News

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

Police in Pujehun have confirmed the discovery yesterday of the remains of a 28-year-old woman, Mamie Kawa found dead on a footpath around Mapco area by Nganyahun Road in Malen chiefdom, six miles from the chiefdom headquarter town of Sahn.

In what the constabulary suspect to be a ritual murder, pregnant Mamie's private part, her sole and palm were removed. Her stomach was also slit open with her foetus suspected to have also been removed.

The near-decomposed body was discovered by two old women.

By Mustapha Sesay

The deputy vice chancellor of Fourah Bay College, Prof. Sahr Philip Gbamanja, has said that they will ban all taxis not roadworthy, from plying the road to campus on Mount Aureol. A move that has been roundly condemned by taxi drivers.

Prof Gbamanja made this statement while commissioning two new buses.

Rev Davies

By Mustapha Sesay and Crispina Cummings

The rippled effects of the new method of selecting candidates for the school-leaving WASSCE exams are reverberating with the latest being heads of private schools.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

An abandoned mining pit at Number Nine Junction in Kono district has claimed the lives of two pupils, Simeon Ansumana, 9, of the Seventh Day Adventist Primary School and Tamba Kanjay, 10, of the Life Primary school.

The kids, who stayed 300 meters away at Old NDMC camp, had gone to swim in the 7-foot deep still water which was apparently left behind by massive mining activities.

By Bampia James Bundu

General manager of MKDS Jahs building and construction company, Alhaji Samura, has laid claim to the controversial Grassfield Power Magazine community land much to the chagrin of youth and some community elders.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

A pilot school project, which aims at raising “agents of change”, will be officially launched by the Attitudinal and Behavioral Change (ABC) secretariat today, February 13, at the Atlantic Hall, National Stadium Hostel in Freetown. It will follow a two-day training of over one hundred pupils in four secondary schools to become “agents of change or peer educators in schools and society”.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

First prosecution witness (PW1) in the ongoing preliminary investigation of three accused persons who allegedly pirated hundreds of Sierra Leonean movies, has identified hundreds of pirated movies tendered as evidence before magistrate Komba Kamanda of Court No.2 in Freetown.

Film maker and director, Pastor Aiah, tendered the over 1,000 CDs alongside a monitor, a CPU, a writer or burner, a video camera and a printer. He said the pirated films were being sold at Le 2,500 whiles original copies were being sold at Le 10,000.