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By Nasratu Kargbo

The Milton Margai Technical University’s administration has banned the Students’ Union election which was scheduled for Friday 20^th August 2021. When asked whether the election was banned due to an incident involving a female presidential candidate who was allegedly stripped naked, the Principal Dr. Philip Kanu told Politico that the issue of the female candidate was not the only reason; citing also what he said was the chaotic nature of the campus then.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice Monfred Momoh Sesay has denied bail to 16 men accused of robbery, conspiracy, rape and sexual violence at the High Court in Freetown after the prosecution led in two factual witnesses.

Amadu Turay, Abdul Gibao and 14 others were on the 17^th August 2021 arraigned in court on 14 count charges all contrary to the laws of Sierra Leone.

By Saio Marrah

As a way of preventing multinational Corporations like mining and telecommunications companies from dodging government’s taxation, Movement against Inequality-Sierra Leone (MAI-SL), with support from Oxfam, has embarked on training of civil societies that would enable them advocate to the government for the development of a regulation or act on Transfer Pricing (TP). The theme for the event was ‘building on government action to reduce inequality.’

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

54 foreign nationals and nine Sierra Leoneans have been arraigned before Kenema Magistrate Court No.1   on multiple charges, with the non-citizens facing a charge of illegal entry into Sierra Leone.

According to the particulars of offence, the accused were arrested on the 22^nd of  July 2021 at No.16 school drive, IDA in Kenema following a tip off  about very unusual and suspicious events happening at the said address.

By Politico staff writer  

In a bid to revamp the Bunumbu Teachers College (BTC), the Government of Sierra Leone, through the Education Sector Support Project has secured a $15,000,000 grant to reconstruct and rehabilitate one of the oldest teacher training colleges in Sierra Leone. Work is to commence in January 2022.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

Ten youths arrested for allegedly attacking officials from the Ministry of Lands and Police personnel who had gone to witness the settling of a boundary dispute between the chiefdoms of Gaura and Dama in the Kenema district, have been released.   

By Saio Marrah

Simeon Harding, a final year student in the department of Management information Systems at the University of Management and Technology (UNIMTECH) has emerged winner of an essay competition for tertiary institutions, organized by Grassroots Action for National Development (GRAND). The title of the essay was ‘the Sierra Leone I want to see: Individual, Community and National Responses for a better Health Care System in a post-COVID-19 Sierra Leone’.