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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-WILSON) The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Schools Education (MBSSE), Bombali District’s Physical and Health Education Department has confirmed 23 and 24 January 2020, as the dates to climaxed its much awaited Volleyball and Football finals for the 2019/2020 academic year. Makeni Wusum mini stadium and the Headquarters of the 4th Brigade, Teko Barracks mini stadium has been confirmed as the two venues where the finals will be played from.  The Makeni Wusum mini stadium has an artificial turf and can seats about 10,000 spectators whilst the Teko Mini stadium has one amongst the best volleyball court in the district that can seats about 3,000 spectators. On Thursday, 23rd January 2020, Saint Francis will open the campaign in the volleyball finals against the tournament’s top side, Sylvanus Municipal Secondary School in the Boys category at the 4th Infantry Brigade Headquarters, Teko Barracks mini stadium. Whilst Makeni Comprehensive Academy will battle it ...

By: Abdulai Mansaray Long after President Maada Bio, his SLPP Party and government would have vacated the seat of power, historians would go to work; and his government would be remembered for many things.   His government would be remembered as one that took the reigns of power from an APC party, and boldly declared that it inherited near empty coffers. It will be remembered as the party that took an oath and swore blind to fight and rid the country of corruption.  Among other things like strengthening the muscle of the ACC and conceiving the birth of another Commission of Inquiry, plugging the leakages has since become the trademark of his tenure.  Fighting corruption, especially in the context of an African country; where corruption is so entrenched that any attempt to fight against it may appear a treasonable offence, is a tough ask.  It is therefore not surprising that Bio’s pledge to fight corruption has placed his government under more scrutiny than ever.  No one is pretending t...

Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy) "It started small, it grew big and has grown bigger". These were the words of an inside political analyst in the APC describing the obvious conflict on reforms. The political definition of NRM is not outside the political dictionary of the APC.  In a contextual sense, NRM is an Anchorage of a group of politicians within the APC seeking internal reforms in a much sustained and productively aggressive manner.  In some sense, NRM represents the voice of the young generation sufficiently poised and motivated to drive reforms in the APC.  The APC as a party in totality is not in conflict with NRM but rather a segment of the APC that combines characters of the old generation and the current leadership cadre of the party. Put in a clearer context, it is a conflict between the old and young generations, forces of continuity and change,  chronic status symbols and desperate elements of a new era, assumed political ownership and aggressive denial to wrongful ...

By: Sahr J. Bangah At a jam-packed high court in Makeni presided over by Justice Unisa Kamara, Amidu Bangura was arraigned for the offence of manslaughter contrary to law after he has spent three years in detention. According to court evidence from the police, it was disclosed that the accused allegedly killed the decease Mohamed Tarawalie at Makoni village in the Kunike Barina chiefdom, Tonkolili District on the 5th May 2017.  It was further disclosed that the decease Mohamed Tarawalie was a worker to the accused Amidu Bangura when he met his untimely death. Another police reported produced in court revealed that the accused was discovered lying along the Makoni road in a pool of blood. The accused Amidu Bangura pleaded not guilty and was represented by Legal Aid Lawyer Ibrahim Samba. During legal argument in court, the accused lawyer raised a submission that the accused did not commit the alleged offence upon which he stand trial and later arguedon the groundsthat all the police stat...

By: Sahr J. Bangah Molai Turay was on 14th January 2020, sentenced to nine months imprison by Justice Unisa Kamara after he was found guilty for receiving stolen properties from a notorious criminal Mohamed Alhaji Jalloh who is on the run.  According to the State Counsel North, Aruna Jalloh informed the court that the accused was arrested in possession of stolen goods that belong to a complaint Abdul Karim Sesay. He further disclosed that on the 7th August 2019, thieves entered the complainant house at No 51 Foday Street, Yogomaia section in Kabala,Kionadugu District and carted away properties worth nine million and five hundred thousand Leones and later they went in to thin air, he noted that during police investigation two of the stolen items was discovered in the possession of the accused Molai Turay claiming that the runaway fugitive Mohamed Alhaji Jalloh gave him. During cross examination, the accused Molai Turay pleaded for mercy but was rejected by the presiding judge on the gro...

By: Sumner Kongbap The Milton Margai College of Education and Technology (MMCET) polytechnic on Tuesday 14th January 2020 officially opened the training course on Pottery Production Techniques for Sierra Leone sponsored by the Chinese Embassy in Freetown. The ceremony was held at the Great Hall of the Goderich campus in Freetown. In his statement, the Principal of MMCET, Dr. Philip John Kanu enlightened that the training is commencing at the right time and commended the Governments of Sierra Leone and China for their support to the college affirming that this is not the first time the Chinese Embassy has supported the college. The Principal also highlighted that the college is the only institution of higher learning in the country renowned for offering courses in Arts and Crafts, Performing and Practical Arts, Music, Technical and Vocational Education and therefore appealed to the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education to help transform it to a Technical University in the country. ...