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By: Francis Sowa A bill entitled ‘The Public Order (Amendment) Act, 2019’ has been gazetted. It seeks to “amend the Public Order Act, 1965 (Act No. 46 of 1965) by repealing Part V which deals with defamatory and seditious libel and to provide for other related matters.’ This followed Cabinet’s approval to repeal same. The next destination in the repeal process is Parliament. A bit of history: The Public Order Bill was introduced in Parliament in 1965 by Sir Albert Margai, the second Prime Minister of Sierra Leone. He apparently influenced parliament to enact a law that would serve as a sledge hammer to silent his critics and members of the opposition. Parliament, nonetheless, enacted the Bill despite the serious opposition (Kamara, J, 2007). The 1965 Public Order Act (a substantial extraction from the U.K Libel Act 1843 when it existed) is widely considered to be draconian and out of tune with the tenets of fundamental human rights. The fact that journal...

‼NEWS IN👁 ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Players and Supporters of the North have expressed concerns through display of placards picking on various neglects ranging from third party interference, selfishness, hatred and more by people they referred to as self centered individuals who has got little or no investments or expertise in football and related activities but has been purporting to be working for the general football family. The said players and supporters voiced to a mass audience at the Wusum mini stadium their dearest readiness to continue to show case    talents from the north to the nation and the rest of the world which is why they stand with the decision from the Executive Committee of adding two clubs from the North to maintain a geographical balance in the country's elite league. "We are calling on President Bio to enhance the nationalistic sport flavour an...

23 October, 2019 PRESS RELEASE The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), and its constituent bodies (SWASAL, WIMSAL and SLRU) has formally received from its representatives the final report of the Investigations Committee that was established by the Government of Sierra Leone through the Ministry of Information and Communications to look into allegations levied against security personnel of the Joint Presidential Guard Force during the Sierra Leone-Liberia football encounter on Sunday, 8th September, 2019 at the National Stadium in Freetown. Our representatives reported that the Committee carried out its investigations without interference or intimidation from any quarter and that the proceedings were fair and transparent. SLAJ and its constituent bodies represented in the Investigations Committee therefore call on the Government of Sierra Leone to speedily implement the recommendations in the report. “The recommendations, in my opinion, are generally fair enough to...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson - (AR-Wilson) Football world governing body FIFA has sanctioned the Sierra Leone Football Association with a fine of CHF 50,000 for lack of order, throwing of objects, invasion of the field of play among other incidents that happened in connection with the match between Sierra Leone and Liberia on September 8, 2019 in Freetown during the newest FIFA World cup Qatar 2022 preliminary competition as stated in a its media advisory which further orders the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) to play one match without spectators. This latest decision from FIFA has left fans and supporters of Sierra Leone and many Sierra Leoneans frustrated at a time when the nation is bracing up for the 2021 AFCON qualifiers. The fine levied is equivalent to $45,000 which is about 500,000,000 in Leones including a spectators ban which will possibly be served on November, 11 when Leone Stars will face the Crocodiles of Lesotho at the Siaka Steven Stadium in Freetown. “H...

By : Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR- WILSON ) Standardized Health facilities in the country has been challenging despite efforts from past and current governments, Sierra Leone as a nation still struggles for better health system. For almost several decades now, the country has made efforts to improving the Health sector but can only boast of an improving medical service for Children, Lactating and Pregnant Mothers nationwide. Pharmacists in the country belonging to the National Society of Pharmacists have frowned at related parties whose hands are on the construction of a health facility situated at Kingharman Road in Freetown for a latest neglect on their relevance pointing out to the failure of hearing to their concerns for constructing a dispensary and shelves for the store proposed by both NMSA and hospital management at the center. For months now, when the construction of a health facility situated at Kingharman Road in Freetown begun, the National Pharmacists Association l...

By: Adama S. Fofanah Faces of the North Entertainment Awards (FaNEA), is an entertainment entity which was established on 30thNovember 2016 through Summit Empire, in a bid to help showcase hidden potentialities of various youths and others as a way of giving life to the Entertainment industry especially those that hails from the northern region, FaNEA Founder and Chief Executive Officer for Summit Empire Iscandri A Sankoh, this is an initiative he has acquired many years ago. On Saturday the 5the October 2019, FaNEA unveiled the final list of Nominees for the 2019 edition at city Bar and Restaurant. The entertainment stakeholders, sponsors and partners , the press, and the Face of this year’s  FaNEA awards  Madam Agness Saio Manasaray  were among those that witness the event. In his open remark the C.E.O and founder  for FaNEA said this year his team  added  nine category to the previous 38 categories which sum up to 47categories for FaNEA awards 20...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR- WILSON ) The 2019 EBK League which has been referred to as the Northern Champions League by some sports followers will kick start on Saturday October 19 this year. Twenty teams from six Districts (Bombali, Kambia, Port Loko, Tonkolili, Koinadugu and Kono) are already lined up to play home and away games in eight days fixtures. All games for this phase of the competition are expected to be played in Makeni, Bumbuna, Lungi, Rokupr, Kambia, Bamoi, Fadugu, Port Loko, Mile 91 and Magburaka respectively. Cheltenham, Sunday Foundation, Talent Rangers, Urban and Bullom Stars are all debutants into the EBK League. The defending champions Wusum Stars will face the Bombali District latest division two champions in Makeni, while other teams will have to battle it out at other venues in the northern region. Out of the twenty teams for this year’s league, both Marampa Stars of Lunsar and Sky Eagles of Kono are seeded already into the next round of the ...