The Sierra Leone Roads Authority (SLRA) on Friday awarded a contract for the rehabilitation of the Tikonko-Kpetema-Mattru Jong Road to a Ghanaian Company, Maripoma Enterprises following a signing of the contract between Government of Sierra Leone represented by SLRA and the Company in Freetown. The 42. 5 kilometer stretch of road will cost US$25 million...Read More
Members of the United Polio Brothers and Sisters Inclusive Training Centre, a group of physically challenged persons working in a skills training centre in the east of Freetown have on Sunday May 1, 2022, appealed to Non-Governmental Organizations, the Government of Sierra Leone and other humanitarians for skills training equipment to aid their work in...Read More
Freetown, Sierra Leone, 6th May, 2022: The attention of the Judiciary’s Communications Department has been drawn to a letter dated 31st March 2020, addressed to Wara Serry Kamal Esq, titled “Whether Mr Adrian Joscelyne Fisher is licensed and has been admitted to practice law in Sierra Leone.” The third paragraph of the said letter states...Read More
The Mayor of Fano, Local Councils authorities in Sierra Leone have visited the Head of the European Delegation in Sierra Leone and held discussion on the Project titled: “Partnership of Sustainable cities in Sub-Sahara Africa”. The dialogue brought together local actors and the visiting team at the Ambassador’s Office at Leicester Peak on Thursday. The...Read More
The Prevention Department of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has presented a Report titled ‘Monitoring for Compliance on Budgetary Allocation and Utilization in Local Councils’ to the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and Local Councils. The presentation of the Report took place on Tuesday 3rd April, 2022 at the Conference Room of the Western...Read More
AdvocAid has filed a case at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) court of justice in Abuja, Nigeria, against the Government of Sierra Leone, seeking to overturn the country’s discriminatory loitering laws. The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) and Sierra Leonean lawyer, Eleanor Thompson, are legal representatives of the...Read More
The Intervarsity Sports, which has not been in existence for over 14 years, has once again been resuscitated through the leadership of Prof. Alpha Tejan Wurie, Minister of Technical and Higher Education. The essence of the whole exercise is to bolster friendliness among students of tertiary institutions. The athletics competition, which occurred on 28th and...Read More
President Dr Julius Maada Bio has joined colleague employees in the country to commemorate May Day or International Labour Day, urging workers in Sierra Leone to ensure fairness at their different workplaces. Secretary General of the Sierra Leone Labour Congress, Max Conteh, thanked the President for gracing the occasion and all workers and affiliate unions...Read More
Magistrate Sahr Kekura presiding the Pademba Road Court No. 1 on Wednesday May 4, 2022 committed the matter between the State versus Alfred Mohamed Bangura to the High Court for trial. Police alleged that the accused, Bangura, on Friday, December 20, 2019, at New Road, Rokupa in Freetown, fraudulently converted to his own use and...Read More
After the prosecuting counsel replied to a no-case submission filed by the defense, in a preliminary investigation into the alleged murder of a student at the University of Makeni (UNIMAK), Magistrate Sahr Kekura presiding the Pademba Road Court No. I on Wednesday committed the matter to the High Court for proper trial. According to the...Read More
