Sierra Leone News

Gaps in the proposed ACC Amendments 2019 – a rejoinder

March 25, 2019 0

Sorie-Sengbe Marrah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2019: I pored over Winstanley Bankole Johnson’s above-titled article interrupting my typically restful Sunday. I must admit that much as the article betrays expectations for substance, I must commend the writer, whose post-mayoral life is now spent on scholastic contribution to governance since [Read More]

Gaps in the proposed ACC Amendments 2019 – a rejoinder

March 25, 2019 0

Gaps in the proposed Sierra Leone Anti-Corruption Commission Amendments 2019

March 24, 2019 0

Winstanley R Bankole Johnson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 March 2019: Parliamentarians are wont to shift blame for their enacting shoddy laws or for approving mediocre Presidential appointees to us the electorates. Their argument is that public input which is germane to their decision-making processes is non-existent, even though opportunities for [Read More]

Jonathan Fitzjohn remembered – gone too soon

March 23, 2019 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2019: Mr Jonathan Musselman Henry Fitzjohn passed away peacefully in London – a year ago, on his birthday, March 19, 2018. He was only 54 years old. This week he is remembered by his family, friends and business associates across the world. Jonathan Musselman Henry Fitzjohn, was [Read More]

Sierra Leone has no room for national or ethnic hatred

March 23, 2019 0

Puawui – Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2019: One of my friends of my Prince of Wales School days, the late Physician Cardiologist Dr Reginald (Reggie) Eleady-Cole and I sailed to Britain on the Elder Dempster passenger boat MV Aureole on 3rd October 1953. Oh the memory [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s High Commissioner to UK promotes Sierra Leone to British investors and parliamentarians

March 22, 2019 2

Abdulai Braima: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 March 2019: Not a single minute to spare; no time to stop and rest; no room for personal pleasure or laid-back leisure. Those three phrases could somehow neatly fit in as an appropriate description of the tightly packed schedule of a tireless diplomatic mission [Read More]

Sierra Leone agriculture minister launches agribusiness support service for farmers

March 22, 2019 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 March 2019: Sierra Leone’s minister of agriculture and forestry, Mr. Joseph Jonathan Ndanema, yesterday launched an induction programme for beneficiaries of the Agribusiness Services Matching Grant (ASMG). The grant support is coordinated by the Small Holder Commercialization and Agribusiness Development Project (SCADeP) and supervised by the [Read More]

President Bio is in the United Arab Emirates

March 22, 2019 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 March 2019: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone is in the United Arab Emirates on a state visit and attending the Annual Global Education and Skills Forum. Arriving in Abu Dhabi yesterday, 21st March 2019, president Bio and his wife Mrs Fatima Bio and entourage [Read More]

Sierra Leone appoints four new Supreme Court Judges

March 21, 2019 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 March 2019: After the unceremonious and unconstitutional sacking of vice president Sam Sumana in 2015 by president Ernest Bai Koroma with the help of the country’s Supreme Court Judges who endorsed his decision, many in Sierra Leone could not wait to see the backs of those [Read More]

Sierra Leone Anti-Corruption Commission cracks down on judiciary

March 21, 2019 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 March 2019: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Czar – Francis Ben Kaifala has vowed to go wherever evidence of corruption and bribery leads, in an effort to win the fight against corruption which has been declared by president Julius Maada Bio. Yesterday, the ACC conducted an unannounced investigation [Read More]

World Bank approves $40 Million to support policy reforms and inclusive growth in Sierra Leone

March 20, 2019 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2019: The World Bank today approved a $40 million International Development Association (IDA) grant to support key policy reforms to promote sustainable and inclusive growth and build economic resilience in Sierra Leone. According to a statement published today by the Bank, the Second Productivity and [Read More]

President Bio meets West African Examination Council delegation

March 20, 2019 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2019: A high-level delegation from the West African Examination Council (WAEC) held a meeting at State House today, Wednesday 20 March 2019, with president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone to discuss the Council’s 67th Annual Meeting taking place in Freetown this week. Chairman of [Read More]

President Bio announces Sierra Leone’s first strategic plan for the nursing profession

March 20, 2019 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2019: Yesterday, Tuesday 19 March 2019, president Julius Maada Bio formally recognised the sacrifices and hard work of nurses and midwives in Sierra Leone, as he announced the country’s first Strategic Plan for developing the nursing and midwifery profession. Speaking about the dedication and commitment [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s First Lady Fatima Bio is honorary fellow of the West African College of Nursing

March 20, 2019 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2019: Mrs Fatima Maada Bio has been awarded Honorary Fellow of the West African College of Nursing, at the opening ceremony of the 15th Biennial General Meeting, 24th Scientific Session and the 39th Council Meeting of the West African College of Nursing, held at the [Read More]

Women suffering from fistulas in Sierra Leone need more support

March 19, 2019 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 March 2019: Sierra Leone Telegraph’s editor Abdul Rashid Thomas and the medical editor Dr Fawzia Hardy speak with Ivy Kalama who is a Non-Clinical Director of Freedom From Fistula, Africa, about the work of the Aberdeen Women’s Centre in Freetown in coping with the rape crisis [Read More]

How has Sierra Leone’s judiciary fared in the last ten years?

March 19, 2019 13

Dr Sama Banya (Puawui): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 March 2019: The honourable Samuel Beccles Davies was the Chief Justice of the Republic of Sierra Leone in May 1997, when the misguided Corporal Gborie and his friends overthrew the democratically elected President of Sierra Leone and installed Major Johnny Paul Koroma [Read More]

Socfin Sierra Leone honours annual land lease payment to local land owners

March 19, 2019 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 March 2019: Last Friday, 15th March 2019, Socfin Agricultural Company in Sierra Leone, paid the sum total of three hundred and fifty-two million, three hundred and eighty-eight thousand Leones (Le 352,388,000) as payment for land it has leased from local land owners of Zone ‘A’ in [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s free quality education is failing the most vulnerable children

March 19, 2019 3

James Fallah-Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 March 2019: Sierra Leone President – Julius Maada Bio’s declaration of free, quality education for primary and secondary school children, has been applauded by many at home and abroad as a major step forward in helping to transform the degenerating education system in the [Read More]

Brazil Ambassador to Sierra Leone visits cocoa farms in Kenema and Kailahun

March 16, 2019 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2019: Following last week’s discussions between the Ambassador of Brazil to Sierra Leone – Kaiser Araujo and the Sierra Leone Produce Monitoring Board (PMB) Executive Chairman – Dr. James Vibbi, the ambassador has visited cocoa farms in Kenema and Kailahun Districts on the 6th to [Read More]

Pragmatic presidents and versatile leaders – that is SLPP

March 14, 2019 7

Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 March 2019: In the last Puawui edition I made reference to the success story and achievements of the previous SLPP President the late Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan-Kabbah, who departed this world for eternity five years ago. May his gentle soul continue to rest [Read More]

“Socfin must stay” – workers demand

March 14, 2019 4

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 March 2019: Workers of Socfin Agricultural Company in Sierra Leone have told the government that the presence of the agricultural company in Pujehun District, Sahn Malen Chiefdom that has transformed the chiefdom and district to the admiration of most locals, is vital to the economic wellbeing [Read More]

World Bank’s $325 million funding will help kick start Sierra Leone economy

March 13, 2019 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 March 2019: Sierra Leone’s economy is in dire need of external financial support to unlock the massive private sector investments required by the Bio led SLPP government to create jobs and put money in people’s pockets. President Bio has promised the creation of millions of jobs, [Read More]