Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 February 2021: Last Monday,  the Mayor of Freetown – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, hosted a sanitation symposium which was attended by over 50 participants in person and via zoom, representing central government, international development partners, donors, private sector organisations, FCC sanitation department and the FCC sanitation committee. The [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 February 2021: President Dr Julius Maada Bio yesterday received the 2019-2020 annual report of the country’s Ombudsman – Leon Jenkins-Johnston. Assuring the Ombudsman of his support for the Ombudsman office and its independence, president Bio said: “My government has supported the legal right to government information, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 February 2021: President Dr Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone yesterday gave awards to three “top-performing ministries”, at the inaugural Presidential Award ceremony at State House. The controversial Presidential Award was given to the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, the Ministry of Finance, and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 February 2021: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) last Tuesday, filed an indictment against Julian Clarke, Human Resource Manager at the country’s Civil Aviation Authority (SLCAA), along with Sallieu Kargbo, Senior Finance Officer at SLCAA – both resident of Freetown, on a total of nine counts of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 February 2021: As the people of Sierra Leone begin to come to terms with the twin shocks of the Auditor General’s Report and the scandalous revelations of reckless misappropriation of public funds under the Bio-led government, published by the investigative journalist – Chernor Bah, now comes [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 February 2021: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today published a notice, reminding Public Officials, especially those who have left office either by way of resignation, end of contract, dismissal, retirement or otherwise, that they are to submit to the Commission an Exit Declaration Form as provided [Read More]

Cornelius Oguntola Melvin Deveaux: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 February 2021: Sierra Leone’s main opposition All Peoples Congress is sadly caught up in a complexity of setbacks which are seriously limiting the partys ability to cement the blocks of the foundation of that nation we seek to build on the principles [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2021: The future of Sierra Leone’s main opposition All People’s Party (APC) is looking bleak by the day, as questions are being asked about whether it will have the legal authority to hold its national convention in a few months, amid battle to overturn a [Read More]

Basita Michael: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 January 2021: Diamonds are forever, but constitutions are not. No Constitution is meant to last in perpetuity. That is probably why Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison in 1789 and said, “…it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution or [Read More]