Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 March 2021: Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, better known as Burna Boy, has just won a Grammy in the Best Global Music Album category. The Nigerian artist is one of Africa’s most successful artists. He hit the music scene in 2012, after releasing his debut album L.I.F.E. The [Read More]
Winstanley R. Bankole.Johnson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2021: The last few weeks have heralded a series of scathing, besmirching and wholesomely puerile media outbursts directed more particularly against the Auditor General Mrs. Lara Taylor-Pearce in particular, than the institution (Audit Services Sierra Leone – ASSL) from which she draws [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2021: Former President of Sierra Leone – Ernest Bai Koroma, last Thursday convened a second virtual Round Table meeting under the auspices of the Horasis Community. During the discussions, the former president and Sierra Leonean statesman re-echoed his calls for an African Engineering Peace Corps [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2021: Yesterday, BBC Radio 1Xtra launched Africa 360 – a week of specially curated content celebrating African music and culture. Africa 360 will guarantee a destination for good vibes, fun and high energy with exclusive live performances, special interviews, artist takeovers and brand-new mixes for [Read More]
Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden OOR: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 March 2021: One of the saddest outcomes of the RUF rebel war and ensuing civil strife is the re-writing of this country’s history. The narratives have been so twisted that I sometimes gasp in horror. Many of those who have pushed [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 March 2021: Editors of the Africanist Press – Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman have published another damning allegation of corruption and abuse of office at Sierra Leone’s National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT), where according to the editors – millions of dollars [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 March 2021: President Bio has this week sacked Joseph Sannoh who is one of the civil society activists brought into the public service, after he won presidential election in 2018 with the aim of helping to bring good governance into his government. There are reports of [Read More]
Hon Kandeh Yumkella MP: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 March 2021: The Audit Service Sierra Leone (ASSL) was created under Chapter VI, Section 119 of the 1991 Constitution to perform one basic function: promote accountability and good governance. However, to effectively “carry out audits on the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with [Read More]
Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 March 2021: Ibrahim Tawa Conteh, member of parliament representing Constituency 128, in the far West of Freetown, reacting to the recent findings of the ACC said yesterday that on the 22nd of February 2021, he received a signed copy of the Anti-Corruption Commission [Read More]
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