By Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah
The Public Relations Officer of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Sylvanus Blake says the Commission has recovered over 45 Billion Old Leones over the past five years from graft-related cases.
Speaking to Politico in an interview on the 5th of October this year at the ACC Integrity Building, Blake said the money includes the 2.36 Billion Old Leones recently recovered from Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) based on the 2021 Audit Reports.
By Saio Marrah
Justice Monfred Sesay has sentenced one Mohamed Johnson to forty-five years in jail after jurors found him guilty on two counts, conspiracy and murder. Johnson, 31, was sentenced to five years on the first of conspiracy and 45 five years on count two, murder. Both sentences will run concurrently.
By Saio Marrah
The University of Sierra Leone (USL) has in collaboration with the Commonwealth of Learning commenced a two-day stakeholders’ engagement for the development and validation of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) policy at the university.
The discourse will be looking at the policy formulation and, also putting the courses together, that will lead to open and distance learning.
The programme was held at Fourah Bay College Multi-Purpose Building on Thursday 5th October, 2023.
By Saio Marrah
A Magistrate in Freetown conducting preliminary investigations into a murder case at Sumaila Town in Freetown has insisted that the police prosecution must produce a factual witness or he will discharge the accused in the case.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
As a result of the non-functioning of the digital clock installed by Africell at the Clock Tower, the Mayor of Kenema, Thomas Karim Baio has provided a new Analog Clock for the municipality.
Mayor Baio unveiled the device on the 3rd of October, 2023, to mark his first 100 days in office.
Addressing the gathering at the Kenema Clock Tower precincts, Mayor Baio noted that the old clock was replaced as a result of it not serving the people for its intended purpose.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
Magistrate Gershon Lamin Marcathy has remanded Mualemu Brima for various offences ranging from stealing copper reflector light, to wounding and assault.
Brima made his first appearance on the 4th of October 2023 at Court No.2 in Kenema.
According to the particulars of offence, the accused was charged with three counts, one being unlawful possession of 39 copper reflectors along Kenema- Mano Junction Highway.
By Abdulai Fasineh Dumbiya
President Julius Maada Bio has received a $100 million no-collateral Educational Loan for 1,000 (one thousand) Sierra Leonean Graduates to Study Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Masters in Business Administration (MBA), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) courses in the United States of America and Canada.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
