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]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 March 2020: The Executive Director of the Citizens Advocacy Network (CAN), Thomas Moore Conteh and forty students of the Limkokwing University, have today been arrested and detained without charge by the Sierra Leone Police in Freetown. They were arrested whilst on a peaceful procession, calling on [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 February 2020: Speaker of Sierra Leone’s Parliament – Dr. Abass Bundu has summoned the Director General of the National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA) – Mr. Mohamed Massaquoi to appear before members of parliament to justify his public notice published last week, threatening citizens to register with [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2020 Five hundred young people from across the Commonwealth will have the opportunity to confront some of the biggest challenges facing the world at the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) in Rwanda. The Commonwealth Youth Forum will be held in Kigali from 20 [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2020: A controversial decision by the Bio-led SLPP government to empower the National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA) to register every citizen living in the country by the end of March 2020 so as to be able to vote at public elections, has drawn fierce criticisms [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2020: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), on Monday 24th February, 2020, charged Komboh Kamara – a former ruling APC party member of Parliament, residing at 5 Carlos Drive, Goderich, Freetown to court for corruption. He has been charged with twenty-four counts of corruption offences, relating [Read More]
President Dr Julius Maada Bio today delivered an opening address at the government’s first-ever Presidential Seminar for all 83 heads of commissions, parastatals, agencies and state-owned enterprises at the Bintumani Conference Centre in Aberdeen, Freetown. The theme of the seminar is “Consolidating the Foundation for Service Delivery”, and is designed [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 February 2020: The National Coordinator of the Network of Ex-Asylum Seekers – Mr Abdulai Daramy, today urged the government of Sierra Leone to resist the arbitrary deportation of ex-asylum seekers and refugees from the United States of America (USA) and some European countries to Sierra Leone. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 February 2020: President Dr Julius Maada Bio, who is also the Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone (USL), yesterday urged thousands of young graduands of the university to become the entrepreneurs who will pioneer innovative local solutions that meet the needs of Sierra Leone and [Read More]
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