Many Nigerian-owned shops in Sierra Leone will close on Monday 26 July in solidarity with the Biafra separatist leader, Nnamdi Kanu who is due to appear in court in Abuja on the same day.
According to Mazi Chidi Tendency Uchendu, the National Coordinator in Sierra Leone of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), their shops will be closed “in support of our leader who was kidnapped in Kenya and is due to appear in court on…Monday”.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
Sierra Leonean security experts and stakeholders in the health, agriculture, environment and water and sanitation sectors have engaged with research universities to review the country’s preparedness and response plan to curtail any possible outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), a disease that affects birds and humans. Authorities view the disease as a global challenge and a potential threat to the nation’s health system and food security.
By Alpha Abu
Sierra Leone’s National Coronavirus Response Centre’s (NaCOVERC) Chairman, Dr Sheku Bangura has challenged the UK’s Placement of Sierra Leone on the red list with stringent travel restrictions which came into effect on Monday 19th July 2021, noting that emerging data from Sierra Leone does not position the country to have reached the “Red Stage” of the Covid pandemic.
By Nasratu Kargbo
Members of Parliament will today Friday 23rd July, 2021 scrutinize the death penalty in the country’s law books for possible repeal. The process should have commenced on the 21st July but was postponed by the Speaker Chernor Abass Bundu in order to get the views of other stakeholders on the said bill.
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Justice Hannah Bonnie at the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) court in Freetown has on 22nd July, 2021 granted bail to Alimamy Kamara, a former Minister of Youth Affairs, under the administration of President Ernest Bai Koroma.
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
The Court of Appeal in Freetown has adjourned the matter involving former President Ernest Bai Koroma in his appeal for interpretation of section 48(4) of the 1991 Constitution for ruling.
The court made the decision on Wednesday 21st July 2021 having heard submissions from both representatives for the appellant and the State.
By Alpha Abu
The appointment of popular football enthusiast and philanthropist Babadi Kamara as Team Manager of Sierra Leone’s national football side Leone Stars has been confirmed. The businessman who is also chairman of high flying Bo Rangers football club will now take full managerial charge of Leone Stars, a position he would hardly find strange, having been seen in very interactive engagements with the players in the build up to the team’s triumph over Benin in the AfCon crucial qualifier played at a neutral venue in Conakry, Guinea.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
