Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 November 2015: If the Koroma government had properly managed the Ebola funds grant-aided to the people of Sierra Leone last year, of which $14 million was stolen, it would not have been necessary for the government to significantly increase its borrowing requirement in order to address [Read More]
Nyamacoro Silla Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 November 2015 Over the last month or so, there have been several discussions on the proposed Mamamah airport project, which has been brought to the public’s attention. (Photo: Lungi airport president Koroma no longer wants). The Mamamah airport project is one that the government [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 November 2015 An orchestra conductor does not face the crowd. President Koroma’s insistence on doing just that and dishing out meaningless platitudes, rather than leading the country in getting our national priorities right, is to my mind, the blot on his determined bid [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 November 2015 Since the declaration of Sierra Leone as Ebola free two weeks ago, there has been a flurry of activity from the Koroma government – egged on by the IMF and the World Bank, to kick-start an ailing economy. Sierra Leone’s economy is seriously ill [Read More]
Ambassador Alhaji Umaru Bundu Wurie Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 November 2015 I am Ambassador Umaru Bundu Wurie (Photo), affectionately and widely known as “Bond Wurie”. I grew up in a working class family in Gbinti, a small town in the Dibia Chiefdom of Port Loko District in northern Sierra Leone. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 November 2015 Sierra Leone’s 1991 Constitution which was hurriedly cobbled together and passed through a One Party State parliament that was dominated and run by the APC party in 1991, has always been regarded as unsatisfactory and unfit for purpose. It is a constitution that was [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 November 2015 On the eve of the World Health Organisation declaring Sierra Leone Ebola free, the minister of finance – Marah presented his 2016 Budget to the houses of parliament. According to the minister, the government will need hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and [Read More]
Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 November 2015 The defeat that the SLPP suffered over the weekend in the By-Elections is entirely due to Maada Bio’s subjugation of the national interest and party’s interest to his thirst for power. Since becoming the flagbearer, the SLPP wittingly or unwittingly have allowed [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 November 2015 Things cannot get any worse for the main opposition political party of Sierra Leone – the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), as it suffered one of the most spectacular electoral defeats in its history last weekend. With the exception of Bonthe, the party lost [Read More]
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