Run-Off Postponement: Judge refuses to grant ex-parte reliefs, adjourns to...
March 22, 2018 By Patrick Jaiah Kamara The High Court in Sierra Leone has set the date of hearing the originating notice of motion filed by one Ibrahim Sorie Koroma, a lawyer and a member of the ruling...
View ArticlePresidential run-off - NGC stays neutral
NGC stays neutral March 22, 2018 By Ibrahim Tarawallie The National Grand Coalition (NGC) has refused to give their backing to any of the two political parties in the presidential run-off election...
View ArticleNEC accuses police of intimidation
March 22, 2018 Inspector General of Police, Richard Moigbe The National Electoral Commission has in a statement issued yesterday accused the Sierra Leone Police of persistently intimidating their...
View ArticleFAO Commemorates International Forest Day
March 22, 2018 By Hassan Gbassay Koroma Participant from different local and international organizations The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) – a specialized agency of the United Nations –...
View ArticleBallot papers for runoff arrive today
March 22, 2018 Ishmael Sallieu Koroma Head of Media and External Relations, National Electoral Commission (NEC), Albert Massaquoi, yesterday told journalists that ballot papers for the run-off election...
View Article‘China’s Development Poses No Threat to Others’ - …President Xi Jinping eases...
…President Xi Jinping eases growing tensions of “super world power” March 22, 2018 By Joseph S. Margai in Beijing President Xi Jinping addressing lawmakers and other top officials during the closing of...
View ArticleAhead of presidential run-off… - APC, SLPP say they’re confident of winning
APC, SLPP say they’re confident of winning March 28, 2018 By Regina Pratt The Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Peoples Congress(APC), Cornelius Deveaux, has boasted that whether some section of...
View Article‘NGC stands out as the biggest victim of irregularities & malpractices’ -...
-says chairman March 28, 2018 By Ibrahim Tarawallie Chairman and Leader of the National Grand Coalition (NGC) has claimed that the party is the biggest victim of alleged irregularities and malpractices...
View ArticleNEC ‘ready’ for presidential run-off election
March 28, 2018 NEC staff prepare for crucial run-off on Saturday The National Electoral Commission (NEC) yesterday stated that they were ready to conduct the presidential run-off election slated for...
View ArticleNEC’s Supreme Court case adjourned till after run-off
March 29, 2018 By Patrick Jaiah Kamara The Supreme Court in Sierra Leone has adjourned until April 5 to continue hearing a case brought before it by the National Electoral Commission (NEC) for judicial...
View Article“The Bond between China and Africa is deep” - …says CPDA Vice President
…says CPDA Vice President March 28, 2018 By Joseph S. Margai in Beijing Vice President of China Public Diplomacy Association (CPDA) Hu Zhengyue Vice President (VP) of China Public Diplomacy Association...
View ArticlePlaintiff’s quest to discontinue KKY’s citizenship case ‘flawed’
March 29, 2018 By Regina Pratt Counsel for David Fornah, plaintiff in the matter involving Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella and six others, Lawyer Centus Macauley, has informed the apex court that he had...
View ArticleC4C will declare within 48hrs, says Scribe
March 29, 2018 By Yusufu S. Bangura Chief Alhaji Samuel Sam-Sumana, still undecided National Secretary General of Coalition for Change (C4C), Koigor Alicious Foh, has noted that the party would issue a...
View ArticleCampaign to take politics out of schools & universities
March 29, 2018 By Ibrahim Tarawallie Pikin Bizness has, in collaboration with Save Salone, commenced a campaign to kick political discussions out of schools and universities. According to Chairman of...
View ArticleADP Kamaraimba predicts APC Samura Kamara ‘win’
March 29, 2018 By Ishmael Sallieu Koroma Former Presidential Candidate of the Alliance Democratic Party (ADP), Mohamed Kamaraimba Mansaray, has predicted that the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC)...
View ArticlePeace Mothers play vital roles in Sierra Leone’s 2018 elections
March 29, 2018 By Solomon Yarjoh Fambul Tok Peace Mothers, equipped with communication skills and clear understanding of peaceful messages were able to convince community members to see reason not to...
View ArticleAPC goons Sanusi Bruski, Herbert Williams brutalise journalists
April 3, 2018 By Ishmael Sallieu Koroma Sanusi Bruski Kargbo: commander of a ragtag of thugs that brutalised journalists The disgraced former Mayor of Freetown Herbert George Williams was seen...
View ArticleSenior Military Men Plot to Assassinate Bio, Says SLPP Scribe
April 3, 2018 By Mohamed Massaquoi Bio: marked for assassination? The National Secretary-General of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) has named some senior ranking personnel of the...
View ArticleMaada Bio got 54. 11% in the runoff election - …says J.J. Saffa
…says J.J. Saffa April 3, 2018 By Mohamed Massaquoi J.J. Saffa spoke to the press at the Radisson Blu in Freetown Chairperson for the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) Election Management Committee,...
View ArticleConcord Times Election Observation Account - Voting in eastern Freetown...
Voting in eastern Freetown started peacefully April 3, 2018 By Ibrahim Tarawallie Voters queued to cast their vote in the run-off election Voting in the east of Freetown was relatively peaceful with...
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