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June 2021

A fifteen year old juvenile delinquent, Emmanuel Milton, was on Wednesday 23rd June found dead in his cell at the Remand Home, Kingtom. The cause of death has not been known, and can only be

Just as the raining season sets in, many residents of Freetown will today be rendered homeless and or deprived of their livelihood, as a combined team of the Ministry of Works and Public Assets, the

The World Bank has granted the sum of 50 Million Dollars to the Government of Sierra Leone to facilitate the Sierra Leone Integrated and Resilient Urban Mobility project. The disclosure was made by Umaru Katta, Project

Residents in the coastal communities of Murray Town and Aberdeen are in jeopardy of ceaseless blasting by fishermen indulged in the illegal activity of dynamite fishing. (Photo: Emma Kowa: Fishing Minister) The practice has life-threatening effects

Months after becoming Sierra Leone’s president in 2018, Julius Maada Bio scrapped a much-hyped international airport that his predecessor, Ernest Bai Koroma, had secured with funding from the Chinese government. The Mamamah International Airport would

MRS. BLYDEN'S FUNERAL IS WEDNESDAY 7TH JULY 2021 WITH BOOKS OF CONDOLENCE NOW OPEN IN LONDON & SIERRA LEONEThe late Mrs Sylvia Editha Jolliminah Blyden's books of condolence have been opened at the following two

In a desperate bid to battle the third wave of the Corona Virus, the Government has introduced stringent radical measures. The recent mandatory CIVID jab for all MDA staff- and visitors, customers, clients and service

Sierra Leone hip-hop godfather Yusuf Osio Kamara stage name YOK-7 (Your Obelus Kaleidoscope ). Born and raised in the East end of Freetown. According to a reliable source reaching this medium YOK-7 relocated to United States

The Minister of Basic and Higher Education has warned that strong action would be taken against head teachers and principals in default of submitting Continuous Assessment in respective of their schools. Specifically, Dr Moinina David

One of the fundamental pillars of Social Corporate Responsibility of Kingho Railway and Port Company Limited is geared towards supporting agricultural production in the operational chiefdom of Kamasondo, in Port Loko District, Northern Province of

With high speculation that the pump price of petroleum products may hike at the end of June, the Executive Chairman of the Petroleum Regulatory Agency, Dr Brima M Baluwa Koroma has outlined strategic unprecedented interventions

The western area chairman of the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) Hon Manso Dumbuya has accused one of his opponents Ibrahim Keita of forgery. Mr Keita, who is also known as Brima Keita is challenging

Following the conduct of the 2018 Parliamentary and Presidential elections, over one hundred recommendations under key categories were made by the Elections Observer Mission (EOM) that speak to the multiple irregularities identified during the course

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development in collaboration with the National Electoral Commission (NEC), is in the heat of conducting phased elections for over 60 Paramount Chieftaincy elections across the country. The first tranche

To say the least, the largest and strongest opposition party, the All Peoples Congress (APC) party is in serious conflict with itself and from the outside; a house divided among them cannot stand. While there seems