Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon 25 July 2012 Sierra Leone’s 2012 elections are the final frontier for transcending the assumed limits of our fears and perceptions; our ethnic tendencies; our political prejudices. It is a new horizon awaiting. The message which each and every one of us should be passing on to [Read More]
24 July 2012 “We cannot categorically state that President Koroma was aware of Sam’s behaviour. Should Mr. Koroma have investigated Sam a little more before trusting him?” Those are the words of Mark Heiligman, the American businessman who accused the vice president of Sierra Leone – Sam Sumana of taking [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon 23 July 2012 Recently there was fury in some quarters, when rumours quoted a serving minister as saying that chicken was more expensive than a woman in Sierra Leone. But what struck me the most from the resultant rage, was the political ignorance of such a development. [Read More]
23 July 2012 The dust is yet to settle on the timbergate corruption affair in Freetown. A court case involving a business partner of the vice president, accused of taking bribe on behalf of the vice president, is ongoing. In a new scandal, the vice president is now being accused [Read More]
Abdul R Thomas 18 July 2012 With presidential and general elections in Sierra Leone just four months away, the main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples’ Party (SLPP), yesterday launched a national consultation and consensus building dialogue, at the Bank of Sierra Leone complex in Freetown. The party is hoping that this [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay – China 18 July 2012 Sierra Leone’s Foreign and Finance Ministers have arrived in Beijing, the Peoples Republic of China, along with senior officials to attend the 5th Ministerial Conference on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). Both Ministers – Joseph Bandabla Dauda, Foreign Affairs, and Dr. Samura Kamara, Finance [Read More]
Dennis Kabatto 12 July 2012 Many Anti-Corruption Commissions have been “set up to fail, however they could succeed if they were given the right mandate and the right powers. In many cases those elements were lacking,” said former Anti-Corruption Commissioner of Sierra Leone – Mr. Abdul Tejan-Cole. Tejan Cole addressed [Read More]
10 July 2012 Unconfirmed report says that auditors of the African Development Bank (ADB), which has loaned the government of president Koroma hundreds of millions of dollars for infrastructural development, have uncovered huge discrepancies in the accounts. It is understood that millions of dollars earmarked for capital projects, such as [Read More]
Abdul M Fatoma 5 July 2012 The culture of Political violence is not new to Sierra Leoneans. The country’s historical narrative – before and after 1977, and to date is characterised by politically motivated incidents of violence, torture, intimidation and false imprisonment. This culture of political violence is a gangrene [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph Reserves Copyright