The Legal Aid Board has handed-over four Honda XL 125 motorbikes (one each) to its Paralegals in the Western Rural, Tonkolili, Karene and Falaba Districts at a short ceremony at the head office in Freetown on Monday September 28, 2020. The motorbikes are part of a UNICEF-funded project geared towards promoting access to justice for children in contact with the law. These are the third sets of bikes to the...Read More
Justice Abdul Rahman Mansaray has sentenced a man to death for sexually penetrating a four-year-old girl and triangulating her to death. Initially on September 28, 2020, the Jury in the matter had returned a unanimous verdict of guilty on Ransford Nicol, the convict in the matter, who had initially been accused of murder and sexually penetrating the four-year-old child. The crime took place at Dembellia Sinkunia Chiefdom in the Northern...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission has in a press statement said that, in a 2020 Afro-Barometer Round 8 Survey Report, presented to the Government of Sierra Leone in Freetown on September 28, 2020, by the Institute for Governance Reform (IGR), establishes that, Corruption prevalence in the country has declined from as high as 70% in 2015 to a new lowest ever of 40% in 2020. According to the ACC, a decline...Read More
The Director-General of the National Telecommunications Commission (NATCOM), Daniel Bobson Kaitibi, has outlined the achievements the institution has made within a record time of six months. He stated that all the outstanding achievements made, within the six-month period, would not have been made possible without the support and cooperation of his deputy, the Ministry of Information and Communications, Board of Commissioners and other members of staff. “The achievements we have...Read More
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Freetong players, Tutie Haffner commonly known as Master 2T has on Monday September 26, 2020 said that the outbreak of the Coronavirus in Sierra Leone has limited the groups performances and the earnings of it artists. He said this has put the survival of the artists in peril. Freetong Players is a renowned performing arts group in Sierra Leone which was established in 1995....Read More
