By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Justice Cosmotina Jarrett has on the 10th August 2021 granted bail to one Michael Abdulai who is on trial over allegation by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of selling fake COVID-19 vaccine card in Freetown.
140 containers of school materials arrive
Nasratu Kargbo
In a bid to facilitate the Free Quality Education (FQE) programme, the government of Sierra Leone has imported a hundred and forty (140) forty feet containers of teaching and learning materials. The Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator for the FQE Programme, Mohamed B. Kallon said he has received the books on behalf of the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE).
Sierra Leone eligible to vote in ILO
By Nasratu Kargbo
The Minister of Labour and Social Security, Alpha Osman Timbo has during a five day work shop on the 9th August 2021 said that Sierra Leone in now eligible to vote in the International Labour Organization (ILO), noting that the government has paid all financial obligations to the organization.
Efforts continue to release Sierra Leone detainees in Guinea - Info. Attaché
By Alpha Abu
The Information/Attaché at the Sierra Leone Embassy in Conakry, Guinea , Umaru Sitta Turay has said that the twenty- two young Sierra Leonean men detained by the Guinean authorities have legal representation and that efforts were being made to secure their release.
WOME calls for inclusion of women into mining governance
By Mabinty M. Kamara
As she launched a documentary titled “Amplifying Women’s Voices in Mining Communities”, the Director of Women on Mining and Extractives, (WOME), an advocacy and rights-based Civil Society Organization has called on the government to include women in the decision making process in the mineral sector.
Esther Kandeh said sidelining of women in decision making remains one of the challenges that they continue to face in mining communities.
Ferry service resumes at Gov’t Warf
By Saio Marrah
In an effort to reduce the hassle that commuters face catching the ferry in the Eastern part of Freetown, another ferry service owned by the government but run by a private entity, has resumed operations at Government Wharf in downtown Freetown, after a seven year break. The vessel named MV Bai Bureh took its maiden voyage from Government Wharf to the Tagrin terminal at Lungi across the Freetown Bay on Monday 9 August 2021.
Clerk of Sierra Leone parliament defends Speaker in row with journalists
By Saio Marrah
The Clerk of Parliament, Umarr Paran Tarawally, has on Tuesday 10th August 2021, said the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has the right to regulate the conduct of its members ( journalists) that sit in the press gallery within Parliament, but not the press gallery itself.
