The Sierra Leone Football Association has in a letter dated October 19, 2020 informed Kambui Eagles Football Club that it would not participate in the 2020/21 CAF Champions League owing to its nonfulfillment of CAF’s Club License requirement. SLFA in the letter stated that, “we regret to inform you that your club has not met the conditions precedent to be issued with a Club License.As such, your intention to participate...Read More
Residents of Freetown municipality have in an interview conducted on Sunday, October 25, 2020, expressed dissatisfaction over the inconsistent power supply distributed by the Electricity Distribution Supply Authority (EDSA), the country’s main electricity distribution agency. According to residents, power cuts have been constant in some communities and frequent in others. They complained that it deters livelihoods of thousands of people across the city, especially business owners who require electricity supply...Read More
The Bonthe Water Supply Project is currently in high gear with the construction of a Manager’s quarters, store, and workshop, molding of blocks for a perimeter fence, digging of a trench for laying pipes currently ongoing. Actual work on the project commenced merely three months after signing of an agreement on the Bonthe Water Supply Project, which is aimed at restoring pipe born water to the Island after decades. The...Read More
Hon. Justice Abdul Rahman Mansaray has sentenced 69-year-old, Mohamed Jinnah Moriba to five years in prison for sexually touching a 12-year-old girl in Kenema district. The accused had been charged for sexual touching contrary to section 20(1) (a) of the Sexual Offences Act 2012 Act No. 12 of 2020. The case for the prosecution is that the accused touched the 12-year-old child in a sexual manner on May 12, 2020...Read More
Rugiatu Jalloh, 22, of No. 22 Nyeyama Road, Daru in Jawe Chiefdom in Kailahun District will spend two years in prison. Justice Abdul Rahman Mansaray found her guilty of fraudulent conversation contrary to section 20(1)(IV) (a) of the Larceny Act 1916. The prosecution in this matter had given evidence that on December 1, 2019 at Tonkolili District in the Northern Province of the Republic of Sierra Leone, she dishonestly dealt...Read More