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VP Sam-Sumana

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Office of the National Security (ONS) and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) have squarely blamed the country’s Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana and local government minister, Finda Diana Konomayi for the woes of Kono district.

David Tam-Baryoh

The main opposition Sierra Leone People's Party has condemned the temporary ban of the weekly radio programme Monologue by the Independent Media Commission on the orders of the Sierra Leone cabinet led by President Ernest Bai Koroma.

Dr Richard Konteh

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

A Freetown Magistrate yesterday refused bail for the third time to the sacked State House Chief of Staff , Dr Richard Konteh and three others standing trial for illegally exporting timber against a nationwide ban.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

Hundreds of land owners and other descendants of Galliness Perri chiefdom in Pujehun district recently held a meeting at Blama Massaquoi where they expressed "disappointment over the operations of China Kingho Investment in the Gendema section of our district".

By Bampia James Bundu

The National Assets and Government Properties Commission, has held a day’s engagement with ministries, department and agencies (MDAs) in the development of a National Assets Register for the country.

By Jenneh Braima

The Mayor of the Freetown, Frankly Bode Gibson has called on community health officers (CHOs) in the capital city to "build a good working relationship with their councillors in their wards or communities".

He was speaking after a recent misunderstanding between a councillor and a community health worker over who should be a signatory for the disbursement of Le 500 million donated by the Sierra Leone Brewery Company for the construction of a community health centre in Ward 351.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Some petty traders in the eastern Kono district have protested against last week’s elections results, describing the entire process as “undemocratic, stage-managed and invalid.”

Outside the polling stations, aggrieved traders in their dozens held on to placards with inscriptions “no elections without peace! Peace before elections!” But their calls were ignored and the OSD was called in to disperse them and warn them against coming anywhere beyond one hundred metres from the polling stations.