Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 February 2019: Yesterday, Thursday 7 February 2019, president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, signed performance contract with each of his cabinet ministers, holding them accountable for the governance of their ministries and to ensure that key priorities laid down in his New Direction programme are [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 April 2014 Sierra Leone may have one of the lowest GDP per capita in the continent, yet it is governed by an unwieldy, largely self-serving and dysfunctional structure – made up of 28 ministries, along with a plethora of departments and agencies. After a decade [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 April 2024: No one in Sierra Leone takes the performance contracts signed by government ministers seriously anymore, after the failure of successive governments to transparently and honestly publish the annual performance of each ministry and their heads, to show how effectively public funds are being utilised, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 October 2019: The long-awaited ministerial performance report on the first twelve months of the Bio-led government of Sierra Leone was published last Monday, at a press conference in Freetown. With the majority of ministers scoring above fifty-percent, the report should no doubt make for comfortable reading [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 January 2019: Just weeks after naming his cabinet – June 2018, president Bio convened an away day retreat involving his ministers, top civil servants and heads of parastatals, to discuss his mission and plan ahead for the delivery of his government’s New Direction agenda. The aim [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2014 – This story was first published on 17 January 2013 Sierra Leone is in desperate need of cash – estimated at more than $1 billion to help rehabilitate its creaky drinking water supply system, electricity generating and distribution plants, drainage and waste management systems, [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2013 In less than ten days president Koroma is expected to officially launch his ‘Agenda for Prosperity’ for nationwide public consultation. He told ministers and heads of public agencies at a recent presidential retreat that; delivery of this new agenda cannot be allowed to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 April 2019: Exactly a year ago, president Julius Maada Bio took office after a nail-biting presidential election which saw his SLPP party winning State House, but failed to gain control of the country’s parliament. Twelve months on, there has been very little shift in general public [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2016 Few ministers, if any in Sierra Leone – including the president, have gone all out to ensure that as a matter of duty they routinely inform their paymaster the tax payer about their daily work activity. But as many Sierra Leoneans would admit, only [Read More]
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