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By Politico staff writer

The new Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel, Annadif Khatir Mahamat Salehon on Monday 6^th September 2021 paid a courtesy call on President Julius Maada Bio during which he applauded his “ongoing institutional reforms in the country”.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Police Sergeant (7542), Mohamed Kanu, 35, at the High Court in Freetown has pleaded guilty to the unlawful killing of one Salifu Turay (RSLAF 18167125) who was a military officer.

Kanu was said to have killed Turay on a Wednesday 18^th March 2015 along Bathurst-Gloucester Road in the Western Area Rural District.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

In a bid to complement the vaccination efforts of the National Coronavirus Response Centre (NACOVERC), the Police in Kenema with support from NGO Welth Hunger Hlife (WHH) have taken Covid-19 vaccination sensitization to the people of Boama, Koya chiefdom in Kenema district.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

The Supreme Court of Sierra Leone has dismissed with costs, a lawsuit challenging the eligibility of the National Grand Coalition (NGC) leader to contest the 2018 general and presidential elections.

In the ruling the court, presided over by Hon. Justice Nicholas Browne-Marke said that Hon. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella (KKY) who represents constituency 062 in Kambia district presented his affidavits to the court that included copies of documents authenticating his renunciation of his US citizenship.

By Saio Marrah

Female students numbering 520 studying Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture and Mathematics (STEAM) in the various government -run universities have benefitted from the government’s  grant-in- aid.  The Minister of Technical and Higher Education, Professor Alpha  T. Wurie told journalists  at the government’s weekly  press briefing last Thursday that the students were among  6,125  that had applied for the 2020/2021 academic year grant.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has warned lecturers of the Eastern Polytechnic against money or sex for grades at a meeting held at the institution’s canteen on Combema Road, Kenema.

“We will not encourage rotten and bad people in the system but to sieve them from the system,” says John Juana, Registrar of the Eastern Polytechnic.

By Alpha Abu

Soldiers in the neighbouring country of Guinea have toppled the government of President Alpha Conde. 

In the early hours of Sunday there was gunfire around Kaloum an area in the capital Conakry, where the Presidential palace is located. 

Pictures then flashed on various news platforms showing heavily armed soldiers draped in the colours of the country’s flag surrounding another officer identified as  Special Forces Commander Mamady Doumbouya,  who then announced their action  to replace Conde.