By Mohamed Foday Conteh
An eight-year-old girl has told the Model Sexual Offences Court sitting in Freetown of how she was sexually penetrated by one Joseph Lamin after she went out of her parents’ Waterloo home at night to urinate. Explaining her ordeal during the hearing of the matter on Monday 28 June 2021, the alleged victim said that on the 28th July 2020, she remembered the accused, Joseph Lamin, as the individual that sexually abused her.
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Two witnesses have testified at the high court in Freetown over a robbery matter that occurred in Waterloo involving an accused Alhaji Yusuf Fofanah.
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Speaking on the need to focus on the local production of staple foods, the Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr. Edward Hinga Sandy, has on the 24th June 2021, said that Sierra Leone imports rice worth over $240 million yearly.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
The registrar of the Eastern Polytechnic, John Juana has sent a stern message to lecturers of the institution to desist from demanding monies from students or exploiting them in other ways in return for grades. The registrar was addressing academic staff during a day’s in- service training at the institution’s Ahmad Tejan Kabba hall in Kenema on 23 June 2021.
Sierra Leonean migrant workers bound for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have been asked to leave the hotels where they were lodged and to return to their various homes due to the latest third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the country. The order was contained in a press release by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security which has taken full charge in the recruitment of mainly young women for employment as domestic workers in the Middle East and the Gulf States.
By Politico staff writer
Sierra Leone is ranked the 4th most peaceful country in Africa, according to the Global Peace Index for 2021. Mauritius tops the list followed by Ghana and Botswana. The Gambia occupy 5th position, while Sierra Leone’ neighbours Liberia and Guinea are 14th and 17th respectively in the rankings compiled by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), with headquarters in Sydney, Australia and branches in the United States and Oxford in the UK.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
The Teaching Service Commission has in a press statement announced the indefinite postponement of the Presidential Best Teachers Award.
The Award ceremony which was supposed to have been held last Saturday would be the first of its kind in Sierra Leone and is part of President Julius Maada Bio’s commitment to motivate teachers in order to ensure the quality aspect of his Free Quality School Education Programme.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
