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Free education will be actualised under the New Direction – teachers union tells President Bio

July 17, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 July 2018: Last Friday 13 July, the Sierra Leone Teachers’ Union (SLTU), held a meeting at State House with  President Julius Maada Bio to endorse his government’s free education policy. President of the SLTU – Mohamed Sallieu Bangura, expressed hope in the success of the new [Read More]

Economy & Business

Mayor of Freetown calls on residents of the capital to pay their taxes

July 17, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 July 2018: The Mayor of Freetown – Mrs Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr yesterday went to State House to present the City Council’s newly designed local tax receipt to president Julius Maada Bio for endorsement. Presenting the newly designed receipt, the mayor called on all residents of Freetown to [Read More]

Politics & Law

Irish ambassador discusses with Sierra Leone minister of foreign affairs Alie Kabba

July 17, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 July 2018: Yesterday, 16 July, 2018, the Ambassador of Ireland resident in Sierra Leone – Catherine Campbell met with the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation – Alie Kabba at his Tower Hill office in Freetown. Ambassador Catherine Campbell said that her visit is  [Read More]

Economy & Business

Presidential rebuke for Sierra Leone’s ministers and public officials breaking traffic rules

July 17, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 July 2018: Sierra Leone is among the countries in West Africa with the highest road traffic accidents. Every month at least six people die on the country’s roads. The heavy cost of traffic congestion – caused by poorly and illegally parked vehicles, motorists habitually driving in [Read More]

Politics & Law

NGC Parliamentarians join UNFPA to mark World Population Day in Kambia

July 17, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Anthony Kamara Jnr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 July 2018: As part of its activities marking the 2018 World Population Day (#WPD2018), the Sierra Leone Country Office of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) yesterday hosted the first of a series of community events in districts with the lowest Contraceptives Prevalence Rates to [Read More]

Politics & Law

Corruption in Sierra Leone is everyone’s business

July 15, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 July 2018: The much vaunted and long awaited GTT report is out. In the meantime, we have seen a lot of political and social commentators take to the media, to express their views and rightly so. Some call it democracy and others settle for [Read More]

Politics & Law

President Bio makes further public appointments – out with the old – in with the new

July 15, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 July 2018: President Bio has been heavily criticised by the opposition APC for replacing dozens of senior public officials previously appointed by former president Koroma to serve in his government, many of whom are either card carriers of the APC party or patrons and financial and [Read More]

Politics & Law

President Bio’s government presenting its first 100 days performance in office

July 15, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 July 2018: There are mixed opinions about the performance of president Julius Maada Bio’s government, after one hundred days in office. While supporters of the government say that president Bio has performed remarkably well in its first one hundred days amidst difficult circumstances, especially after inheriting [Read More]

Economy & Business

Parliament unanimously approves president Bio’s government first budget

July 14, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 July 2018: On the eve of celebrating their first 100 days in office, president Julius Maada Bio and his ministers yesterday, Friday 13 July, scored a massive vote of confidence from MPs across the political divide, after finance minister Saffa had presented the government’s first budget [Read More]

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