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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.

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.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Testifying on Monday 20^th 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.

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.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

The Manager of National Confectionary Company (NATCO), Vijay Sharma, was brought in court on Friday 17^th September 2021 on allegations of abstracting electricity illegally.