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By Saio Marrah

Justice Komba Kamanda of the High Court in Freetown has sentenced one Moses Adu to 10 years imprisonment after finding him guilty of sexually penetrating a girl.

Delivering his judgment on Thursday 6^th July 2023, the judge said the victim testified that she was alone at home when the accused, who was their neighbor and security personnel, knocked on the door, pushed and entered. The accused then grabbed her, tore her pants and sexually assaulted her and that she was a virgin at the time.

By Saio Marrah

Freetown High Court Number 7 presided over by Justice Komba Kamanda has set free a man named Zachariah Jalloh of sexual penetration charges of a girl under age of consent.

In his ruling on Thursday 6^th July 2023, the judge said in a criminal matter the burden is on the prosecution to prove the evidence beyond reasonable doubt.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

In order to run a very competitive league in the country, the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) intends to introduce a new football ecosystem that will see the scaling down of the number of male premier league teams from the present eighteen to twelve by the 2026/2027 league season.

This pronouncement was made by the President of SLFA, Thomas Daddy Brima during the SLFA Ordinary Congress that started on the 4^th and ended 6^th July, 2023 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Freetown.

By Nasratu Kargbo

National Elections Watch (NEW) has released its Process and Results Verification for Transparency (PRVT) methodology following criticisms of the methodology they used to arrive at the projection made about the June Presidential Election, which stated that no candidate met the constitutional threshold to become president and that there should be a run-off.  

By Saio Marrah

The second prosecution witness in an ongoing wounding case has told the High Court that his brother (the accused) Mohamed Sankoh stabbed the complainant Idrissa Kamara in his eye and ran away abandoning his knife.

Led in evidence by the State Prosecutor Solomon Christian Kekurah at High Court No.1 in Freetown on Friday 7^th July 2023, David Sankoh told the court that the incident happened in the early hours of Thursday 2nd June last year.

By Politico staff writer

Politico can authoritatively reveal that high level talks have begun between the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party and the main opposition, APC. Sources who should know about the meeting told Politico that Hon. Mohamed Sidi Tunis, Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament and John Oponjo Benjamin who was sacked from his job as a Senior Adviser to President Bio on Wednesday, met former president Ernest Bai Koroma at his home in Makeni.

 Our sources believe the meeting was approved by President Julius Maada Bio.

By Politico staff writer

Influential football personality Babadi Kamara has resigned from his position as Team Manager of Leone Stars. He confirmed his resignation in Salone Players’ Watch (SPW) – a Whatsapp platform.

Reasons for Kamara’s resignation have   not been immediately made public but it is likely to get the rumour mill in motion. He however personally denied on SPW, assumption that his action could be linked to him taking up political office in the near future.