The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 announced the formation of a broad based committee named “The SLAJ Criminal Libel Repeal Advocacy Group” to lobby for the last lap in the process of repealing the Criminal and Seditious Libel laws contained in the Public Order Act of 1965. The formation...Read More
The European Union and the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has on Thursday June 18, 2020, launched a nationwide radio and television programme specifically aimed at addressing fake news and misinformation around COVID-19 circulating on social media and messaging platforms. The radio and TV show will be broadcast twice weekly on Wednesdays at 2:00pm and...Read More
President Julius Maada Bio has on Tuesday June 16, 2020, met with Resident Ministers, who doubled as COVID-19 Regional Coordinators, at State House and presented them with vehicles to ease their work in the fight against the Coronavirus. Chief Minister, Professor David Francis, who chaired the event, said that the move was part of the President’s...Read More
Minister of Health and Sanitation, Professor Alpha Wurie, while addressing health workers at the National Stadium last Tuesday, said government will recruit 3000 nurses by 2021 with a view to strengthening the health sector in the country. Professor Wurie made the statement at the opening ceremony of a recruitment process organized by the Health Service Commission...Read More
The Sierra Leone Police have arrested four people for an alleged case of murder of a five-year-old girl, Khadijah Madinatu Saccoh, whose autopsy report, lists manual strangulation (asphyial death), spinal cord injury, bitten tongue, vaginal and anal dilatation, finger nail excoriation, fracture of cervical vertebrae as the causes of her death. Mariatu Rashid, the Line Manager...Read More
