By Septimus Senessie
In the afternoon of last week Friday there was chaos at the central business area in Koidu Town between commercial motorbike riders and police officers.
It left one of the motorbike riders suffering a bullet wound on the foot, the back windshield of the car of the Local Unit Commander of the Tankoro Police Division, Chief Superintendent David Sahid Koroma, broken and the police station attacked.
By Mohamed T Massaquoi
Commercial motor drivers and traders including other road users in the Pujehun district, southern Sierra Leone, have expressed dissatisfaction over the 16 kilometer Pujehun and Bandajuma road construction.
They described as deplorable the Pujehun and Bo highway project being implemented by the First Tricon Company, commonly known as T-Mark, along the Pujehun and Bo highway.
By Mustapha Sesay
A group of Dutch investors on Tuesday signed several MoUs with officials of the government of Sierra Leone and some local companies aimed at fostering economic ties between the Netherlands and Sierra Leone.
The signings were done during a one day Round Table Economic Growth and Private Sector Development conference held at the Radisson Blu hotel in Aberdeen.
By Mustapha Sesay
The director of the Sierra Leone Legal Aid Board (LAB) Claire Carton Hancile has promised free legal aid to the less privileged and disadvantage persons in the country.
Mrs Hancile said Wednesday in parliament that they would ensure that all those who needed legal assistance get it as part of the mandate of the board. She was addressing the Legislative Committee with a Power Point presentation ahead of the planned commencement of their operations.
Over One hundred teenage girls from the 14 Administrative Districts of Sierra Leone have called on Government to develop a National Girls Empowerment Policy to protect teenage girls from sexual harassment, early marriage, teenage pregnancy, rape, among other societal exploitations.
These recommendations came out of a recently concluded National Girls Empowerment Forum which ended Monday 29th June.
It was organized by the Kids Advocacy Network (KAN) with support from World Bank and the One Family People organization.
Former military head of state of Sierra Leone under the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC) has broken his silence on the late Col. Yayah Kanu and others and the executions that followed in, ruling out regrets.,
Former head of state Captain Valentine Strasser has denied that he was ever deported from the United Kingdom where he spent part of his life studying after the countercoup that ousted him.
Strasser ruled Sierra Leone up to 1996 after seizing power in 1992. He became the world’s youngest head of state at the time.
After his nearly four year rule, he relocated to the UK where he underwent studies. But he faced difficulties there, all of which he blamed on negative press. He also was even attacked and an attempt was made on his life.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
