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The Chairman of the Bo Rangers Football Club,Babadi Kamara has visited the President of the Guinea Football Association Antonio Souare to discuss issues of football  and explore the possibility of establishing a bilateral technical relationship  between Bo Rangers  and Horoya football club in Guinea.

Babadi  Kamara ,  reportedly went to the neighbouring country to explore avenues which could be used to create cordial relationships between the two countries’ football associations and among football clubs .

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice Samuel Omodele Taylor has ordered that 10 witnesses testify ‘henceforth’ in the ongoing trial of the accused person, Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray in a case of sexual penetration of a minor, that will resume this Monday 12 July 2021at the Sexual Model Court in Freetown.

Kamarainba is arraigned in court together with one Marion Arouni as the second accused and an accomplice on allegations of sexual penetration of a 15-year-old secondary school girl.

By Politico staff writer

32-year-old Abdul Brima Sesay, a gold miner in Tonkolili district northern Sierra Leone has on the 8^th July 2021 received a 10 year sentence for sexually penetrating a 14-year-old girl.

By Saio Marrah

As a way of safeguarding procurement practitioners in all Ministries Department and Agencies (MDAs) on procurement procedures, the National Pubic Procumbent Authority (NPPA) has launched its third quarter price norm, unveiling the different prices of commodities.

Price norm in procurement is the collection of items used by procurement entities in MDAS by showing the prevailing prices of various goods and services in the market.

By Saio Marrah

The Deputy Minister of Gender and Children’s Affairs, Buaki Bindi Hindowa, has disclosed that the Ministry has developed a Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Bill which is awaiting cabinet approval. The minister made the statement at the weekly Ministry of Information and Communication press briefing in Freetown, on Thursday 8 July 2021.

“As a ministry, we are dealing with the empowerment bill of 2021. The ministry and its partners are at an advanced stage in the development of the bill,” he noted.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

The Mano River Union Steering Committee of the Global Environmental (GEF) funded MRU Ecosystem Conservation and international Water Resources Management project has on Friday 9^th July 2021 ended a three day regional conference in Freetown.

By Politico staff writer

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Technical & Higher Education Professor Alpha Tejan Wurie, on Friday 9^th July 2020 joined the High Commissioner of India to Sierra Leone Rakesh Arora to inaugurate a           Tele-Learning Centre for online education from select Indian Universities at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone.