Journalists across the country on Tuesday celebrated the launch of the SLAJ Golden Jubilee Journalism Welfare Fund (JWF) in Freetown. Studies have shown that 9 out of 10 journalists are considered to be poor. The aim of the welfare fund is to provide financial assistance for journalists that are members of SLAJ basically those who...Read More

Monrovia, Liberia, Monday 14 February 2022 –His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has been welcomed by His Excellency President George Weah in Monrovia, Liberia, for the formal launch today 14 February 2022 of the year-long commemoration of the country’s bicentennial anniversary. He joined other colleague Heads of State and Government and other leaders from...Read More

Court of Appeal Judge presiding over cases at the Sexual Offences Model Court in Freetown, Honourable Justice Alhaji Momoh-Jah Stevens (JA) has sentenced 30-year-old Driver, Adams Conteh to 15 years in prison for sexually penetrating 12-year-old Agnes Bovi (not her real name). Conteh was before the court on a one count indictment of sexual penetration...Read More

The general secretary of the Sierra Leone Football Association Christopher Kamara has been suspended by the Ethics Board on allegation of breach of provisions of the ethic code and regulations. A press release issued by the Ethics Board states,“I have been instructed by the Ethics Board to write on the aforementioned subject to which you...Read More

Alicious DeenTarawally alias Arata Paopa has been arraigned before Magistrate Marke Ngegba of Pademba Road Court No 2 on three count charges of carrying offensive weapon, disorderly behavior and throwing missiles contrary to law. It is alleged on the charge sheet that on February 19, 2022, at Aberdeen Police Station the accused was found with...Read More

The circumstances that led to the sudden death of Saidy Saio Jawara, 34, continue to put his bereaved family in great shock and fear. It all started on one fateful day when the now deceased disclosed to his mother Madam Hawa Jawara that, “Mother, my friends have succeeded in killing me. It’s like I have...Read More

The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) with support from the Petroleum Regulatory Agency (PRA), over the weekend conducted a pilot risk assessment and hazard profiling of four fuel stations (Leonco – Congo Cross, Total – Bus Halt, NP – Siaka Stevens Street and Malador – Dwazark Junction) in Freetown. The risk assessment is designed to...Read More

Matagelema, Sierra Leone – Not long after daybreak in Matagelema, a village in the south of Sierra Leone’s Moyamba District, a jubilant chorus rings out from a stretch of a once-neglected swamp surrounded by tropical forest. “When we are ploughing, people are getting jealous,” dozens of women farmers sing gleefully, ankle-deep in mud in a sprawling...Read More

President Dr Julius Maada Bio on Saturday February 12, 2022, paid tribute to the late Paramount Chief Member of Parliament, Sahr Fengai Korgbende Kaimachainde III, saying the death of the influential traditional leader is a big loss to the Kono people and the nation. The late Paramount Chief, who was born on 24 November 1936...Read More

Clifford Amiru Dumbuya, 49, and Christiana Gladys Roberts, 38, were yesterday refused bail by Magistrate SahrKekura of Court No 1 after the accused were arraigned on allegation of wounding Roland Lansana Robert, the husband of the second accused. The accused persons were arraigned on six counts including causing grievous bodily harm, wounding with intent, assault...Read More