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Month: April 2018

Politics & Law

Sierra Leone’s new Attorney General starts work today

April 16, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 8

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2018: Mr. Charles Francis Margai who last week was appointed as Sierra Leone’s new Attorney General and Minister of Justice, has today taken his oath of office, witnessed by the president – Retired Brigadier Julius Maada Bio. This is the first time in the country’s [Read More]

Politics & Law

How will president Bio get his programme through parliament?

April 14, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 5

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 April 2018: Sierra Leone’s elections are long over. The people have spoken. Julius Maada Bio of the opposition SLPP has been elected president. But he has failed to win control of the country’s parliament – the legislature. So how will he get his programmes and budgets [Read More]

Economy & Business

Sierra Leone president Bio opens talks with IMF and development partners

April 13, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 7

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2018: Sierra Leone’s newly elected president Julius Maada Bio was today granted a vote of confidence by the IMF and the country’s international development partners at a High-Level Forum on Economic Policy Priorities, jointly organised by the IMF and the ministry of finance in Freetown. [Read More]

Politics & Law

President Julius Maada Bio appoints cabinet ministers

April 12, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 29

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 April 2018: After much anticipation from the people of Sierra Leone, and criticisms too for delaying the appointment of his cabinet ministers, president Julius Maada Bio has today announced his first wave of ministers and senior officials, who will help him govern a divided and economically [Read More]

Politics & Law

NGC party executives welcome newly elected parliamentary representatives

April 11, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 10

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 April 2018: The newly elected National Grand Coalition (NGC) members of parliament for Kambia District, have arrived in Freetown for a series of consultations ahead of the opening of the Fifth Session of parliament. The NGC parliamentary representatives are: Mr. Foday Mario Kamara of Constituency 057 [Read More]

Politics & Law

Dr Sylvia Blyden challenges Sierra Leone elections results at the Supreme Court

April 10, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 19

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2018: Last Sunday, both the newly elected president Julius Maada Bio and the defeated APC candidate – Dr Samura Kamara who had threatened to challenge the presidential runoff result, attended mass at their local catholic church. It is said that, it is by divine intervention [Read More]

Politics & Law

President Maada Bio of Sierra Leone gets tough with lazy and corrupt public servants

April 9, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 April 2018: Newly elected president of Sierra Leone – Julius Maada Bio has read the proverbial Riot Act to public sector workers, including top civil servants in the country. He has told them to either join him in delivering his promise to the people to make [Read More]

Politics & Law

Why the Sierra Leone election was lost by APC after ten years of governance

April 9, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Author: Yusuf Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 April 2018: The March 31st, 2018, presidential run-off election was an amazingly close race. The result has left the All People’s Congress party (APC) quite humbled. Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) emerged victorious with 51.8% of the votes,. [Read More]

Dr. Sama Banya - Puawui

Dr Sama Banya (Puawui) congratulates president Bio – reflecting on a difficult journey  

April 8, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 7

Puawui (Dr. Sama Banya): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 April 2018: The dust is yet to settle as the whole of Sierra Leone continues to be gripped by the SLPP’s spectacular success at the polls.  Many are still getting used to saying: ‘President Julius Maada Bio – president of Sierra Leone’. [Read More]

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