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New Minister of Local Government Tamba Lamina takes oath of office

July 10, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 July 2019: Tamba Lamina, who until a few weeks ago was serving in London as Sierra Leone’s High Commissioner to the UK, yesterday took his oath of office – in the presence of president Julius Maada Bio at State House in Freetown, as the government’s new [Read More]

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Yumkella and his fellow NGC parliamentarians are leading by example

July 10, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 July 2019: In the past three weeks, NGC Parliamentarians representing Kambia District, led by Dr Kandeh Yumkella of Constituency 062, Samu Chiefdom, have embarked on several development projects in Brimaya, Khonimaha, Bamoi Luna and Mambolo in Kambia. In a coordinated joint effort with his colleagues, Foday [Read More]

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The making of the APC Party Constitution 2019 – The choice to choose our leaders

July 9, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 7

Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 July 2019: The leitmotiv of making Constitutions belies in the Rule of Law. This concept, having been refined in its modern formulation by Albert Venn Dicey, is at the heart of law and order in all societies that strive for democracy and respect [Read More]

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President Bio pays millions of dollars to former president and senior government officials

July 6, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 23

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 July 2019: Former president Koroma, former vice president, ministers and senior officials of the previous APC government have today received an inflation bursting windfall from president Julius Maada Bio, amounting to millions of dollars. This massive windfall is in lieu of their end of service benefits [Read More]

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Politics at the Bar – Sierra Leone’s legal profession in the 21st century – the way forward

July 6, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 July 2019: As we move through the second decade of the twenty-first century, the legal profession in our beloved Sierra Leone confronts a confluence of pressures and realities that have the potential to greatly change how law is practiced at all levels [Read More]

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One woman’s plea for justice in Sierra Leone – Is anyone listening?

July 4, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 12

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 July 2019: Hariyatu Bangura is a young woman in Sierra Leone, fighting for justice, after her parliamentary seat won at the hotly contested general elections held in the country in March last year to represent her local constituency 116, was unconstitutionally taken away from her, and [Read More]

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Sierra Leone punching above its weight at ECOWAS

July 1, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 July 2019: Sierra Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio last Saturday, called on fellow heads of state from the West African region to take strong measures to tackle corruption in the region’s representative body – ECOWAS. Since coming to power over a year ago, president Bio has [Read More]

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Sierra Leone’s Fourth Estate – the media under attack

June 30, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Pastor Mohamed Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 June 2019: What transpired at Magistrate Court Number 2 in Freetown last Friday, 28th June 2019, in front of Inquiring Magistrate Mark Ngegba, can be safely described as a conspiracy of sorts between his Bench and the Bar against the Fourth Estate in [Read More]

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Former president Koroma raises peace stakes in Sierra Leone

June 28, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 13

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 June 2019: There are continuous and sustained calls for the former president of Sierra Leone – Ernest Bai Koroma, to step down from active politics. But the president and his supporters say he is going nowhere. Critics say that he needs to make way for a [Read More]

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