By Fatima Kpaka Rosaline Ya-Alimany Bangura, the wife of Kabba Santigie Bangura, a former lecturer at Fourah Bay College whose lifeless-body was found in the custody of one Ibrahim Kalokoh, a herbalist, after being missing for 9 days, has testified before Magistrate Mark Ngegba that she called her husband on Monday the 6th of March after noticing that he had unusually not returned home, but his phone rung endlessly for...Read More
By Desmond Tunde Coker The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) with support from the European Union through International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) on Monday June 5,2023, launched its media manifesto ahead of the June 24 elections in Sierra Leone. Titled: ‘The Media We Want’, the manifesto is a catalogue of realistic, achievable and time-bound actions and strategies to advance media freedom, media professionalism, viability,...Read More
By Ibrahim S.Bangura Magistrate Wilbri H.M. John, together with her siblings and her mother, has recently organized a Spelling competition at the Standard Nursery and Preparatory School Complex in the West of Freetown. The aim of organizing the competition was to motivate children to be educated. Six schools, including Standard Nursery and Preparatory School, participated in the competition. Some others are Bavia Preparatory School, Triumphant Elementary Preparatory School, etc. For...Read More
Sierra Leone’s Chief Justice of the Republic of Sierra Leone, His Lordship Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards has assured the Carter Center Observation Mission to Sierra Leone that the Judiciary is prepared to expeditiously handle election offences and petitions when they come up during the electoral cycle. “We’re going to handle these elections with the promptness they deserve, and I assure you that everybody is ready to do a good and...Read More
Recently, China Railway No.10 Engineering Group Africa Company and Leone Rock Metals Group signed the EPC general contract for the construction of the second phase of the 12 million mt/year beneficiation plant of the Tonkolili iron ore mine in Sierra Leone and the second phase of the iron ore mining project contract, with a total contract value of $520 million. The Tonkolili iron ore mine is in the Tonkolili mining...Read More
