With
the life of the current national officers having long since expired and two
extensions made to its life, the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), would
have been planning to hold zonal, ward, constituency, district and regional
executive elections were it not for the unexpected COVID-19 outbreak in March.

Those
elections would pave the way to holding of the party’ National Delegates
Conference that would elect new national officers.

Speaking
to The Exclusive, a source close to …

A joint team of
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and Operation Support Division (OSD) of
the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) in the early hours of Friday, 30th July
stormed a residential home at 33 Dillet Street, Freetown and discovered huge
chunk of arms and ammunition.

Updating on the
joint team operation, the Director of Crime Services, Assistant Inspector
General of Police (AIG) Brima Jah disclosed that the operation came following
an intelligence report from the public.

According to…

The Director of
Crime Service has disclosed that on Friday 17th July 2020, one Fatu
Banya accompanied by a 15 year old entered a report of an alleged sexual
penetration against Mohamed Kamaraimba Mansaray, Chairman and Leader of the Alliance
Democratic Party (ADP).

According to the
Director, the allegation stated that on diverse dates between the 5th
of February to 31st of March, 2020 in Kono and Freetown, Mr.
Kamaraimba Mansaray penetrated the girl (name withheld). Police, he said,
recorded…

The World Bank
Board of Executive Directors has approved a US$40 million grant from the
International Development Association (IDA) to support investment and growth of
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in non-mining productive sectors.

The Sierra Leone Economic Diversification Project will help
strengthen the business enabling environment by promoting reforms to facilitate
business entry and operation, facilitate strategic public investments to
improve competitiveness and private investme…

According
to the new World Bank Sierra Leone Economic Update launched in Freetown,
the COVID-19 pandemic is having a
significant impact on the country’s medium-term growth prospects and the
economy is projected to contract by 2.3 to 4.0 percent in 2020 due to
disruption in global trade, travel restrictions and domestic restrictions on mobility.
The fiscal and current account deficits are expected to increase due to
increased crisis-related spending while inflation is also expected to
rise.&nbsp…

The
Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) has past Friday, 30th July,
2020 announced the disbursement of a total of US$1,300,000 FIFA
and CAF COVID-19 relief funds.

In
a nationwide broadcast of a press conference held at the Atlantic Hall, at
Stadium Hostels, Brookfields, Freetown, decisions made by stakeholders and
Executive Committee of the FA were announced to the press and nation.

In
her opening statements, the President of SLFA Madam Isha Johansen expresse…

With support from
Agricultural Value Development Project (AVDP) in collaboration with the
Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, the Parliamentary Oversight Committee
on Agriculture has at the weekend concluded a five-day Oversight on value chain
project that is being implemented by Farmer Field schools in several
communities across Sierra Leone.

 The project which is being facilitated by AVDP
in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, aims at capacitating farmers
to improv…

State House sources have intimated The Exclusive
that the unceremonious sacking of former Attorney General and Minister of Justice,
Dr. Priscilla Schwarz for what many believed was her botched treason trial of Rtd.
Major Palo Conteh which in government circles was seen as a huge embarrassment is
precursor of a pending shakeup of the cabinet.

With President Bio having at the start of 2020 told
the nation that this is a year of delivery, reports are that from his office,
connected to all the M…

The harsh reality of life, whether one lives in
Africa, Asia, Europe or the Americas, is that the final resting place of all
mankind, whether rich or poor, black or white, tall or short, educated or
uneducated, healthy or ill, is the grave.

So it was that on a somber Friday afternoon at the
site of his planned Kabala University, Momoh Konte and two other sons of the
soil of Koinadagu were laid to rest alongside each other.

Those who attended the funeral said the crowd that
turned out in t…

Everyone knows that money is the fuel that runs all
organizations, including the state machinery.

Now and after the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government
of Sierra Leone like all other governments in the world would not continue to
perform their numerous functions as well as crucially deliver needed goods and
services to their citizens without being able to generate enough revenue.

This is where Dr. Samuel Jibao and the National Revenue
Authority (NRA) which is well poised to continue provi…

By Mariama Hamadi

One of the alleged
killers of the Former Chief of Defence Staff, Samuel Omarr Williams and Ibrahim
Kalokoh is reported to have died during the prison riot that took place on the
29th of April this year.

Ibrahim Kalokoh and three
other defendants were arraigned before Justice Emanuela Harding sometime in
2017 after going throw preliminary investigation on two count indictments of
conspiracy to commit murder contrary to the laws of Sierra Leone.

According to the charge…

By Aruna Rashed Toma Bangura

Six students of Fourah
Bay College (FBC), University of Sierra Leone (USL), Francis Mafinda, Dennis
Holland, Abassie Sesay, Mukeh Foh, Lawrence Lahai Amara and David Williams who
are also members of Klymax Klub, a fraternity with the Black family will today
Monday, 13th July, 2020 appear before Justice Ivan Sesay at the
Freetown High Court.

The six accused Klymax Klub
member will be a arraigned before the court for two counts charges of
conspiracy to commit a …

By Amadu
Barrie

A Civil Society Activists in Kenema, Fallah Albert Bockarie,
has informed the public about some of the recommendations that were made by the
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Sierra Leone after the eleven
years civil war.

Speaking to this medium in an exclusive interview in Kenema, Fallah
Albert Bockarie disclosed that the TRC was set up after the war to look at some
of the contributing factors that led to the outbreak of the war in 1991 targeting
political marg…

His
Excellency Brig. Rtd Dr. Julius Maada Bio, President of the Republic of Sierra
Leone, the Ambassador of the European Union to Sierra Leone, Tom Vens, and the
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development have launched the “Support
to Civil Society and Local Authorities for Local Development in Sierra Leone”
programme at the University of Makeni (UNIMAK) Hall, in Makeni City.

In
attendance were also the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Planning and
Economic Development, Resident…