By Politico Staff Writer
A-four-day retreat by Local Councils held in Bo on the theme: Deepening Decentralization and Enhancing Service Delivery in local government will end today 12th March 2021.
The four-day event was on the 9th March this year officially opened by the Vice President of Sierra Leone, Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh who doubles as the Chairman of the ministerial Committee on Decentralization.
By John S. Conteh in Falaba
Justice Abdul Rahman Mansaray of the High Court in Kabala presiding over cases at the Special High Court Criminal Session in Mongo Bendugu, Falaba district has sentenced Alusine Kombor Marah to 30 years imprisonment on a three-count indictment, including sexually penetrating a three-year old.
State Prosecutor Augustine Yarimeh Sogbo Mansary said the accused sexually penetrated the three-year old on 17th November, 2020 in Lensenia Village, about eight miles from the district headquarter town of Mongo Bendugu.
By Politico staff writer
Sierra Leone’s Minister of Energy, Alhaji Kanja Sesay, has expressed outrage at people who have in recent times been engaged in vandalizing and stealing electricity installations and networks in different parts of the country.
By Prince J. Musa
Through the Land for Life Initiative Sierra Leone, the NGO, Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD), has on the 10th March 2021 started a capacity building training for multi-stakeholders as a way of empowering them to mitigate land disputes at district and chiefdom levels.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
The Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of police, eastern region Thomas Mustapha Lahai has on the 9th March 2021 held a meeting with his Local Unit Commanders (LUC), operations officers, and other departmental heads in the six police divisions in the east at his regional headquarter office in Kenema.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
The Chairman of QGroup, a subsidiary company of mobile telecommunications operator, Qcell network in Sierra Leone has promised to bring more of his companies operating in other parts of Africa to Sierra Leone as a way of giving back to the country in which he was educated.
Chairman Mohamed Jah, a Gambian-Sierra Leonean was speaking by a telecast video at the launch of Qcell Sierra Leone’s latest product, 4G Lite in Freetown on Thursday, 11th March 2021.
By Francis H. Murray
The Management of the TransAir group, an airspace Travel Company has said that the Company will resume services by flying between Guinea and Freetown after they were brought to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Officials of the company made that statement on 10th March 2021 during a courtesy and familiarity visit to the Embassy of Sierra Leone in Guinea.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
