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Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 July 2017 The Parliament of Sierra Leone yesterday Wednesday, 5th July 2017, enacted a Bill entitled “The Citizenship Amendment Act 2017”. The aim of the Bill is to amend the Citizenship Act of 1973, to recognise the right to citizenship of children born to Sierra Leonean [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 June 2017 Today was another day for me to thank the Almighty for ensuring that I was born in Sierra Leone, one of the most beautiful countries in the world with many lovely aspects its citizens can boast of. One such attribute is that in a [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 June 2017 Brothers and sisters, I greet you all in the name of Allah the Benevolent, the Gracious and the most Merciful. On behalf of my family, the UKI Executive and general membership of the SLPP across the globe, I would like to wish everyone the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 June 2017 Fellow Sierra Leoneans, as we mark yet another blissful day in the Islamic calendar, let me take this opportunity to thank Allah for His great bounty and unlimited Grace, and to wish everyone a glorious Eid Mubarak. As a country we will always consider [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 June 2017 Millions of dollars are being spent every year by Africans – both men and women, on chemicals made to lighten the skin, despite warnings about the terrible health consequences. But little is said about the psychological self-harm of skin bleaching in Africa. Writing in [Read More]

Sierra Lone Telegraph: 13 June 2017 Sierra Leone’s minister of social welfare, gender and children’s affairs –  Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden  is in New York, attending the Tenth Session of the Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Addressing the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2017 Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Czar has confirmed the arrest of three West African Examination Council (WAEC)  examiners for alleged corruption offences, involving examination malpractice. Examination fraud and related illegal activities is a big business in Sierra Leone, controlled and managed by organized criminals. Many of [Read More]

By a Special Reporter Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 June 2017 The Ombudsman of Sierra Leone – Mr Melron Nicol-Wilson, has recruited three female graduates from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone to serve as Mediation Officers, as part of efforts to deliver his 100-days Action Plan. The three graduates [Read More]

Sahr Philie Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 June 2017 J.B.Dauda aka ‘Jam Body for Development (JBD)’ led a very successful political life, albeit in our murky political scene in Sierra Leone. And I am seized of the need to write something about this industrious son of Kenema who has been called [Read More]