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By Kemo Cham

A High Court judge has slammed a temporary injunction on a mini convention of the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) slated for this weekend.

Members of the National Reformation Movement (NRM), a pressure seeking reforms within the party, filed for the injunction to halt to meeting scheduled to take place in Port Loko from January 10 to 12, citing constitutional breaches.

By Kemo Cham

The leadership of the women’s rights advocacy group, 50/50, has hailed President Julius Maada Bio for his stance on women and girls’ empowerment.

The group which paid a courtesy call on the President on Wednesday also praised the president’s policies aimed at protecting women and girls, according to a news dispatch from State House.

50/50 is a non-partisan organization which campaigns for increased political participation and equal representation of women in decision-making processes.

By Mohamed T. Massaquoi

The Sierra Leone government’s position on the single currency for West Africa remains uncertain until a regional meeting schedule for next week, according to a statement by the Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL) on Thursday.

By Hajaratu Kalokoh

Students of Limkokwing College have blasted the Sierra Leone Police over how they handled their protest on Tuesday. Students accused the Police of manhandling male and female students in the course of arresting them “unlawfully”.

On Tuesday students of the college converged at their Hill Station campus and marched in what seemed like a peaceful protest to the Ministry of Higher and Technical Education at New England Ville.

By Kemo Cham

The latest batch of presidential appoints have subscribed to the oath of office as the final step to assume their assignment in the ‘New Direction’ government.

A total of seven officials, including deputy ministers of Finance and Health and Sanitation, took the oath of office in front of President Julius Maada Bio at State House on Wednesday.

Also subscribing to the oath were new Commissioners of the Local Government Service Commission.

By Francis Murray

Organizers of the first ever prison beauty pageant in Sierra Leone have announced plans to roll out a mediation programme as part of efforts to integrate former inmates who were granted presidential clemency in honor of the New Year.

Three out of the over 500 convicts released on New Year’s eve participated in the Miss Correctional 2019, and one of them was the winner of the pageant.

The three girls are yet to return home since their release.

By Newman Anthony Levey in Bo

The Driver’s Union in Bo is in a standoff with the Resident Minister of the Southern Region, Mohamed E.K Ali. The Secretary General of the union, Moses Sandi, accused the minister of undermining the current executive by working with the former president of the union, Abu Saidu (Abu White).

The standoff reached a new height when the union vowed this week that drivers will not take part in future general cleaning exercise as a sign of protest.