Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 March 2019: Details about yesterday’s road accident in Rwanda involving three Sierra Leonean members of parliament remain sketchy. But it’s been reported this morning that the vehicle they were travelling in careered off the road into a ditch outside Rwanda’s capital Kigali. It has also been [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 March 2019: Sierra Leone’s main opposition All People’s Congress Party (APC) continues to embarrass itself with successive parliamentary gaffs, giving the ruling SLPP the much needed political space to get on with the business of governing a country that has been broken by ten years of [Read More]

Sorie Fofana: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 March 2019: As President of Sierra Leone and Leader of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) between 1995 and 2007, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah embraced all those who contested against him for the leadership of the Party in 1995. In fact, after emerging as Party [Read More]

Sorie-Sengbe Marrah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2019: I pored over Winstanley Bankole Johnson’s above-titled article interrupting my typically restful Sunday. I must admit that much as the article betrays expectations for substance, I must commend the writer, whose post-mayoral life is now spent on scholastic contribution to governance since [Read More]

Winstanley R Bankole Johnson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 March 2019: Parliamentarians are wont to shift blame for their enacting shoddy laws or for approving mediocre Presidential appointees to us the electorates. Their argument is that public input which is germane to their decision-making processes is non-existent, even though opportunities for [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 March 2019: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone is in the United Arab Emirates on a state visit and attending the Annual Global Education and Skills Forum. Arriving in Abu Dhabi yesterday, 21st March 2019, president Bio and his wife Mrs Fatima Bio and entourage [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 March 2019: After the unceremonious and unconstitutional sacking of vice president Sam Sumana in 2015 by president Ernest Bai Koroma with the help of the country’s Supreme Court Judges who endorsed his decision, many in Sierra Leone could not wait to see the backs of those [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2019: A high-level delegation from the West African Examination Council (WAEC) held a meeting at State House today, Wednesday 20 March 2019, with president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone to discuss the Council’s 67th Annual Meeting taking place in Freetown this week. Chairman of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2019: Mrs Fatima Maada Bio has been awarded Honorary Fellow of the West African College of Nursing, at the opening ceremony of the 15th Biennial General Meeting, 24th Scientific Session and the 39th Council Meeting of the West African College of Nursing, held at the [Read More]