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By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema

The coordinator of the District Emergency Ebola Response team in Bo, Sahr Foyor, has made allegations of fraud and incorrectness in the payment of Ebola risk allowances to emergency health workers in Bo.

He said a lot was wrong in the payment of health workers, adding that he was presently working with other stakeholders to get to the root of the problem.

By Bampia James Bundu

Sierra Leone’s telecoms regulatory body, NATCOM, has within two weeks recovered Le9Billion from telecoms operators and internet service providers registered with the commission.

This was revealed by NATCOM’s Director General, Mohamed Bangura, at a meeting held in Freetown to welcome the commission’s newly approved Chairman, Momoh Konte. Bangura explained that over the years they had been finding it difficult to collect dues from telecoms operators across the country due to some undue delays by the companies.

By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema

The website manager in the community relations directorate of the Sierra Leone Police Force has disclosed that the proposed Sierra Leone International Law Enforcement Academy would be fully functional in October.

By Mustapha Sesay

The minister of Agriculture in Sierra Leone, Dr. Sam Sesay, has promised incentives to farmers so as to increase production after Ebola as a way of making up for the losses incurred by the agriculture sector during the Ebola epidemic.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

There is apparent delay in the matter at the Sierra Leone court martial which is trying 13 soldiers for alleged mutiny, as the lead state prosecutor fails to appear for the second consecutive time on grounds of ill health.

By Jenneh Braima

The Independent Media Commission has condemned a controversial publication by the Independent Observer newspaper in its February 6 2015 edition attacking Dr. Sylvia Blyden, proprietor of the Awareness Times newspaper.

The Independent Observer`s managing editor, Jonathan Leigh, was reprimanded for alleging that Blyden, who recently served as Special Executive Assistant to President Ernest Bai Koroma, was involved in a sexual relationship with US-based Reverend Kabbs Kanu, Sierra Leone`s representative to the United Nations.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

Executive Director, Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL), Ibrahim Tommy, has expressed hope that the newly approved Acting Chief Justice of Sierra Leone would make significant changes in the country’s judiciary as there were presently significant challenges facing the sector.