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BBC News in Africa increases reach to 132 million people a week

July 25, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 July 2020: The BBC’s global reach increased by 11% year on year in 2020 to 468.2m people a week – the highest number ever. BBC News in Africa has had an impressive year and now reaches 132 million people a week across 12 language services and [Read More]

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President Bio has spoken – No more kid glove

May 9, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 20

PUAWUI – Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 May 2020: Almost a year ago to the day, that is in May, 2019, I published an opinion in my Puawui column with the title, “When enough is enough- time to call the APC’s bluff.” The Sierra Leone Telegraph edition of [Read More]

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Oh SLPP – please stop the whimpering

December 12, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

SAMA BANYA (PUAWUI): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 December 2019: In Williamson’s “History of the British Empire” which was one of the Geography text books for the Cambridge School Certificate Examination of my time (1940 – 48). it is stated that the first set of European settlers in North America were [Read More]

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Rwanda was not a school picnic – lessons for Sierra Leone’s media

November 30, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 18

Puawui – Dr. Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 November 2019: I spend a lot of my leisure these days on Social Media, especially on  WhatsApp, where many of the posts are biased political innuendos depending on which party the subscriber supports. Other posts could quite frankly be described as [Read More]

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As it was in 2007 so it is in 2019 – APC at it again

November 15, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Puawui – Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 November 2019: Social media is currently agog with different opinions culminating from a communication addressed to the Chief Minister Prof. David Francis, on whether or not a bribe of $1.5 million was paid into his account by a mining company that [Read More]

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And the floodgates were opened – What a wet Friday

August 3, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Puawui – Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 August 2019: It rained for most of last week and I began to wonder whether nature had changed her mind so that we were now having the “Seven Days Rain” in late July rather than in its usual month of August. [Read More]

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Sierra Leone – the gathering storm?

May 30, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 9

Puawui Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2019: Much has been said and written about the quality of leadership of the late former President Ahmad Tejan-Kabbah. He had many virtues and left a legacy that is worthy of emulation. One was highlighted recently by the publisher of the [Read More]

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When SLAJ or IMC should lock the stable gates

May 18, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

PUAWUI- DR SAMA BANYA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2019: “My Lords, Ladies and gentlemen! And members of the fourth estate”. This statement is attributed to Edmund Burke who used it in 1787 in the House of Commons (Parliament) of Great Britain. Burke said that there were three estates of [Read More]

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Why do we need another Bintumani conference in Sierra Leone now?

May 16, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Puawui – Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2019: In my last Puawui column under the title “Crooked Thinking”, I stated that I was in agreement with APC’s “one drop” Mohamed Sankoh that we do not need a Bintumani conference now but added quickly that it was for [Read More]

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