Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2020: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) last week announced that the High Court of Sierra Leone sitting in Freetown and presided over by Justice Miatta Samba, on 4th March 2020, convicted Alfred Kallon who is the first accused in the ongoing passport corruption trial involving several [Read More]
Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 March 2020: Can NATCOM – Sierra Leone’s mobile telephone regulator, seriously call on Africell mobile phone service provider to do more to tackle the current growing problem of “bill shock” that followed immediately NATCOM slammed a 90% tax on all mobile companies’ promotions? [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 March 2020: Yesterday, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) – Dr Akinwumi Adesina, held talks with Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio at State House, about the bank’s support for the country’s economic development, social progress and poverty reduction initiatives. Presenting the AfDB [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 March 2020: Abject poverty is rising fast in Sierra Leone, and it seems there is little hope of an economic resurgence anytime soon. When president Bio took office in April 2018, one of his first actions which many Sierra Leoneans applauded, was the investigation into the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2020: Sierra Leone’s Deputy Minister of Planning and Economic Development, Dr. Robert Chakanda, yesterday launched Action Aid’s Sierra Leone Affiliate Programme (AASL-AP) 2020 Plan and Budget at the Hill Valley Hotel in Freetown. The AASL-AP 2020 Plan and Budget is aimed at promoting the need [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 march 2020: The old adage – ‘what goes up must come down’ came true in Sierra Leone yesterday, when fuel suppliers in the country decided to reduce prices just weeks after they were increased. Yesterday’s drop in prices by an average Five Hundred Leones (Le500) per [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 March 2020: Electricity theft and non-payment of electricity bills by households and businesses, have for far too long been the main cause of poor levels of investments in the sector and the frequent electricity blackouts suffered across the country. But the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and the [Read More]
Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 March 2020: The swift departure of Penny Goldberg from the chief economist role at the World Bank is a good example of what can happen when the world of public officialdom and that of academia combine – or in this case, clash. Initially, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 March 2020: The governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone – Professor Kelfala Kallon yesterday announced a major shake-up of the country’s foreign exchange market, banning the buying and selling of foreign currencies by street vendors and all unlicensed agencies across the country. Anyone caught violating [Read More]
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