Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 June 2018: Last week was a busy schedule for Sierra Leone’s head of the National Commission for Privatisation – Mr. Umaru Napoleon Koroma, who visited the Lungi International Airport and the Water Quay seaport in Freetown, to gain full insight into how they are both being [Read More]
Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 June 2018: So much has happened in the political landscape over the last week, with political party apparatchiks trading accusations, that one ought to take a cooler and accentuate the positive. The idea for this piece came to me after I preached a sermon [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 June 2018: President Julius Maada Bio has appointed a new head of the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), after revoking the contract of Mr. Ady Macauley as Commissioner with immediate effect. Macauley was appointed to head the ACC by former president Ernest Bai Koroma in March 2016. [Read More]
Amin Kef: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 June 2018: When the former government and Parliament of Sierra Leone decided to pass into law the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Finance Acts that specifically insisted on enforcing the country’s Local Content Policy, it was because this policy was established to boost the economy. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 June 2018: The Freetown City Council (FCC) yesterday reported it has started implementing its flood mitigation plan, designed to reduce flooding in the city and reduce humanitarian, health and economic impact on residents, as the rainy season sets in. Sierra Leone, the council says, is noted [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 June 2018: There are growing calls for president Bio of Sierra Leone to publish the contents of a report produced by a government governance committee that he established, just weeks after he was elected in March 2018. The Governance Transition Committee which is chaired by the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2018: One serious criticism that was constantly levied at former president Koroma was his huge appetite for signing MoUs (memorandum of understanding) that yielded very little for the country. And now it seems the newly elected president Julius Maada Bio cannot resist the virus. There [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 June 2018: Just few days ago, the funeral of journalist Ibrahim Samura, who died in hospital in Freetown last week – allegedly as a result of injuries sustained in a violent attack during the recent elections, was held amidst controversy as to who is responsible for [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2018: Sierra Leone’s economic activity has picked up since elections in March 2018, says the IMF. But the newly elected government of president Julius Maada Bio is running the country’s finances on a shoestring budget, mainly cutting back on spending in some areas of expenditure [Read More]
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