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Dr. Blyden asks Supreme Court not to strike out her Petition against President Bio

February 21, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 7

Saffea Komba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 February 2021: Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden OOR, whilst addressing the Supreme Court in the matter of her Elections Petition case against the 2018 election of President Bio, has argued against the striking out of her Petition. Representing herself in person, she was speaking on [Read More]

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Rule of law and accountability – significance of joint letter signed by NGC and APC

February 19, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 16

Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 February 2021: Sierra Leone is at cross-roads. For the first time in recent memory the opposition leaders in Parliament are holding the Presidency to account. It seems Chernor Bah and his colleagues in the Africanist Press have caused a seismic shift in our polity, [Read More]

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US Ambassador says goodbye to Sierra Leone

February 19, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 10

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 February 2021: The outgoing United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone – Maria Brewer, has ended her mission in Sierra Leone. She was at Presidential Lodge in Freetown yesterday, where she met the country’s president – Dr Julius Maada Bio to say goodbye. Speaking to the president, [Read More]

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Madam Cassandra Garber admonishes Sierra Leone’s First Lady

February 18, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 30

Sierra Leone Telegraph 18 February 2021: It is not often that Madam (Canon) Cassandra Garber who is the President of the Krio Descendants Union of Sierra Leone and overseas, comments publicly on matters of State in Sierra Leone. But she has this week broken her silence to join the large [Read More]

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Presidents of Sierra Leone and Guinea sign communique after meeting in Conakry

February 16, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 February 2021: President Dr Julius Maada Bio has today concluded his two-day working visit to Conakry, Guinea where he and his Guinean counterpart signed an agreement to re-open the land border that has been closed since early last year. The communique states that: “Based on mutual [Read More]

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Sierra Leone government Chief Minister David Francis accused of massive corruption

February 15, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 38

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2021: US based Africanist Press Media has today published another seriously incriminating report about grand corruption in the Bio-led SLPP government of Sierra Leone, as the country’s anti-graft agency – the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), is accused of waging a selective war on corruption. The Report [Read More]

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Bank official sacked in Sierra Leone after harmless banter with wife of the president

February 14, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 18

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 February 2021: The Sierra Leone Telegraph has joined very loud calls in and outside of Sierra Leone for the reinstatement of a Union Trust Bank (UTB) employee – Mr. Garvyn Cole (Photo above), who was instantly dismissed last Thursday, after posting a message on the Facebook [Read More]

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New financing model to tackle water and sanitation challenges in Sierra Leone

February 13, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2021: Isatu Sesay, a resident of Kissy Brook in eastern Freetown, Sierra Leone, buys water daily from young men in the community who hawk five-gallon water jugs loaded on flatbed pushcarts. “We pay Le500 [USD .50 cents] for each five gallons of water,” [Read More]

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There is a time for every purpose under heaven

February 11, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 10

Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2021: In 2012, it was the time of Julius Maada Bio to petition election of Ernest Bai Koroma. Bio did not succeed. His petition was thrown out because of a technical mistake he made – he delayed to file within 7 [Read More]

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