Only one in four students attended pre-primary school before starting primary school, according to the National Early Grade Reading Assessment reportwhich was produced by the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE). The assessment was conducted among 476 teachers, 244 head teachers and 4,729 students of which 50 percent were girls,from 260 schools from across all the 16 districts with the aim to understand the systemic issues that affects...Read More

The Legal Aid Board (LAB) on Monday January 31, 2022 secured the discharge of 16 inmatesfrom various High Courts around the country during the first day of the Judicial Week. Of the 16, three were discharged by Honourable Justice Monfred Sesay JA; five by Justice Ivan Sesay JA; one by Justice Jamestina King JA, four by Justice Momo-Jah Stevens JA; one by Justice Komba Kamanda JA,and two by Justice Albert...Read More

 Six Judges of the Superior Court of Judicature presiding over cases in Freetown in the ongoing Judicial Week have discharged 47 inmates who have been incarcerated for various offences. Court of Appeal Judges, Hon. Justices Jamesina King, Alhaji Momoh-Jah Stevens, Komba Kamanda, Monfred Sesay, Ansumana Ivan Sesay and High Court Judge, Hon. Justice Adrian J. Fisher are among the 26 Judges deployed by the Honorable Chief Justice, His Lordship Justice...Read More

The National Advisory Committee (NAC) of the All People Congress Party (APC) has said in a press statement on Tuesday, February 2, 2022,that it has unanimously agreed that the APC party would abide by the recommendations of the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC). The PPRC Directives were accepted at an expanded NAC meeting on Tuesday to deliberate and proffer solution on the PPRC ruling on January 28, 2022,which focused on...Read More

High Court Judge presiding over cases in the ongoing Judicial Week, Honourable Justice Manuela Harding has discharged 19-year-old labourer, Mohamed Sow and Mamoud Mansaray for want of prosecution. Sow was before the court on a count indictment of robbery with aggravation contrary to Section 23 (1) (a) of the Larceny Act of 1916 as repealed and replaced by section 2 of the Act No. 16 of 1971. It was alleged...Read More