Politics & Law

Alhaji U. N’jai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 September 2019: What is happening today in South Africa with attacks on fellow Africans will have Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Steve Biko, Mangaliso Sobukwe, and Chris Hani turning in their graves. At the height of the anti- apartheid struggle in South Africa, [Read More]

Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon: 17 September 2019: It is slightly difficult to disentangle the signal from the cacophony on the socio-economic hardship and the guerrilla warfare of Sierra Leone’s politics. However, the predatory form of politics which stimulates its own spin and sound-bites is gradually taking over an entirely complex story [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2019: The Ombudsman of Sierra Leone – Mr. Leon Jenkins-Johnston and his team, will travel to various districts in the provinces, starting from tomorrow Tuesday, 17th September to Wednesday 25th September 2019. The purpose of the visit is to give opportunity to the people in [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2019: Sierra Leone’s modern day history will never be complete without a mention of our passing acquaintance with violence. But this is not to give the impression that we are a violent nation or people; nor is it aimed at minimising the effect [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2019: The Judiciary of Sierra Leone wishes to inform all litigants, witnesses, jurors and the general public about the events marking the opening of the 2019/2020 Judicial Year, as follows: On Monday 16th September 2019 – Civil Call Over of cases, marking the opening of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2019: Sierra Leone’s ruling SLPP party has won yesterday’s by-election in Falaba constituency 040, in the Koinadugu district, northern province of the country, according to provisional results released by the National Electoral Commission (NEC).. SLPP got 56.7% with 4,122 votes, and APC 40.3% with a [Read More]

Abdul Malik Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2019: Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has in a televised video message to Members of Parliament of the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS), aired at the Extra Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament currently ongoing in Monrovia, Liberia, endorsing [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 September 2019: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission’s Scorpion Squad, simultaneously struck two houses in Freetown today, where students who should have been in an official exams centre for their WASSCE exams, were surreptitiously taken by their teachers and supervisors to take the university entry exam. Acting on [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 September 2019: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone will tomorrow, Saturday 14th September 2019, attend the Extraordinary Summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which will take place in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. According [Read More]