The principal witness in the matter between the Inspector General of Police, John Keister and Daniel Conteh, involving alleged assault of journalist Thomas Dixon, yesterday testified at the Pademba Road Magistrates Court No 5.
According to the particulars of offence the accused were being tried on allegations of assault, causing actual bodily harm, trespass and public insult against the complainant on 18 November 2014 at his King Williams Street residence in Freetown.
By Mustapha Kamara
Executive Director of Heal Sierra Leone, a local nongovernmental organisation, says they will sue the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) for allegedly breaching an agreement to broadcast an emergency teaching TV programme.
Joseph Sannoh told Politico that the state broadcaster had agreed to broadcast the programme for four months but weeks into the agreement the corporation terminated it, hence the legal action.
By Allieu Sahid Tunkara
An organisation of alumni of Fourah Bay College based in the United States of America (Alumni USA) has donated one bus to the college as a way to ease the problem of transport on campus.
Speaking on behalf of staff of the college, Vice Chancellor and Principal of Fourah College, Professor Sahr Gbamanja, said the 30-seater bus would ease the transport situation.
He said that although the college was not operating at the moment, the donation would be timely when the academic session resumed.
Save The Children health workers readying to enter the Ebola wards
By Mustapha Kamara
By Allieu Sahid Tunkara
The Judge Advocate at the on-going court-martial has acquitted and discharged one of the 14 soldiers standing trial for conspiracy to commit mutiny and incitement to mutiny.
Judge Otto During told RSLAF/18164718 Corporal Alex Jibao Koroma that he had “no case to answer before the court".
He said Corporal Koroma raised an alibi in his statement to the police when he said he was on leave on the 10th of August, 2013, the date on which the prosecution claimed that the alleged mutiny had taken place.
By Bampia James Bundu
Several girls who attended a one-day training yesterday on the effect of Ebola on education and teenage pregnancy in the country have expressed concern over teenage pregnancy and the lack of education.
Schools have not reopened since July because of concerns of the spread of Ebola.
The training was organised by Community Action to Restore Lives (CARL).
ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff (CCDS) met at an Extraordinary Session in Accra yesterday “to articulate military contributions to strengthen regional response against the Ebola outbreak which has inflicted huge humanitarian and economic tolls on the region” according to an ECOWAS press release.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
