The Chinese-owned Kingho Investment Company says one of its trains carrying iron ore from its mining site at Ferengbeya village in Tonkolili district to the port of Pepel hit a 2 year-old girl on Saturday 20th March, 2021 near Yonkoro village in Portloko district.
Law School to be more accessible outside Freetown
By Francis H. Murray
Sierra Leone’s Chief Justice who is also Chairman of the Council of Legal Education (CLE) Desmond Babatunde Edwards has said that the Council would be exploring and devising “up-to-date state of the art strategies to make the school more accessible in district headquarter towns across the country and abroad”.
Sierra Leone cybercrime bill debate goes nationwide
A sensitization campaign on the cybercrime bill is taking place across the country under the auspices of the Ministry of Information and Communication following recommendations by the parliament. When communications minister Mohamed Rahman Swaray introduced the bill in parliament, both sides of the house urged the Minister and his team to spend the next two weeks discussing the details of the bill throughout the country for the ordinary people to understand what it intends to achieve.
RAIC Chairman bemoans low budgetary allocation
By Mabinty M. Kamara
The chairman of the Right to Access Information Commission, Dr. Ibrahim Seaga Shaw has mentioned low budgetary allocation to the institution as part of the challenges affecting the efficiency of its work.
Dr. Shaw made this statement on Friday, 19th March 2021 while briefing journalists at the launch of the Commission’s 2019-2020 annual report in Freetown.
Sierra Leone to introduce road audit
By Alpha Abu
Following statements by Members of Parliament attributing the many accidents on the roads to the attitude of drivers stopping on dangerous and authorised areas and casting blame on the Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority (SLRSA), its Executive Director Ibrahim Sannoh has told Politico that they are fully aware of the situation and are devising ways to curb the problem.
Hundreds of unemployed Sierra Leonean youth receive skills training
An ambitious USD 4.3 million vocational training programme implemented by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) this month registered its 940th participant, almost halfway towards the goal of preparing 2,000 unemployed young men and women to meet the domestic demand for skilled jobs.
Almost 60 per cent of young people in Sierra Leone are unemployed, driving their urge to seek work abroad, usually via irregular migration.
