By Aminata Phidelia Allie
A contractor at the Bintumani Hotel in Freetown has testified as the first prosecution witness in the recent police shooting which left an another police officer, Constable Allieu Fayanday Koroma dead.
Companies blacklisted for fraud
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
A number of companies have been blacklisted for allegedly aiding criminal activities in the current cases of state fraud being investigated by the Anti-Corruption Commission and the Sierra Leone Police.
Yengema gets multi-purpose centre
By Septimus Senessie
The Yengema Development Association ((YENDA) has officially handed over a well-equipped multi-purpose vocational skills training centre to people of Yengema Town in the Nimikoro chiefdom, Kono District.
SALWACO workers attack journalist in Makeni
A journalist working for the Torchlight newspaper was attacked on June 19, 2013, by a group of workers of the Sierra Leone Water Company (SALWACO) based in Makeni, according to an alert from the Accra-based Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).
No election in Mile 91
The spokesman of the National Electoral Commission, Albert Massaquoi says the parliamentary bye-election in the APC stronghold of Constituency 62 in Mile 91 will no longer hold. It was scheduled for Saturday 29 June following the appointment of the incumbent, Mathew Teambo, as Minister of Labour and Industrial Relations.
US official slams RUF kingpin
A United States Congressman, Frank R. Wolf has called on US Secretary of State John Kerry to wade into the issue of the former RUF kingpin and alleged Charles Taylor aide, Ibrahim Bah aka Ibrahim Baldeh.
“I write to urge the State Department to press the Government of Sierra Leone to open a criminal investigation against Ibrahim Bah”, Wolf writes in a letter to Secretary Kerry.
