By George M.O. Williams Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio on Thursday, September 8, 2022, launched a five-year Education Sector Plan for Sierra Leone (2022-2026) at the Bintumani International Conference Centre in Freetown. The launching which was themed: “Transforming Learning for All”, brought together development partners, local actors in the educational sector and students across the Country. President Bio said that the process of developing the education sector plan...Read More
A new report has found that over 400 women from Sierra Leone working as domestic workers in Oman were victims of human trafficking. The report published today by Do Bold, a non-profit that promotes the rights of migrant workers, reveals systemic and widespread abusive practices against these women including forced labour. Many experienced deceptive recruitment, long working hours, restriction of movement and discrimination. Around one third of them suffered sexual...Read More
Ms. Zara Ahmed Kargbo, a resident of No. 4 Nurse Horton Drive, Brookfields in Freetown, who is also a fashion designer has been dragged to court by her business partners; Tenneh, Ruth and Martha on a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Zara Ahmed Kargbo is before Magistrate Santigie Bangura of Pademba Road Court No.3 on a private criminal summon filed by Halloway and Partners for and on behalf...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka Haroun Conteh, a driver and businessman, was on Thursday, September 8, 2022 sent to jail by Magistrate Santigie Bangura of Pademba Road Court No3 for allegedly causing grievious bodily harm to one Moses Kamara. The accused was arraigned on three counts of wounding with intent. According to the charge on count one the accused Haroun Conteh, alias Wannie, on Monday, September 5, 2022, along Lumley Beach Road,...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh Sierra Leone’s Supreme Court Judge who doubles as the President of Judicial and Legal Training Institute, Honourable Justice Emmanuel Ekundayo Roberts was on the 7th of September, 2022 elected Vice President of the West African Region of Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges’ Association. It should be noted that in the past Sierra Leone could not even contest or present a candidate because the Judiciary was not fully paid...Read More
