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By Alpha Abu & Mohamed Foday Conteh

Members of two Parliamentary Committees, on Health and Sanitation and on Gender and Children’s Affairs, as well as representatives from the Female Caucus have held exhaustive training on the challenges women and girls are exposed to.

By Mabinty M. Kamara and Nasratu Kargbo

As part of its seasonal rainfall outlook for this year’s rainy season officials of the Sierra Leone Metrological Agency has warned of possible flooding in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown.

Presenting the forecast to newsmen at a press briefing held on the 18^th May 2021, the Deputy Director of the Sierra Leone Metrological Agency Gabriel Parker said the operations of the agency including the rainfall seasonal outlook is guided by the World Metrological Organization.

By Politico staff writer

Thieving of electricity power lines, siphoning of power supply by businesses and homes, and the latest spate of vandalisation of substations and transformers have become very alarming these days. The destruction of transformers in particular has plunged communities into darkness, an act that has caused public outrage.

By Nasratu Kargbo

A 16 year-old girl named Adama Kalokoh who has been diagnosed with breast cancer is pleading for assistance so she could get medical treatment that she so desperately needs.  

By Saio Marrah

President Julius Maada Bio at the state opening of parliament has showcased his three years of achievements and disclosed his development plans for the country.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh

Justice Alusine Sesay on the 18^th May, 2021 sentenced Joseph Maco Bangura and Andrew Jabbati Panda to 3 and 2 years imprisonment respectively in two separate cases of larceny and robbery at the Freetown High court.

Bangura, 25, was accused of stealing one Tecno Spark 5 mobile phone valued at 1,500,000 Leones on the 20^th December, 2020. The matter was brought to high court after a committal warrant in the Magistrate Court. He wasted no time in pleading guilty to the charge on the first day of his trial.