Around 37 to 39 women including one female Paramount chief MP will make up 25 to 26% of the next 149 Members of Parliament (MPs) and of that about 60% of the women are predicted to be from the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) according to SierraPoll survey done by the Institute of Governance Reform (IGR). This edition of SierraPoll combines survey data of 2,448 respondents of which 19 were...Read More
Blama Town, Kenema District, Thursday 1 June 2023 – Voters and residents of Blama Town in the Small Bo Chiefdom, Kenema District in the eastern region of Sierra Leone, have expressed their unconditional willingness to vote for the Presidential candidate of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party, SLPP, Julius Maada Bio, in the 24 June elections. During a well-attended chiefdom engagement at the Ahmadiyya Secondary School Field, the flagbearer, who...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) in collaboration with the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), on Friday, June 2, 2023, concluded a two-day media literacy for Youth Advocates and Journalists at the Bintumani Hotel in Freetown. The training was funding by the European Union, The training which comes ahead of June 24 elections is geared towards promoting information Integrity in the...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh Detective Superintendent Patricia Koroma, attached to the Criminal Investigation Department at Aberdeen Police Station, has on Friday, June 2, 2023 led evidence in the ongoing case involving a teacher who was allegedly murdered by a pupil.Detective Koroma took to the witness stand and recognized the accused person, a 17-year-old pupil, for allegedly killing Mr. Edward Ola Johnson. He recalled that on March 11, 2023 at around 3:...Read More
Ahead of the June 24 election, a rematch of the 2018 vote, familiar issues of identity and economic stagnation are also competing on the ballot. By Jamie Hitchen Freetown, Sierra Leone – On April 23, President Julius Maada Bio and Kandeh Yumkella danced together at a public function in Freetown, the Sierra Leonean capital, effectively signalling the start of the 2023 election season in the West African state. The occasion was the...Read More
