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.
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.
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.
By Alpha Abu
The spate of vandalisation of electrical transformers and theft of power supply together with other acts of criminality associated with the energy sector are now being addressed with the formation of a crack Joint Field Task Force on Electricity. Senior officials of the force were on Tuesday 21st September 2021 introduced to journalists at the Ministry of Information and Communication in Freetown.
By politico staff writer
Iye Abu has on Tuesday 21st September 2021 been elected the first-ever female Students Union President of Njala University. Miss Abu joins her counterpart Adama Sillah of Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, to lead the male-dominated campuses.
President- elect Iye Abu won against male candidate, Mambu Lansana Vonjoe, a third year student studying B. SC in Public Health at the School of Community health sciences with a margin of 1, 236 votes while Mambu Lansana Vonjoe got 118 votes.
By Nasratu Kargbo
Teachers, parents and school authorities have been reacting with mixed feelings to the ban on corporal punishment throughout Sierra Leone which was announced by the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education. The SLTU principal has even suggested that they’ll send the kids away since they can no longer beat them.
By Politico staff writer
The Ministry or Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) has in a press statement announced the Anti-corporal Punishment initiative, reinforcing a ban on corporal punishments from all schools across the country including private owned schools.
The move to introduce the anti-corporal punishment initiative in schools according to the press statement will promote positive disciplinary methods and effectively reinforce ban on the practice of corporal punishment in all schools nationwide.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
