By Nasratu Kargbo
As the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education bans corporal punishment in schools across the country, Teachers, parents, and heads of schools have reacted to the latest development with mixed feelings.
Quay Supervisor testifies in Ammunition case
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Testifying on Monday 20th September this year in an alleged arms and ammunition matter involving Member of Parliament Emmanuel Saidu Conteh and two others, Foday Fofanah, a Supervisor at Queen Elizabeth II Quay, said that bullets, magazines and other dismantled components of a gun were found at the back of a Nissan Pathfinder vehicle.
Falaba gets first water company
By: John S Conteh in Falaba
Since the establishment of Falaba as a district on its own by erstwhile president Ernest Bai Koroma’s led administration in 2017, the district has on the 15th September 2021 got its first sachet water processing factory.
NATCO Manager dragged to court
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
The Manager of National Confectionary Company (NATCO), Vijay Sharma, was brought in court on Friday 17th September 2021 on allegations of abstracting electricity illegally.
French citizen dupes eight in Sierra Leone in travel scam
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Evidence presented before Magistrate Sahr Kekura at the Pademba Road Magistrate Court in Freetown has implicated one Mustapha Daramy in a scam of over 220 million Leones.
Daramy was arraigned in court on Monday 20th September this year faced with various charges of obtaining money by false pretence contrary to section 32 of the Larceny Act of 1916.
Kroobay fire incident leaves dozens homeless
By Nasratu Kargbo
An inferno that occurred last Sunday 19th September 2021 Kroo Bay community, has according to an assessment done by a relief organization, Caritas Sierra Leone left over 500 hundred men, women, children and disables homeless in the slum community.
10 years imprisonment two for thieves
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Justice Alusine Sesay has sentenced one Pa Sorie Sesay, 41, and Abdulai Kamara, 22, to five years imprisonment each for stealing a steel door that belongs to one Fatmata Fofanah.
The two men were said to have broken into a store in Waterloo and stolen the said steel door which is worth the sum of one million, two hundred thousand Leones (Le 1,200,000) in November, last year.
