Tengbeh Town murder: Police tenders 7 empty bullet shells, 2 live rounds
October 13, 2016 By Hassan Gbassay Koroma Exhibit Officer, Detective Police Constable 1989 Samuel Mansaray, attached to the Criminal Investigations Department headquarters in Freetown, yesterday...
View ArticleMinistry of Trade: Le7bn project in limbo
October 13, 2016 By Joseph S. Margai The construction of a market in Wellington, a neighbourhood east of Freetown, that is being undertaken by the Ministry of Trade and Industry has stalled, with...
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Deterioration in the quality of compliance with Procurement Act - - Auditor...
- Auditor General’s Report highlights possible fraud and corruption October 13, 2016 By Ibrahim Tarawallie Auditor General, Lara Taylor-Pearce…Good job A special report by the Audit Service Sierra...
View ArticleSLPP calls on donors to stop supporting Civil Registration Authority
October 13, 2016 By Joseph S. Margai The main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has called on the international community and donor partners to stop providing support to the National Civil...
View ArticleNanjing International Youth Sport tournament: China edge Team Sierra Leone
October 13, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr. Team Sierra Leone finished second behind host China at the Nanjing International Youth Sport and Culture Week organised in China. The Sierra Leone team, which had a...
View ArticleCricket: Mercury International boost T20 league
October 13, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr. Sierra Leone’s leading sports betting company, Mercury International , Wednesday presented a cheque of Le50 million to the Sierra Leone Cricket Association (SLCA) as...
View ArticleWorld Amputee Football Federation certifies peace tournament
October 13, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr. The World Amputee Football Federation (WAFF) has reportedly sanctioned the forthcoming three-day Amputee football tournament to promote peace ahead of Ghana’s...
View ArticlePresident Koroma’s commitments to Youth questioned, two months after Kabala...
October 13, 2016 By Mohamed Massaquoi Prior to the 2007 elections, many artists, community and religious leaders, and the country’s political class were concerned that the general elections would be...
View ArticleDancing on a roulette wheel as future problems germinate before our eyes
October 14, 2016 By: Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon (awogordon@yahoo.co.uk) I came back from a West African tour to the increasing discourse about the national economic realities; as our hustlers’...
View Article‘My father taught us to hold on to principles’ - daughter eulogises late...
daughter eulogises late Justice Tolla Thompson October 14, 2016 By Regina Pratt The remains of late Justice Tolla-Thompson lying on a catafalque While paying tribute to his late father at the Miatta...
View ArticleLegal Aid Board Director praised peaceful nature of launch in Bo
October 14, 2016 Executive Director of the Legal Aid Board, Mrs. Fatmata Claire Carlton-Hanciles, has praised the people of Bo city for coming out in their thousands to grace the launch of their office...
View ArticleMaada Bio wants Africa Confidential to retract ‘defamatory publication’
October 14, 2016 By Joseph S. Margai The Media and Communications Team for Retired Brigadier Julius Maada Bio has in a letter dated 12th October, 2016 requested the editor of the Africa Confidential to...
View ArticleStudents lose interest in science because it is mystified - Gbamanja
Gbamanja October 14, 2016 By Joseph S. Margai The founder of Thomas Gbamanja Science Foundation Sierra Leone, Prof. Sahr P. Thomas Gbamanja, who also doubles as Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor of Fourah...
View Article‘Climate change is a fundamental threat to food security’ - -FAO
-FAO October 17, 2016 By Patrick Jaiah Kamara While addressing the press on this year’s World Food Day, Country Representative of the Food and Agricultural Organization, Madam Nyabenyi Tipo observed...
View Article‘Psychosocial support crucial for vulnerable children’ - - Deputy Children’s...
- Deputy Children’s Director October 17, 2016 By Joseph S. Margai Deputy Director of Children’s Affairs in the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs (MSWGCA), Mrs. Joyce Kamara,...
View ArticleDefense Ministry ignores procurement process
October 17, 2016 By Ibrahim Tarawallie A recent report by Audit Service Sierra Leone has revealed that the most responsive bidder in the National Competitive Bidding process for the procurement of...
View Article$ 45m financing agreement ratified
October 17, 2016 By Jariatu S. Bangura Members of Parliament have on Thursday ratified two financing agreements worth forty-five million United States Dollars meant to address both regional health...
View ArticleTwo sisters remanded for child theft at PCMH
October 17, 2016 By Hassan Gbassay Koroma The Associate Magistrate at the Freetown Magistrates’ Court No.1, Lyndonette Macauley on Thursday remanded two sisters at the Female Correctional Centre on...
View ArticlePolice remanded for sodomy
October 17, 2016 By Hawa Amara One Michael Jackson, a police officer attached to the Wilberforce police post was on Thursday remanded at the Male Correctional Centre on Pademba Road for an alleged...
View ArticleSix gangs remanded for Mountain Cut murder
October 17, 2016 By Patrick Jaiah Kamara Six suspected gangs have been remanded at the Male Correctional Centre on Pademba Road in Freetown after they appeared before Magistrate Dr. Abu Bakarr...
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