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By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Judge Advocate at the court Martial, which is currently trying 13 soldiers accused of mutiny, yesterday admitted new documentary evidence from the 1^st accused, Private Momoh Kargbo who testified earlier in his defence.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

Police in Pujehun have warned against the potential for violence in the Makpele chiefdom against the backdrop of tension emanating from a controversial investment scheme.

Makpele is in the eastern part of the district and it has been tethering on violence over an agreement involving a company called Natural Habitat, which is seeking to develop two plantations in Zimmi Makpele and Sorobiema chiefdoms, and the local authorities.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

Sierra Leone’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Frankly Bai Kargbo, has said that the Supreme Court was set to move its courtroom, together with the office of the Chief Justice, to the former Special Court premises after the Ebola crisis in the country.

This would be the second time that the AG is making the same promise, the first being when the Special Court officially closed and handed over the courthouse to the government in December 2013.

Four human rights organisations have called on President Ernest Bai Koroma to free eight people detained without charge on his orders since 24 October last year.

The two women and six men from Kono District were first detained at the Criminal Investigations Department in Freetown before they were taken to the maximum security prison.

By Mustapha Sesay

Following the enactment of a new minimum wage Act last year, which takes effect this month, thousands of Sierra Leoneans are bound to lose their jobs, employers have said.

A number of employers, among them security companies and domestic service providers who spoke to Politico, said they could not afford the new Le 500,000 minimum wage, but would have to lay off some of their staff.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Local Government Minister has said that she is “highly displeased and unhappy” with the fourteen paramount chiefs in the Kono district, south of Sierra Leone.

Finda Diana Konomayi-Kabbah was responding to grim reports on the Ebola situation in the district while addressing ten of the fourteen Paramount Chiefs in the district at a meeting she organised in Koidu town on the eve of the last visit by President Ernest Bai Koroma and his vice, Sam Sumana.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

The Academic Staff Association (ASA) at Njala University College has written a letter to the Minister of Education, Science and Technology indicating that they have not been paid December salary and other emoluments owed them by the college administration.