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By Saio Marrah

 State Prosecutor, Oladipo Robin-Mason, has told jurors in the ongoing treason trial that the second accused confessed to police investigators that he was actively involved in the failed coup plot.

 In his closing address at the high court in Freetown on Friday 19^th July 2024, he  reminded the 12 person jury that Mohamed Jalloh admitted in his voluntary caution statement that the plan was due to be executed in March 2023  and that the first accused Koita Makalo  persuaded him to “join the mission.”

By Nasratu Kargbo

Members of Parliament have appealed to the newly approved Commissioners at the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) to help improve the standard of education in the country, saying standards have dropped and blamed every Sierra Leonean for the fall.

They made this call on the 16^th July 2024 whilst debating on presidential nominees. They highlighted certain factors such as selling of grades and providing leakages for students and pupils amongst other things as being the reason for the drop in standards.

By Alpha Abu

Lawyers in neighbouring Guinea are on a two-week strike action that began on Tuesday 16^th July, in protest over what they say are the arbitrary arrests of people in the country by the security forces.

There are no clear indications as to the number of arrests in question but  the strike comes at a time of the arrest and detention of Civil Society leaders Oumar Sylla and Mamadou Billo Bah, allegedly by heavily armed hooded men in military fatigues and civilian clothes.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

The Sierra Leone Police (SLP) through its Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has arrested Abdul Kadiru Kaikai for an incendiary statement he made through a social media video that if he does not become President in 2028, he will mastermind and bring war to Sierra Leone.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

As part of controlling and regulating Air quality and Pollution in the country, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with funds from UNDP held its final validation of air quality and pollution regulations in Kenema, Eastern region.

At the end of the validation process on the 13th July, 2024, Bobson Abdulai on behalf of the Nongowa Chiefdom Chieftaincy told the gathering about the threat of pollution to human beings, and especially its health implications to people living in urban settlements.

By Saio Marrah

A State prosecutor has told the jury in ongoing treason trial that they have proved beyond reasonable doubt for the two counts on treason, six counts on murder and one count on shooting with intent to kill levied against Amadu Koita Makalo.

By Saio Marrah

Yeanor Kabia, one of the presidential candidates in the upcoming Sierra Leone Reporters Union Election, has during the launch of her campaign manifesto, promised to improve the welfare of union members.

At the unveiling ceremony of her manifesto titled: “Rebranding Reporters Union” in Freetown on Wednesday 17th July, 2024, she promised to engage media owners and managers on the issue of salary for reporters especially those who have been volunteering for six months and over.