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By Nasratu Kargbo

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative in Sierra Leone Fredrick Ampiah has called on implementation partners to ensure that they deliver on their 2024 work plan and that they do so within the time frame.  

By Saio Marrah

One Alhaji Dauda has told a magistrate in Freetown that Joseph Ngegba who introduced himself as a director in the ministry of finance told him, while destroying the gate to his property that he (Joseph Ngegba) was an integral part of the current government of Sierra Leone and he can do as he likes with no consequences.

By Saio Marrah

Justice Adrian Fisher, presiding over Ikubolaje Nicol’s murder trial has refused an amendment of the indictment to manslaughter, made by the state prosecution on the ground that it seeks to deprive the accused of a fair trial.

The amendment from murder to manslaughter also seeks to remove the jurors from presiding over the case.

By Nasratu Kargbo

One of the proposals made in the bill entitled the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating of Financing of Terrorism and Financing the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction of 2023, is for the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to become an autonomous body.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Sierra Leonean’s Vice President, Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh has pledged the Government's commitment to ensure expanded access to surgical services for all, across Sierra Leone.

Speaking at the 64^th Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference of the West African College of Surgeons (WACS) on the theme “Access to safe and affordable surgical anesthesia care in West Africa”, Jalloh said they will expand until every Sierra Leonean can access quality surgical services that they may need regardless of their income.

By Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah

Minister of Labour and Employment, Mohamed Rahman Swaray has said that over three hundred Sierra Leoneans are stranded in Niger in bid to go overseas, despite the government’s ‘efforts’ to dissuade illegal migration.

Swaray made this statement at the fourth anniversary of the Institute of Human Resources, Sierra Leone at the Freetown City Hall conference room.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

Police at the East-end Police Division in Freetown are investigating the death of 19-year-old Joseph Wusu Kabia Junior, an alleged ‘Kush smoker’ who is alleged to have been beaten to death at the ‘Fen-Fen corner’ community between Fourah Bay Road and Guard Street on the 29^th February, 2024.