News

By Prince Musa in Kenema

The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr. Edward Hinga Sandi, has officially launched a community store for the Sierra Leone Produces Marketing Company (SLPMC) in Kenema. The store which is one of many will sell both locally produced and imported rice at a lesser cost compared to the private businesses.

By Francis H. Murray

Dr. Abdulai Conteh, the lead defense lawyer for former defence Minister Alfred Paolo Conteh, who is the first accused in the on-going treason trial, has told the High Court in Freetown that his client had “no burden of proof to the court because the prosecution has failed to adduce any evidence in support of their indictment.”

By Francis H. Murray

Cordelia Jackson, a business woman in Freetown who alleges that one Fatmata Kargbo stole the sum of Le 50,000,000 from her, has testified before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie in the ongoing preliminary investigation into a one count charge of larceny in a dwelling house against the accused. 

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) and the European Union (EU) have announced a joint bid to tackle fake news surrounding the global COVID-19 pandemic.

As part of the collaboration, SLAJ will design radio and television shows that are aimed at tackling fake news about the health emergency.

In a joint press release from the two organizations, SLAJ President Ahmed Sahid Nasralla was quoted saying fake news posed a threat to national security. 

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

The police Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in the Eastern region is investigating three people for participating in a public demonstration thereby breaching the Public Order Act.

All three people were arrested by police last weekend. They had since been granted bail. Two of them are staff of the National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA); Gareth J. Saffa, an engineer working for the agency in Kailahun District and Mohamed Surbeihun Brima Biaka, also an engineer stationed at its Kenema office.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

The University of Sierra Leone (USL) has presented prototypes of locally invented ventilators and an alcohol based hand sanitizer to the government of Sierra Leone. The innovations were presented to the Ministers of Health and Sanitation and Technical and Higher Education as contributions towards the country’s fight against the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

The presentation ceremony was done at a special event held at the Fourah Bay College (FBC) campus of the university on Thursday, 18^th June, 2020.

By Umaru Fofana

One hundred and thirty six (136) Sierra Leoneans who were thrown out of Algeria and Libya after their failed bid to cross the Mediterranean to Europe are still stranded on the deserts of Niger. They say they feel abandoned by their government.