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By Saio Marrah and Nasratu Kargbo

Debating the 2021 Universities Act viewed as a long-awaited opportunity, Members of Parliament in Sierra Leone have unanimously applauded the bill and called it “injustice corrected” as it is something that the nation deserves and have long craved for only to have it now.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

An accused Mohamed Kamara has on Monday 5 July 2021 appeared before Justice Musu Kamara at the Freetown High Court No.1 on a robbery with aggravation charge. The man who had no legal representation was alleged to have wielded a stick during stealing of a motorbike valued at Le 9,700,000 belonging to one Mohamed Kamara.

He was charged with conspiracy to commit a felony with other unknown persons, and robbery with aggravation, contrary to section 23 subsection 1 paragraph A of the Larceny Act of 1916, as amended.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh & Nasratu Kargbo      

Defence witness No. 3, Mohamed Bangura, has on the 6^th July 2021 testified at the Sexual Model Court in Freetown involving Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray in an alleged sexual penetration of a secondary school pupil in Kono, eastern Sierra Leone.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice Michael Mamie has on the 2^nd July 2021 imprisoned one Alhassan Sesay to 5 years imprisonment at the Approved School for sexually penetrating a class 4 pupil, his ‘lover’.

Sesay is said to have in sometime in July 2020 had sexual intercourse with the underage girl at his residence in Eastern Freetown and was therefore charged with Section 19 of the Sexual Offences Act No. 12 of 2012 as amended in 2019.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

Sierra Leone is set to receive more vaccines in the coming weeks in a bid to meet the growing need for vaccination of the country’s population. This as the AstraZeneca vaccine stocks out.

According to the Public Health Emergency Communications lead, Harold Thomas they are purchased with funds that have already been remitted by the government of Sierra Leone from the World Bank Project to procure more vaccines in addition to those donated under the COVAX initiative and by China.

By Alpha Abu

Marampa Mines Limited Company, a subsidiary of the  Gerald Group, has announced the arrival of a ship to herald the commencement of shipment of iron ore out of the country, the first, since the company and the government of Sierra Leone reached an out of court settlement in a dispute between the two parties, some two months ago.  A statement released by the company indicated the arrival of its “first Ocean Going Vessel” and the start of loading of 65% iron ore concentrate at the Freetown Port.

By Politico Staff

The Council of Churches in Sierra Leone (CCSL) on the 2nd July 2021 issued out a press release to all heads of churches and their leaders regarding the announcement made by President Julius Maada Bio on the 1st July 2021, in which the President outlined some stringent measures to curb the third wave of the coronavirus, including a one month ban on congregational worship in mosques and churches.