The Environment Protection Agency has on August 7, 2020, won a landmark case that was brought before Magistrate Santigie Bangura at the Magistrate Court No. 2 in the Southern city of Bo. In total, eleven individuals were arraigned before the Magistrate and all pleaded guilty to the charges under the Environment Protection Agency Act. The matter concerned illegal operations that have been ongoing within the city of Bo involving the...Read More
LAB Paralegal Mohamed Karama engages local court staff ofMomoria Section in BarawaWallay Chiefdom The Legal Aid Board secured the discharge of 15-year-old Gongofa Marah (not his real name)on the orders of the court on 3 August 2020. He was charged with manslaughter and assault occasioning actual bodily harm Gongofa, his mother Manteh and brother Kallie, were arrested in 2017. This follows the death of asixty-something year old man in a...Read More
Job Booster SierraLeone,a local agency which links job seekers with prospective employers,has on Friday August 14, 2020at REAPS Vocational Training Institute in Freetown launched new project titled “Salon Project” to help easesome of the effects of COVID-19 on young entrepreneurs in the job market in Sierra Leone. Team leader, MariamaKhai Fornah,said that the project dubbed“Job Booster” is being implemented by a consortium which constitutes three organizations: Evangelical Fellowship of Sierra...Read More
The Deputy Minister of Information and Communications, Madam Mamadi Gobeh Kamara, has urged stakeholders in Kenema District to embrace the Medium-Term National Development Plan as a roadmap towards transforming the district. She made this statement during a one-day stakeholders’ engagement on the Plan organised by the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development (MOPED) at Albsertson Hotel in Kenema on August 14, 2020. It will be recalled that the Sierra Leone...Read More
Harrison Wisdom, an eight-year-old Gospel musician in the east of Freetown, has on Sunday August 16, 2020 disclosed to Premier News that he has recently released a single titled ‘God Save Salone.’ The toddler said thatin the lightof previous and recent disasters, he believes prayer is the solution to Sierra Leone’s problems. “Sierra Leone has been going through hard times and very difficult times, starting with the Ebola outbreak, Mudslide...Read More
