Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 June 2014 I have sometimes wondered whether some hidden hand was fiddling with my birth calendar, because each twelve month period simply speeds away. Only yesterday, I was joking with friends and family members that we were to wait until [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 June 2014 There was near crisis in Bo school in 1946, barely three months to the Cambridge School Certificate Examination, which back then was the equivalent of today’s West African School Certificate Examination. Teacher L. J. Pratt, who had almost [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 June 2014 The National Insurance and Social Security Trust – NASSIT, has in the past few years, at least since the advent of the APC government, been in the news for all the wrong reasons. The scheme was the initiative [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 May 2014 My last visit to State House was not one that I cared to remember. The then minister of information and communication, himself a former journalist and the erstwhile president of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) – Alhaji Ibrahim [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya (Puawui) The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2014 It was a long time ago while I was still at Medical School. We were having a medical tutorial on Sexually Transmitted Diseases or STD as they are commonly referred to in medical circles. I expressed my concern at [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 May 2014 As a boy in Primary school, and for Pete’s sake, I would not want Ambassador Umaru Wurie to gloat over this admission that my Bo School was a primary school, while he attended a Secondary school. Dear readers, [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya (Puawui) The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2014 I listened to Sierra Leone’s Chief Electoral Commissioner – Christiana Thorpe (Photo) the other evening, as she was being interviewed on the Society for Radio Democracy FM 98.1, about her recently published memoirs – “REACH FOR THE STARS “ [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya (Puawui) The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 April 2014 Readers may recall my exhortation to the warring factions within our SLPP (Torkpoi) family, to put an end to the internecine warfare and get on with the task of reminding a thoroughly disenchanted public, about the failures of the [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya (Puawui) The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 April 2014 Before many readers read today’s column, the ceremony marking the 40th day funeral rites of the late former President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (Photo) would be far advanced. I was at the late former President’s Juba Hill residence on Wednesday, [Read More]
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