Puawui – Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2019: One of my friends of my Prince of Wales School days, the late Physician Cardiologist Dr Reginald (Reggie) Eleady-Cole and I sailed to Britain on the Elder Dempster passenger boat MV Aureole on 3rd October 1953. Oh the memory [Read More]
PUAWUI DR SAMA BANYA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 February 2019: “Why have you stopped writing Doctor? We are missing your column”. This is a question to which I have continued to give the same answer over the last five years, since I announced that I was laying down my pen, [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya (Puawui) The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2014 Since the unexpected passing away on September 4 of my wife Reverend Kadi Rosaline of 40 years, I have been overwhelmed by the amount of sympathy and condolences from hundreds of family members and friends at home and abroad. [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya (Puawui) The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 August 2014 The Ebola virus is a killer organism that has a notorious and awesome reputation of killing up to 90 percent of its victims. It knows no class, no tribe, regional, ethnic or other affiliation. (Photo: Spanish priest being airlifted [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2014 It must now be clear to everyone – sceptics included, that not only is the current Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, and come to think of it, with the current cases in Nigeria – one could say in [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 July 2014 Some years ago, I read a humorous story in a British newspaper about a New Zealander who had lived in Britain for many years, who then suddenly decided to return home. When asked about his reason for leaving [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 July 2014 On Saturday July 12, I could not make any calls nor send any text message through one of my service providers until early afternoon. As usual they provided no excuse for their failure, let alone offer apologies to users. When [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 July 2014 Some years back, there appeared in this column an article with the title; “when will they ever learn?” Today’s heading is a rearrangement of those words, because the question is now directed at all of us, and not [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 July 2014 I had written before that Teacher Olumbe Bassir taught biology and nature Studies from Prep to School Certificate level at Bo School. He left in September 1946 for the United Kingdom on a Nuffield scholarship, to pursue an [Read More]
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