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
The Speaker of Parliament, Dr Abass Chernor Bundu on Wednesday, 4 May 4, 2022, appointed the leader of the National Grand Coalition (NGC) party, Hon Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella as chairman of the Select Committee in Parliament to undertake an academic audit on officials holding public offices across the country. The Parliamentary Select Committee, according to...Read More
Sierra Leone will open its 2023 AFCON Qualifiers with Nigeria in an empty stadium at the Moshood Abiola Stadium in Abuja in June this year. In a letter sent to the NFF, CAF confirmed that the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja to be used for the 2023 AFCON qualifier matchday 1 & 2. However, Fifa...Read More
The Court of Appeal has on Wednesday, May 4, 2022 rejected an application made by lawyers representing former President Ernest Bai Koroma for a stay of proceedings in the ongoing Commission of Inquiry (COI) appeals, and refer the question of presidential immunity to the Supreme Court for constitutional interpretation. The application was made by lead...Read More
Since the historic repeal of the Criminal and Seditious Libel Law in 2020, Sierra Leone has made commendable progress in freedom of the press, the President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) said in statement marking World Press Freedom Day on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Ahmed Sahid Nasralla said since the repeal of...Read More
THE MEDIA UNSHACLKED: A YEAR TO REFORM, REBUILD AND REBRAND THE MEDIA LANDSCAPE Society for Democratic Initiative (SDI) joins the world in celebrating World Press Freedom day. The theme for this year is “Journalism under digital siege”. SDI is also pleased to launch the “2021 State of the Media Report: The Media Unshackled; A year...Read More
Kingho Mining Company Limited has during the public disclosure of an addendum to its current Environmental and Social, Health Impact Assessment (ESHIA) for the construction of a Tailings Beneficiation Plant at the Tonkolili Iron Ore Mines, got an absolute approval from stakeholders of the mining concessions chiefdoms of Sambaia, Simiria and Dansogoia.The meeting which took...Read More
the Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE was in The Hague, Netherlands on Thursday, April 28, where she had the honor of delivering the keynote address at the Draper Richards Kaplan (DRK) Foundation international retreat. DRK Foundation is a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early stage, high impact social enterprises. They believe that with early...Read More
The judge said prosecutors had failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Massaquoi committed the crimes of rape, ritual murder, torture and recruitment of child soldiers during the war. A court in Finland has acquitted Gibril Massaquoi, the former Revolutionary United Front commander in Sierra Leone, of all the charges in his year-long trial...Read More
