By Prince J Musa in Kenema

Police in Kenema are investigating one Fomba Salieu Kanneh resident in Kenema after officers deployed at the Wanjama checkpoint arrested a Nissan Car loaded with huge quantities of dry leaves suspected to be Cannabis Sativa (Jamba).

By Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah

The Chief Minister, David Moinina Sengeh has said that the government of President Julius Maada Bio has expanded internet connectivity to over ninety percent of the population, from seventy percent six years ago.

Sengeh was speaking as a keynote speaker on the topic “Leadership and Governance” at the fifth World Government Services hosted in Dubia on 12^th January 2024.

By Saio Marrah

Amadu Koita Makalo, retired RSLAF soldier has been named as the “master planner and commander” of the assailants, who undertook a failed coup in Sierra Leone on Sunday November 26^th 2023. 

Sergeant Michael Sankoh, an investigator attached to the Military Police, revealed this on Friday 9^thFebruary, 2024, while reading the voluntary caution statement of the first accused in the ongoing court martial, Staff Sergeant Alhaji Koroma. 

By Nasratu Kargbo 

Member of Parliament from Moyamba District Veronica  Kadie Sesay has been elected President of the Economic Community of West African States Female Parliamentary Association (ECOFEPA) to serve the bureau in the bloc’s 6th legislature. 

Members of the new executive were presented at the ECOFEPA regional summit held in Freetown, Sierra Leone where their First Vice President handed over the baton to them on the 9^th February 2024. 

By Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah

Briefing the media on the progress made so far by the Electoral Systems and Management Body Review (ESMBR), the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Sierra Leone, confirmed that the government, and the main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) Party have signed the terms of reference for the committee to guide them throughout the review process spanning from 2007, 2012, 2018 and the June 2023 elections.

By Nasratu Kargbo

The Speaker of ECOWAS Parliament Mohamed Sidi Tunis has on behalf of the institution expressed that they want to be given the power to conduct direct elections for one to become a member of ECOWAS parliament, instead of the current system where MPs are chosen from their national parliaments to represent their respective countries. 

By Politico staff writer

Politico sports can confirm that when the project to upgrade the football pitch in the east of the city at a place called Trade Center where East End Lions play their home matches is complete fans will experience state-of-the-art facilities open to all. The people in the east end of Freetown are celebrating.

EE Lions chairman Ambassador Anthony Navo Jr., announced the arrival of a container of equipment required to build the modern structure and experienced contractors to build a state-of-the-art Football pitch.