By Kenneth Thompson
Action Aid Sierra Leone in collaboration with Action Aid International Secretariat has concluded a five-day human rights based approach training of youth activists in the country at the civil service training college in Freetown. It is the sixth key change promise made by ActionAid. The other keys include training youth on land and agriculture, management, governance, tax justice, education and youth empowerment.
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Fugitive former worker of the National Revenue Authority, wanted by the Anti-Corruption Commission for alleged conspiracy to defraud the state, made her first appearance in court yesterday.
Elizabeth King, 33, a former revenue officer, indicted alongside sixteen others in the on-going NRA/Ecobank fraud case and who had been on the run for the past three months, was arrested in The Gambia by the international police, INTERPOL.
By Fasalie Kamara
US State Department yesterday interacted with African journalists through video and audio links to sound opinions on the country’s foreign policy on the continent.
Journalists across different countries in Africa sent in messages through the state department’s website on different issues common but also peculiar to different countries across the continent.
The Governor of the central bank of Sierra Leone, ShekuSambadeenSesay has reacted to a letter written to him by Freetown lawyer Yada William which was carried in our Tuesday edition.
The lawyer had questioned the governor’s appointment of the head of the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank during the recent trials of senior officials on fraud allegations. They were later found not wanting.
In a letter to Politico, a lawyer for the bank, SullayMannah said the bank had replied to the letter, which follows:
Yada H Williams
7 Walpole Street
Freetown
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
