17 September 2012 The decision of Sierra Leone’s National Electoral Commission to raise the nomination fees for the forthcoming elections, had sent alarm bells across the sub-region; sparking fears of political instability, should opposition parties be denied the right to participate on grounds of affordability. The decision to increase the [Read More]
16 September 2012 When the vice president of Sierra Leone – Sam Sumana called a press conference in Freetown a few weeks ago to deny allegations of impropriety and corruption, many listening to what he had to say, felt that he had not done enough to lay to bed the [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon 11 September 2012 For many years now, Sierra Leone has been like a boxer, coming round after a sniff of smelling salt, with half-remembered taste, smell and sound of the day before yesterday. But apart from the adulation of mediocrity, clannishness, ethnocentricity and other retrogressive tendencies that [Read More]
Alhaji Kallon: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2012: During the inauguration of President Koroma in late 2007, the organisers of the show and the newly elected president Koroma, did not allow President Kabba to read his handing over notes. Was this action of the APC due to the fact that they [Read More]
4 September 2012 “We have transferred billions of Leones to the Kenema city and district council to develop Kenema,” president Koroma said during the opening of the much publicised new Kenema shopping centre last Friday. He was responding to accusations that his government has done very little to invest and [Read More]
Ernest Smith 30 August 2012 As President Koroma remains unmoved by the latest cash for political favour scandal, his Vice President is hoping that the fiasco would go away soon. But international publicity intensifies. In the latest issue of Africa Confidential – the world’s leading fortnightly bulletin on African politics, [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon 28 August 2012 Why is blowing the trumpets and beating the drums of our political realities not at the epicentre of political discussions today, less than a hundred days to national polls? When the populace do not even know that they have a right to certain necessities [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 28 August 2012 I recall the events of that Wednesday morning, when the continuous sound of gunfire reached me as I sat in my Wilberforce Street surgery (now housing GT bank), awaiting the arrival of my staff and patients. It was later followed by a government statement [Read More]
Abdul R Thomas 24 August 2012 The government of Sierra Leone announced this week that it has allocated over Le3.5 Billion to eight Local Councils, which ministers say is for the for the delivery of devolved services in the period – April to June 2012. The current outbreak of cholera [Read More]
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