By Francis H. Murray
The Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards, has warned staff and other officials of the Judiciary to desist from corruption and its related offences or face prosecution.
Justice Edwards was speaking on Tuesday, 10th November, at the Law Courts Building in Freetown, marking the official commencement of one week training for court registrars, bailiffs, administrative and other support staff of the judiciary.
By Politico staff writer
Cristian Font Calderon, the Spanish Ambassador in the Republic of Guinea, on 2nd November made a familiarization visit to the Sierra Leone embassy in Guinea.
According to a news dispatch sent to Politico from the Sierra Leone mission, Mr Calderon held discussion with Ambassador Alimamy H. Bangura, where the former reportedly expressed his desire to visit Sierra Leone by early next year.
By Politico Staff Writer
A 20 year- old Sierra Leonean woman who was deported from Iraq and got stranded in Senegal, has been taken in by officials at the Sierra Leone Embassy in Dakar.
By Politico Staff Writer
Plans to establish export cities in Sierra Leone took a giant leap recently when the brains behind the idea received prefabricated building materials.
The materials were handed over to Abdul Kadiru Kaikai, CEO of the ABCD Export City Project, in Instanbul, Turkey, on 27th October.
According to a statement issued by his communications handlers, the prefab materials will be used for the construction of facilities in its four project sites across the country.
By Francis H. Murray
In a bid to enhance the functional effectiveness and efficiency of its staff in the discharge of their duties, the Judiciary of Sierra Leone has embarked on week long training of its workers.
By Alpha Abu
The cities of Bo and Kenema are said to be having a total overhauling of their electricity systems as an expansive project to improve power supply in the two regional cities gets underway.
The Communication Specialist in the Ministry of Energy, Austine Luseni, in a telephone interview with Politico on Saturday said the power poles and lines have aged and would have to be replaced in the Bo/Kenema Electrification Project that is funded by the World Bank and the African Development Bank.
By Prince J. Musa in Kenema
As part of efforts to end transmission of the tropical disease elephantiasis in Sierra Leone, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, in partnership with Helen Keller International (HKI), has ended a two-day community awareness raising in two chiefdoms in Kenema District.
The awareness raising and sensitization exercise, according to officials, was designed to educate and build the confidence of community people ahead of a planned major testing exercise. The idea, they said, is to ensure that they do not misunderstand the exercise.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
