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Dr. Sama Banya - Puawui

The ministry and Ebola-panic and despair?

Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 June 2014 I have attended only one government briefing session, since the whole Ebola story hit the headlines, beginning with the Guinea outbreak. The session was for private practitioners, meaning non-governmental ministry of health institutions and personnel. I had underrated [Read More]

Dr. Sama Banya - Puawui

Kenema’s ugly showpiece

Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 June 2014 I am seated in Fokai Demby’s delightful Kamboi Complex, along Kenema’s co-busiest thoroughfare as I watch motorists, bike riders and pedestrians struggling to avoid the bad patch at the Capitol-Reservation roundabout. The visitor driving into Kenema city over [Read More]

Dr. Sama Banya - Puawui

Farewell teacher C. R. Cole

Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 June 2014 There was near crisis in Bo school in 1946, barely three months to the Cambridge School Certificate Examination, which back then was the equivalent of today’s West African School Certificate Examination. Teacher L. J. Pratt, who had almost [Read More]

Dr. Sama Banya - Puawui

Puawui at State House

Dr. Sama Banya The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 May 2014 My last visit to State House was not one that I cared to remember. The then minister of information and communication, himself a former journalist and the erstwhile president of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) – Alhaji Ibrahim [Read More]