By Fatima Kpaka Principal Magistrate Mustapha Brima Jah of the Freetown Magistrate Court No.1 has on Monday, November 10, 2025, committed Abdul Kanu and Mohammed Abu Turay to the High Court for trial over allegations of wrongfully exposing the travel manifest of President Julius Maada Bio and his entourage to the United Kingdom. Charges The...Read More

By Fatima Kpaka Parliament on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, officially swore in Hon. Mohamed Shebora Bangura of Kambia District as a Member of Parliament, following the passing of the late Hon. Ernest Dura Koroma. Hon. Bangura will now represent the people of Tonko Limba in the Sixth Parliament of the Second Republic of Sierra Leone....Read More

By Fatima Kpaka KONO – Justice Santigie Ibrahim Sorie Bangura of the High Court in Kono has sentenced Shekuba Mansaray to 15 years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to sexually penetrating a 12-year-old girl. The ruling was delivered on Tuesday, November 11, 2025. Mansaray was tried on one count of sexual penetration of a child,...Read More

FREETOWN – The Legal Aid Board (LAB) has successfully secured the release of 19-year-old Haja Mariama Dauda, a lactating mother of a two-month-old child, from the Freetown High Court presided over by Honourable Justice M. Mgeba. Dauda was freed on Friday, November 7, 2025, on a caution and discharge basis following a plea-in-mitigation by Counsel...Read More

By George M.O. Williams The Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, has raised alarm over what she described as persistent intimidation and administrative interference within the Freetown City Council (FCC), allegedly orchestrated by the Chief Administrator (CA) with backing from the Ministry of Local Government. Speaking at a press briefing on Monday, November 10, 2025, Mayor...Read More

By George M.O. Williams The Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, has raised alarm over what she described as persistent intimidation and administrative interference within the Freetown City Council (FCC), allegedly orchestrated by the Chief Administrator (CA) with backing from the Ministry of Local Government. Speaking at a press briefing on Monday, November 10, 2025, Mayor...Read More