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By Richard Ngevao

A joint divisional police operation led by the deputy operations officer for the Bo west division, Inspector Augustine Kabbia in the early hours of Tuesday morning led to the arrest of five men suspected to be armed robbers along Tikonkor Road in Bo.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

A Guinean national, who was allegedly caught with 36kg of cannabis sativa in Sumbuya village in the border town of Kambia, between Sierra Leone and Guinea, has been committed to High Court in Freetown.

The accused, AlkalyTraoure,  who only spoke Susu before Magistrate Komba Kamanda of Court No. 2,was under preliminary investigations on two countcharge of unlawful possession and transportation of cannabis sativa, all contrary to law.

Through an interpreter he pleaded guilty to the charges.

Bampia James Bundu

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

By Crispina Cummings

The parliamentary committee on local government and rural development on Tuesday met the administrative wing of the Freetown City Council at their Wallace Johnson Street office.
Chairman of the committee, Abubakarr Koroma, MP, told the staff that they had gone to check on projects executed by the council and its sectors and to also verify

By Mathew Kanu

In furtherance of the road maintenance fund policy and further collaboration with the local councils, the Road Maintenance Fund administration has allocated 15% of funds collected from the road user charge to 17 of the 19 councils across the country. It was followed by a series of meetings the councils by the Fund’s head of public relations Kumba Brewah.

Regional experts have ended a two-day meeting in Accra, Ghana aimed at reviewing the revised roadmap for the ECOWAS single currency, the ECO, which involves the creation of a second currency by six west African countries by 2015.
The countries are Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria agreed to create a second currency after the CFA used by all but one of the French-speaking countries in the region. This will see the region using two parallel currencies until 2020 when a single currency is expected to come into being.