By Fatima Kpaka The Legal Aid Board has secured the discharge of eighteen accused persons from separate High Court sittings across the country from 5th June to 12th July 2023. Four of the accused persons were discharged by Justice Sulaiman Bah in Freetown; three by Justice Cosmotina Jarrett in Freetown; five by Justice A.R Mansaray in Kabala; five by Justice Mohamed Bawoh in Magburaka and one was acquitted and discharged...Read More
By John Jeffay Newfield Resources has secured $50 million in provisional finance to bring its Tongo Diamond Mine in Sierra Leone to commercial production. The Australian miner says the deposit has an initial eight-year life with peak annual diamond production of 260,000 carats forecast in Year 5. Newfield said yesterday (10 July) that its subsidiary Sierra Diamonds Limited (SDL) had signed a conditional and non-binding terms sheet with the Africa...Read More
A rush of women candidates supported by new electoral laws face continuous challenges in their bid to hold office Sally Hayden in Freetown Marion Kamara stepped out of the black gates of her compound, high on a hill in the Devil Hole area southwest of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown. With friends and supporters behind her, she carefully made her way down the rocky and muddy slope towards the secondary school she...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker The Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) has on Tuesday, July 11, 2023 officially signs a contract with Edel Grass for the construction of four new artificial turf pitches at the Approved School, SLFA Academy, Port Loko Town Field, and Coronation Field in Bo, and also, to uplift the standard of Kono Field and Kenema Town Field. It could be recalled that the SLFA contractors have inspected...Read More
By George M.O Williams Anti-Corruption Commission Sierra Leone and Transparency International Sierra Leone Chapter Commemorate African Anti-Corruption Day on the theme ‘‘Fighting Corruption NOW for the Africa We want’’. July 11 is the African Anti-Corruption Day. On this day in 2003, the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption (AUCPCC) was adopted in Maputo, Mozambique which came into effect in 2006 and has since then been ratified by 48...Read More
