A farm land under cultivation by Socfin Agricultural Company in Malen Chiefdom, southern Sierra Leone
By Mustapha Sesay
Mandatory Ebola swabbing ends
By Kemo Cham
The Ministry of Health has announced the end of mandatory swabbing of all dead bodies, a policy introduced at the height of the Ebola epidemic.
The announcement on Tuesday marked the end of about eight months of intense surveillance since Sierra Leone was first declared free of the Ebola virus transmission by the World Health Organization (WHO) on November 17, 2015.
11 suspects arrested in Nigeria over Sierra Leone diplomat abduction
Nigerian police have arrested eleven people suspected of involvement in the kidnapping of Sierra Leone’s Deputy High Commissioner, reports from Abuja indicated on Tuesday.
The suspects were presented to the public on Tuesday, reported the daily Punch newspaper in Abuja.
Maj-Gen. Alfred Claude Nelson-Williams was kidnapped on July 1 and he was released five days after in a rather surprise development. On Monday the former head of the Sierra Leone Army was officially presented to President Ernest Bai Koroma at State House.
19 sentenced for traffic offences in Kenema
By Prince Musa in Kenema
Nineteen people in Kenema District were sentenced yesterday by Magistrate Alhaji Sulaiman Koroma for various traffic offences. They included drivers, commercial and private motorbike riders and passengers.
The charges ranged from riding without a protective headgear or crash helmet, a seatbelt or a license.
All 19 pleaded guilty to the various charges and pleaded for mercy.
However Magistrate Koroma decided to sentence them to three months in prison or pay a fine ranging from Le 200,000 to Le 600,000.
Woman adopted from Sierra Leone alleges trafficking
Adama kamara
By Umaru Fofana
A woman who was adopted in 1998 as a three year-old girl says she was “trafficked” and “sold” for $ 17,000 to her adoptive parents in the United States.
Sierra Leone Gov’t fails to meet lecturers’ demands
By Mabinty M Kamara
The standoff between aggrieved polytechnic lecturers and the Ministry of Education over conditions of service has continued is set to continue after government has failed to meet the lecturers’ demand.
The strike action by the lecturers has gone into its fourth week.
The aggrieved lecturers of polytechnic institutes and colleges are vowing not to reverse their industrial action until their demands are met as promised by the public relations officer (PRO) of the Education Ministry at the start of the strike action.
Sierra Leone cookery seller killed over Le 2,000
By Prince Musa in Kenema
A cookery seller in Kenema, Zainab Kamara died yesterday after a customer allegedly hit her with a stick as she tried to stop him from escaping after he had failed to pay her Le 2,000 (less than 30 US cents) being the cost of the food.
Police have arrested a suspect.
According to the police spokesman in Kenema, Constable Brima James Musa, Zainab was selling at her shop at the Cow Yard section when the suspect, Umaru Vandy Gbao showed up and asked to be served.
