By Nasratu Kargbo
The Director General of the National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA) Mohamed Massaqoui says the authority with support from partners will introduce the use of online securitized legal identity documents next week. He told the weekly government news conference in Freetown on Thursday 9 September 2021 that the measure is aimed at mitigating identity fraud in the country.
By Alpha Abu
In a bid to capacitate electronic media practitioners in the effective transmitting of information on the Right to Food concept, Managers and Producers from 50 radio stations across the country have undergone training by Community Media Network CoMNet. The two day event held at the Culture Radio precincts along the Grafton- Regent highway, also looked at Food and Nutrition Security and Safe Water.
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Aviation, Brima Munda Sowa has explained to the Anti -Corruption Court (ACC) court in Freetown of a correspondence between him and first accused the Executive Director of the Sierra Leone Maritime Administration (SLMA), Paul Sobba Massaquoi during his trial and that of 5 others, at the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Court in Freetown.
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Justice Samuel Omodele Taylor yesterday granted a 100 million Leone bail to Politician Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray who is being tried in court for alleged sexual penetration of a school girl. The Alliance Democratic Party (ADP) leader was docked at the Sexual Offences Model Court in Freetown last year, accused of having abused the 15-year-old girl on separate occasions in Kono and Freetown.
Justice Taylor ordered that the bail be accompanied with two sureties who should be property owners in the Western Area.
A young UK startup, Koalaa has intervened to remedy the problem of especially upper limb prostheses in Sierra Leone.
A two-man team is in the country to roll out a prosthetics service with the aim of “fitting users with our innovative upper-limb prosthetic, and learning how we can be useful to Sierra Leoneans with a limb difference”.
In collaboration with the Cheshire Home for children living with disabilities, they fitted five young people including 8-year-old Abdul Karima Kabia with prostheses.
By Alpha Abu
A Mano River Union delegation is set to travel to Conakry, Guinea for talks with the Military Junta that toppled President Alpha Conde’s government on Sunday 5 September 2021. This was disclosed by Secretary-General Ambassador Medina A. Wesseh at a hurriedly summoned news conference at their Freetown, Sierra Leone Secretariat.
Wesseh said as soon as travelling modalities are convenient enough they will travel to Conakry for a meeting with the junta leader Colonel Mamady Doumbouya and his counterparts for dialogue.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
53 Foreign Nationals were on the 6th September 2021, sentenced to one month imprisonment and pay a fine of Le 200,000 each by Magistrate Abdul Carew of court No.1 in Kenema after they were found guilty on four count charges including illegal entry into Sierra Leone. Nine Sierra Leoneans, who were arrested during a Police raid on the house where the accused were staying, were acquitted and released.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
