The first phase of the ongoing installation of fiber optic cable under the Economic Community of West African States Regional Backbone Infrastructure and e-Governance Programme (ECOWAN) took a major leap in Sierra Leone last Friday with the blowing of the first cable into the pipe.
The process is technically called cable jetting and it is basically the installation of the cables in the ducts in the pipes leading to the intended destination.
By Mustapha Sesay
Magistrate Binneh Kamara of Ross Road Court no. 1 in Freetown says he will commit to high court a case against 13 people accused of committing murder at Waterloo last September.
Magistrate Kamara said Tuesday that he lacked the jurisdictional power to grant the accused persons bail or discharge and acquit them.
The magistrate however urged the prosecution team to bring in more witnesses to prove their case, as “the liberties of thirteen citizens were at stake.”
Sierra Leones’s High Commissioner to The Gambia, Soulayman Daramy, has delivered a special letter from President Ernest Bai Koroma to the leader of The Gambia Yayah Jammeh at State House in Banjul in which Koroma strongly condemned the December 30th 2014 attack on that country's presidential palace.
In the letter, Koroma praised Jammeh's “transformative achievement over the years that have put The Gambia on the map.”
By Crispina Taylor
Member of Parliament for constituency 067 in Bo, Sualiho Koroma, has said in parliament that Sierra Leone’s former minister of Health and Sanitation, Miatta Kargbo, should apologize to the nation for failing to professionally handle the Ebola crisis when it initially broke out in the country.
By Mustapha Kamara jnr
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority, Reverend Michael Samura, has revealed that the authority was planning to take legal actions against the country’s Chief Immigration Officer, Kholifa Koroma, for allegedly violating the human rights of a traffic Warden attached to the authority.
By Bampia James Bundu
Executive Director, Heal Sierra Leone, Joseph Sannoh, has threatened to drag the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) to court over allegations of breach of contract. The organization is seeking Le 1 Billion in damages which it believes it was deprived of by the action of the national broadcaster.
By Bampia James Bundu
Education for All Sierra Leone, (EFA-SL), a local civil society coalition, has engaged coalition members across the country to develop post Ebola education strategies for the benefit of the entire country.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
