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]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 March 2020: Mr Solomon Berewa – the former Vice President and Attorney General of Sierra Leone, serving the SLPP Tejan Kabbah government after the 2002 elections, passed away today at the Choithram Hospital in the country’s capital Freetown, aged 81. Solomon Berewa contested presidential election in [Read More]
Pa Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 February 2020: Chernor Ojuku Sesay was among five of us who returned home from overseas duty, having been sacked in 2018 as diplomats by the newly elected government of Sierra Leone. He was based at the Sierra Leone Embassy in Brussels, also covering [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 January 2020: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, issued a statement Sunday, regarding the world’s most successful and celebrated basketball player – Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash in California yesterday, along with his 13 year old daughter and six others. Forty-one years old Kobe Bryant [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 September 2019: The Speaker of Sierra Leone’s Parliament – Dr. Abass Chernor Bundu, yesterday Friday, 20th September 2019, announced in Parliament the sudden death of the former Clerk of Parliament – Ibrahim Sesay, who passed away on Thursday, 19th September 2019, in Freetown. Members of Parliament [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 September 2019: Robert Mugabe, the former president and architect of Zimbabwe’s independence has died, aged 95. Mugabe has been receiving treatment in a hospital in Singapore since April. Cause of death is uncertain, but according to family sources, the former president has been suffering from failing [Read More]
Yusuf Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 August 2019: Tuesday 27 August marked the 40th anniversary of the death of our father, Almamy Momoh Bangura. He died on 27 August 1979, two weeks before I took up a one year lectureship appointment at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. I had just [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 August 2019: The death is reported of Hadja Hawa Khadar Daramy, the wife of the late Honourable Dr Sheikh Batu Daramy, who was the first Financial Secretary of Sierra Leone and a Member of Parliament representing the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP). She passed away in [Read More]
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