By Alimatu Jalloh The Judiciary of Sierra Leone has, in a statement it put out on Friday, informed the general public that the Special High Court Criminal Sessions will be held for the first time in Segbwema Town, Kailahun District with 14 cases and Kambia Town, Kambia District with 24 cases from the 7th to the 15th November 2022. To achieve this, the Chief Justice has assigned the Resident...Read More
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) is assisting its counterpart in Sierra Leone, the Petroleum Regulatory Agency (PRA), to improve efficiency in regulating the petroleum downstream in that country. A team led by its Executive Chairman, Dr. Brima Baluwa Koroma said they were in Ghana to share and learn experiences in terms of structures, processes, policies and procedures in regulating the petroleum downstream sector. He was worried the private sector controlled...Read More
The Committee on Gender and Children’s Affairs in the Parliament of Sierra Leone chaired by Hon. Catherine Zainab Tarawally, has on Monday, October 31, 2022 concluded an oversight inspection on the Rainbow Centres in Pujehun, Kenema and Kailahun Districts respectively. The One Stop and Rainbow Centres were established in some Government Hospitals across the country to facilitate free medical support to victims of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) across the...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh Syril Harold Smith, a man who identified himself as an Investigative Journalist, was on Friday 4th November, 2022 arraigned and admitted to bail in the sum of NLe 200, 000 after he made his first appearance before Magistrate Mark Ngegbe of Pademba Road Court No.1 in Freetown on the crime of fraudulent conversion to the tune of Le 102,000,000. Defendant Syril Harold smith was in court for...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu Sierra Leone has again recorded very high score (79 percent) in the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) ‘Control of Corruption’ indicator, making it the fifth consecutive year the country recording huge progress in the MCC scorecard. Sierra Leone has consistently recorded outstanding scores in the MCC ‘Control of Corruption’ Scorecard, with 71 percent score in 2018, 79 percent in 2019, 81 percent in 2020, 83 percent in...Read More
