By Politico Staff Writer
President of Kono Students Union (KONSU) Kenziah Fears has expressed her commitment to ensuring that female students of the district are empowered not only through formal education but skills that could make them market-ready.
Fears in an interview with Politico said she intends to include skills training symposia in their summer school programme curriculum in a bid to empower more women.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
As a result of a rise in the number of stroke patients in the district, the management of Kenema Government Hospital with support from Kings Global Partnership has opened a modern stroke unit at the Kenema Government Hospital, east of Sierra Leone.
The stroke unit was officially opened to the public on the 23rd December 2023.
By Saio Marrah
Sierra Leone’s former President, Ernest Bai Koroma has appeared at a Magistrate court in Freetown on a four-count charge of treason, misprison of treason, and harboring alleged treason-related offenses.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in collaboration with pertinent stakeholders is investigating an online money-making platform named Super Advertis suspected of unlawful activities, an entity using various mobile money platforms in Sierra Leone to solicit deposits from the public under the guise of investments.
The platform is said to have defrauded Sierra Leoneans of over OLe 9000,000,000 (nine billion Old Leones).
By Politico Staff Writer
The Political Parties Regulation Commission (PPRC) in collaboration with the leadership of the Security Sector summoned a stakeholders meeting with all registered political parties and updated them on the progress of the November 26th failed coup investigations.
The meeting was held at the Conference Room of the Office of National Security (ONS), Tower Hill in Freetown on the 8th of January 2024.
By Saio Marrah
The First Accused in an ongoing trial for alleged corruption in connection to the renovation of Sierra Leone’s Chancery Building in New York, Saidu Nallo, has denied all corruption charges levied against him.
Nallo was responding to questions from his lawyer, Mohamed Pa-Momoh Fofanah in respect of the indictment levied against him, at the Law Court Building, Friday 5th January 2024.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
Latest data by the National Civil Registration Authority has indicated an addition to the female population in Sierra Leone out of a total of 235,373 (two hundred and thirty-five thousand, three hundred and seventy-three) live births for 2023.
Of that number 120,040 (one hundred and twenty thousand and forty) are females, accounting for 51% of the data, while the rest are males.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
