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SLPP women and First Lady daggers drawn

A serious rift has erupted between sections of the women’s wing of the governing Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) and the First Lady of the Republic, Her Excellency Mrs Fatima Jabbie Bio. Both camps have accused

Pupils attending junior and senior secondary schools in Freetown have complained about the school buses deployed by the government to aid the free quality education. The introduction of the school buses was a result of the

President Dr Julius Maada Bio has on Monday 29 November 2021, received two Hollywood producers, Ariel Leon and Michael Duff, from The Root Production Service to discuss possibilities to film on location in Freetown, Bo

Court of Appeal Judge, Hon. Justice Alhaji Momoh-Jah Stevens, presiding over cases at the Sexual Offences Court in Freetown has sentenced 65-year-old Businessman, Mohamed Conteh, to eight years imprisonment for sexually assaulting and impregnating his

In a recent announcement, President Bio declared in a tweet that “Another promise made and delivered! My government has just approved and authorised the Attorney General to lay in parliament a proposed amendment to the

The Executive Director of the Patriotic Advocacy Network (PAN- SL), Ansumana Keita, has on Wednesday 17th November, 2021, written to the Master and Registrar of Sierra Leone Law Court Building on the status of the

In commemorating the International Students' Day, the West Africa Youth Network (WAYN) has on Wednesday 17th November, 2021, launched its Education Project Magazine at the Multi-Purpose Hall, Fourah Bay College, Freetown. Giving the background of the

Pastor Balogun Macaulay, a chorister of the Bethel Temple, Tower Hill, Freetown has appeared before Magistrate Sahr Kekura of Magistrate court No1 Pademba Road, Freetown, charged two counts of criminal offences. He is charged with an

Charles Margai breaks silence! For more than three years of keeping silent after he was dismissed from office as Attorney General and Minister of Justice on 12th June 2018 barely two months after his appointment, Charles

Certain provisions in the 1991 constitution of our country guarantee the tenure of office of certain important offices in the land. This means that holders of such offices cannot just be removed at the whim

We gathered pieces of our past left on the fringes To pillar the memory of a nation afflicted by amnesia To stop the slide to a future traumatized like our past So, we mined the iron ore from

The industrious and highly ethical financial civil servant, Lara Taylor-Pierce has been told to “go and wait while we investigate you", by the Government of Sierra Leone for unexplained reasons. The news dropped like a bomb

21 year old student and green energy pioneer from Sierra Leone, Jeremiah Thoronka, has become the first-ever winner of the $100,000 Chegg.org Global Student Prize 2021. He won the prize for inventing a device that uses kinetic

Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sunday 7 November 2021 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has ended his visits to survivors of the tragic fuel tanker explosion who are now responding to treatment at the

Freetown, 6th November - Voluntary Service Overseas are providing emergency disaster response to the explosion in Freetown, Sierra Leone which killed scores of people when a fuel tanker collided with a lorry on Friday evening. VSO