The National Sports Authority (NSA) on Thursday, June 20, 2024, brought together eighty sports stakeholders in an effort to institutionalise the National Sports Development Fund. The meeting, held at the City Hall View, aimed to tap from the invaluable contributions from individuals from 61 sporting organizations. Highlights to the draft statutory instrument relate to its...Read More
By J. H. Webster Clayeh Christopher Peters said the LDEA needs more support in fighting the illegal entry of drugs through the Sierra Leone border. Monrovia – Christopher Peters, the Officer-In-Charge of the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) says most of the illicit drugs that enter Liberia pass through the Sierra Leone border. By J.H. Webster...Read More
By Abubakarr Bah, Information Attaché, Saudi Arabia. Six Sierra Leoneans have died as a result of heat waves in the 2024 Hajj in the holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia, according to authorities in Makkah. The deputy Minister of Social Welfare, Alhaji Mohamed Haji-Kella, told this writer in an interview that five of the victims...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka Issa Sall, a foreign exchange businessman was on Friday, June 21, 2024 sent on remand by Magistrate Isata Selleu Tucker of Pademba Road court No3 for allegedly obtaining over US$10 from Mohamed Kajalee Sall on the pretext that he would facilitates his traveling to Australia. The accused was charged with three counts...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka The Director of Sierra Leone law school Doctor Abubakar Bangura has on Wednesday 19th June, 2024 before Magistrate Santigie Bangura confirmed in court that some persons who had been charged for soliciting to kill him had never confronted nor threatened to kill him by any physical means. He made this statement during...Read More
By Alusine Sesay President Dr Julius Maada Bio on Wednesday extended the timeline for the presentation of the Independent Cross-Party Committee on Electoral Systems and Management Bodies Review report, at a formal handing over ceremony of a joint statement by the Government of Sierra Leone and the All People’s Congress, APC. Sierra Leone’s Tripartite Committee,...Read More
Principal Secretary Medical Services, Harry Kimtai Wednesday welcomed a delegation from Sierra Leone which is on a study tour aimed at establishing an HIV/TB anti-stigma court. The delegation from Sierra Leone includes judiciary officials, parliamentary representatives, and technical experts, who are engaging in a comprehensive study tour from June 16 to June 23, 2024. PS...Read More
ASX-listed Sierra Rutile has suspended operations at a part of Area 1, Sierra Leone, to conduct a review into the death of a worker on site on Monday. Expressing the company’s condolences, MD and CEO Theuns de Bruyn said that it was a sad day for Sierra Rutile and its people. “We have launched an...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka Magistrate Santigie Bangura of Pademba road court No: 2 has on Wednesday 19th June 2024 remanded George Adams, former military personnel with force number 18172457, for allegedly participating in the November 26th failed coup. The accused George Adams made his first appearance in court and was arraigned on the charges of Treason,...Read More
The Executive of Sierra Leone National Paralympics Committee (SLE-NPC), members of the disable community and popular comedian, Timbo aka City Parrot today welcomed para-athletes back home in a grand style, after Arnold Sheka Kamara finished second in the powerlifting competition in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Polio Para-Powerlifter Arnold Sheka Kamara and one arm female Para-Table Tennis...Read More
