Economy & Business

SLLCA ‘names and shames’ companies

Stephen V. Lansana: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 March 2023: Orange Sierra Leone, the China Railway Seventh Group (CRSG), Bintumani Hotel, Atlantic Hotel, and 12 other companies have breached the Sierra Leone Local Content Act 2016, the Director General of Sierra Leone Local Content Agency (SLLCA) said on Wednesday. Fodeba Daboh told a news conference [Read More]

Election Watch

Former president Koroma calls on opposition leaders in Nigeria’s presidential elections to take their concerns to the courts – not the streets

Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 March 2023: Head of the Economic Community of West African States Elections Observer Mission (ECOWASEOM) to Nigeria – former Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma, and the head of the African Union Elections Observer Mission (AUEOM), former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, yesterday held [Read More]

Election Watch

APC Bola Tinubu declared winner of Nigeria’s Presidential election amid angry protest by opposition

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 March 2023: Bola Tinubu – the presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC) party has been declared the winner of Nigeria’s closest presidential election since the country’s return to democracy in 1999, after decades of military interegnum. Tinubu won 8.8 million votes against the People’s [Read More]

Politics & Law

ECOWAS Election Observer Mission ends observation mandate – now the task of preventive diplomacy begins

Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2023: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) mandate of elections observation in Nigeria ended yesterday, after closing of polls. And now the hard task of conducting “Preventive Diplomacy” has started, led by Sierra Leone’s former president Ernest Bai Koroma. This [Read More]