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By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

A platform of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) named Land for Life which seeks to promote inclusive, people-centered land governance in Sierra Leone has taken the Customary Land Rights Act, 2022 to the provincial people.

The event titled the People’s Land Forum Conference was held at the Bombali District Council Hall on the 29^th of May 2023 in Makeni.

By Saio Marrah

The second prosecution witness in the preliminary investigation into the alleged murder of a teacher from Providence Secondary School has told a magistrate in Freetown that while he didn’t see the accused schoolboy kill his 68-year-old teacher, he saw him enter the late man’s house.

Ibrahim Mansaray told Magistrate Mark Ngegba that the accused Aroun Conteh was the only person he saw entering the home of the late Gilis Edwin Ola Johnson on the day he was killed.

By Politico staff writer
The Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM), University of Sierra Leone (USL) has on Thursday, 25th May 2023 commenced the first live online lectures through one of the e-Learning Studios at the IPAM Tower Hill Campus.

By Saio Marrah

Magistrate Mark Ngegba of the Pademba Road Court has committed a National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT) survivor benefit fraud case for trial in the High Court. He said there was sufficient evidence to try 46 year old Aloysius Borbor Barber in the High Court, rejecting an application by defence lawyer John JG Williams for the case to be dismissed.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Chairman of Sierra Leone Alcohol Policy Alliance (SLAPA) Habib T. Kamara says alcohol sold in plastic sachets has high alcohol content which is very bad for the people.

“Alcohol in sachets is killing this country’’, Kamara said as he addressed journalists on the 24^th May in Freetown on the harmful effects of such alcohol on especially the youthful population, after a stakeholders meeting by the NGO FORUT Sierra Leone.

By Saio Marrah

Justice Unisa Kamara has remanded three accused persons in custody for allegedly robbing one Kadiatu Kai Sesay of her properties with a total value of NLe 7,535 (seven thousand five hundred thirty-five New Leones).

By Alpha Abu

Twenty designated Peace Mediators from communities in Freetown Urban and Rural are being trained on Conflict Resolution by facilitators from the Ghana-based Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre (KAIPTC).

The two-day event which ends today is organised by Sierra Leone’s Independent Commission for Peace and National Cohesion (ICPNC) as part of efforts to diffuse tensions in some communities before, during and after the 24 June polls.