Obituary

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 August 2020: In recent weeks, Sierra Leone has lost a few of its young and brilliant men and women, who died through non-COVID related illness, including the country’s Deputy High Commissioner to the UK – Mrs Agnes Dugba Macauley who was buried in Kono last week. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2020: The United Methodist Church Resident Bishop in Sierra Leone, Dr. John K. Yambasu, died yesterday morning in a road accident outside the capital Freetown. He is reported to have been on his way to Mile 91 to attend the funeral service of one of [Read More]

Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara (JFK): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2020: It is with deep sadness that we received news of the death of our Comrade and Colleague, Dr. Minkailu Bah, former Minister of Education, Science and Technology. The clutches of death have once again wrenched away a close friend. We [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2020: Dr. Minkailu Bah, who served as minister of education, science and technology in the APC government led by Ernest Bai Koroma,  passed away at his home in Magburaka, Tonkolili district in the early hours of this morning. Dr Bah also served as National Advisory [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 May 2020: The United Nations through its representative in Sierra Leone is calling for political dialogue between the government and opposition parties, following the killing of several prisoners at the country’s main prison in Freetown, as well as the arrest of opposition politicians. This call from [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 May 2020: Sierra Leone’s Deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland, Mrs Agnes Dugba Macauley has sadly passsed away in London this afternoon, after a short illness, senior officials at the High Commission confirmed to the Sierra Leone Telegraph this evening. Mrs Agnes Dugba [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 May 2020: Residents of Canning Town in East London, UK,  are shocked, scared and angered at the unfairness and senselessness of a knife crime which took the life of one of their own –  David Gomoh ,  a thriving young 24 year old man –  the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 April 2020: The sudden death is reported of Mrs. Georgiana Adekumbi Jestina Benedict (nee Grant) of 109 Leicester Rd, Freetown, Sierra Leone. She is aged 67 years. She passed away at home yesterday, 4th of April, 2020, after suffering a heart attack. Mrs. Benedict was a [Read More]

Prof. Dr. Eustace Palmer: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 March 2020: Professor Jones was a Sierra Leonean academic and literary critic known for his book Othello’s Countrymen: A Study of Africa in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. He was a former principal of Fourah Bay College. He died at 1am today, [Read More]