday 22^nd September this year at the High Court in Freetown, marking the beginning of a new criminal session on the judiciary calendar.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

In the petition case over the eligibility of the candidacy of Dr. Samura Kamara, to contest as the presidential aspirant of the All Peoples Congress (APC) party in the 2018 general elections in Sierra Leone, the Supreme Court has ruled that he was eligible to contest the election at the period under review.

By Politico staff writer

The Minister of Technical and Higher Education Professor Alpha Wurie is now Sierra Leone’s Acting Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister, following the trip to this year’s UN General Assembly in New York, USA  by Professor David Francis the substantive holder of that office.

By Politico Staff Writer

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) has requested for 321 billion Leones to ensure rice sufficiency by 2023.

The Agriculture Ministry made the request on the 21^st September this year at the Ministry of Finance (MoF) Conference Hall in Freetown where various ministries were discussing their budget for the 2022 Fiscal Year. MAF is set to increase rice production from 59% to 86% in order to attain the human capital development target of rice sufficiency by the year 2023.