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 6th 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 4th and ended 6th 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 7th 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.
By Nasratu Kargbo
Sierra Leonean Pilgrims have urged President Julius Maada Bio to work in tandem with the opposition in a bid to develop the country and promote peace, whiles congratulating him on his re-election.
The Pilgrims asked that the leaders set aside their differences and work towards developing Sierra Leone.
One of the Pilgrims Haja Zainab Barrie Lappia called on the President to govern the country as a father by embracing those from the political divide.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
